• No part of Australia is more than 1000 km from the ocean and a beach. (The point in the world that's the furthest from any ocean would be in China.)

• Australia has the world's largest cattle station (ranch). At 30,028 km2 it is almost the same size as Belgium.

• Population density in Australia is usually calculated in km2 per person, not people per km2.

• Australians have 380,000 m2 per person available. Yet well over 90% are cramming into our coastal cities. (Don't ask me why, I sure prefer it here in the Outback.)

• We call Australian's from Queensland "banana benders", and people from Western Australia "sandgropers".

• Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.

• The Great Barrier Reef has a mailbox. You can ferry out there and send a postcard, stamped with the only Great Barrier Reef stamp.

• The Australian Alps, or Snowy Mountains as they are also known, receive more snow than Switzerland.

• Melbourne has the second largest Greek population in the world, after Athens.