Australia is a wild and beautiful place, a land whose color palette of red outback sands and Technicolor reefs frames sophisticated
Australia is a continent and a state, surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Its major cities, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide, are located on the coast.
The capital, Canberra, however, is inland.
The country is famous for the Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, the vast desert area called the Outback and unique species of animals, such as kangaroos and platypus.
The country is home to a diversity of cultures, a result of its history of immigration.
Prior to 1850, Australia was dominated by Indigenous cultures.[368][369] Since then, Australian culture has primarily been a Western culture, strongly influenced by Anglo-Celtic settlers.
Other influences include Australian Aboriginal culture, the traditions brought to the country by waves of immigration from around the world, and the culture of the United States.
The cultural divergence and evolution that has occurred over the centuries since European settlement has resulted in a distinctive Australian culture.
