Hi again! The updating is not on top but... Now I'm here! Today I'm going to tell a bit about the aborigines. Probably the most famous ethnical group in Australia.
For about 40 000 years, the aborigines lived in Australia all by themselves. They had their beliefs and knew how to survive. They were unaware of any other existents except their own until 17th and 18th centuries when other humans arrived. Offenders were shipped from England to Australia for a prison you'd built there as a punishment.
In the middle of the 19th century it was discovered that the land of Australia was hiding a lot of gold, so people raced there from all over the world. Especially from the US where the gold in California recently had run out. Back then the population raised up to 2 million people. Twice as much than before. Today the population in Australia is around 21 million people of which 400 000 are aborigines.
I've also found some information about the well known kangaroos (and got my suspicions about them confirmed). It actually exists more kangaroos today than 200 years ago. By estimate about 25 million. That's a lot of kangaroos! And they can all jump up to 9 metres!
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Hello Hanna!
SvaraRaderaI love that you post pictures! But I wondering what dance are they dancing on the 2:nd picture?!