Worlds Village

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5000 miles of down under, wrong sided, driving in Australia

The world is is so big, and so vast. It’s so beautiful and so friendly. It’s so clear, and so free…
It has been said that the best things in life are for free, and I think that it’s true.

In nature we see high and spectacular mountains, like Himalayan mountains:

Mount Everest is one of the tallest mountains in the world. It is part of the Himalayan Mountains. They were formed in the last few million years. After the supercontinent of Laurasia broke up millions of years ago, India moved slowly north towards Asia and then crashed into it. The seabed between the two plates (the earth’s crust is divided into large areas of land called plates) was crumbled and pushed up on the northern rim of India to form mountains. These two plates of the earth’s crust are still moving, so the Himalayas are being pushed up higher.

Also there are strange formations like Ayers Rock:

Ayers Rock is one of the oldest rocks on Earth. It is located in Australia. “Uluru,” as Ayers Rock is called by Aborigines, is a sacred site for them. Aborigines have rights over Uluru. Uluru is in the middle of Simpson Desert. Aborigines think of it as a symbol of all creation. Uluru was formed over a period of about 500 million years, and it was created when sand piled up on the bottom of an ocean that once covered the middle of Australia. Over the years, wind and rain have beat at the rock.
Uluru is covered with caves. The aborigines believe these caves hold a spiritual significance. Along with caves, the sides of Uluru have many grooves, formed by rain running down its sides. There is a national park surrounding Uluru, called, Uluru National Park. This park is home to over 150 types of birds and 26 types of mammals.

Organisms that coexists and together create a formation that can be seen from space:

The Great Barrier Reef is actually a series of smaller reefs. Reefs form under water and can be made of coral, sand, or rock. The top of the reef sits about two to three feet below sea level. Coral reefs are found in warm, shallow, clean water. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef of all, stretching an amazing 1,250 miles, or 2,000 kilometers, across the blue of the ocean. It forms a natural break water between the strong waves of the Pacific and the coast of Australia. It’s location is in the Coral Sea, the area of the Pacific close to Australia’s northeastern coast. The waters around it cover roughly 80,000 square miles, or 208,000 kilometers, an area slightly smaller than the state of Minnesota.

The nature surprise us by it’s diversity. Let’s enumerate some interesting and beautiful places:
Europe: Dune of Pilat, Vatnajokull Glacier, Vatnajokull Glacier, Vatnajokull Glacier, Davolja Varos, Eisriesenwelt Cave, Azure Window, Jaegala Fall, Rock of Gibraltar, White Cliffs of Dover, Mont Blanc, Mount Etna, Blue Grotto, Matterhorn, Mount Olympus, Cliffs of Moher, Retezat Mountain.
Africa: Peak of the Furnace, Mount Kenya, Zuma Rock, Avenue of the Baobabs, Aldabra Atoll, Tsingy de Bemaraha, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti Migration, Mount Kilimanjaro, Sahara Desert, Red Sea Reef.
North America: Copper Canyon, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Arenal Volcano, Mount McKinley, Crystal Caves, Bay of Fundy, Everglades National Park, Yosemite National Park, Great Blue Hole, Redwood National Forest, Yellowstone National Park, Niagara Falls.

South Ameroca: El Tatio, Cotahuasi Canyon, Perito Moreno Glacier, Alpamayo Mountain, Huascaran National Park, Colca Canyon, Angel Falls, Iguazu Falls, Amazon Rainforest.
Asia: Mount Damavand, Huangshan Mountain, Guilin Mountains, K2, Ha Long Bay, Mount Fuji, Jeita Grotto, Cedars of Lebanon, Tubbataha Reef, Puerto Princesa, Chocolate Hills, Sundarbans Forest, Cox’s Bazar Beach, Dead Sea.
Oceania: Franz Josef Glacier, Marovo Lagoon, Bungle Bungles, McKenzie Falls, Pinnacles Desert, Ross Ice Shelf, Ayers Rock.

So, let us be happy and enjoy every part and every aspect of the world..

Discovery-Channel The World Is Just Awesome

Discovery Lyrics/The World is Just Awesome
I love the mountains
I love the clear blue skies
I love big bridges
I love when great whites fly
I love the whole world
And all its sights and sounds
Boom de yada, boom de yada
Boom de yada, boom de yada

I love the oceans
I love real dirty things
I love to go fast
I love Egyptian kings
I love the whole world
And all its craziness
Boom de yada, boom de yada
Boom de yada, boom de yada

I love tornadoes
I love arachnids
I love hot magma
I love the giant squids
I love the whole world
It’s such a brilliant place…
Boom de yada, boom de yada
Boom de yada, boom de yada

I’m doing a sort-of theoretical research proposal for my class tomorrow, and I chose the Australian Aborigines as a subject. However, I can’t seem to find any information on whether or not any of them are still truly hunter-gatherers.

How many Australian Aborigines are still ‘traditional’ hunter-gatherers? Any additional info would be incredibly useful.

In the spirit of Yahoo! Answers, this is due tomorrow. =)

Talk with elders gets attacker out of jail
A MAN who horrifically assaulted a teen girl has been freed from jail because he is an Aborigine.

Read more on News.com.au