The document provides an overview of Australia's history and wildlife. It discusses how Australia was first inhabited over 40,000 years ago by Aboriginal peoples who arrived from Southeast Asia. Europeans first sighted Australia in 1606 and began exploring the country in the 1770s, with the British establishing a penal colony in New South Wales in 1788. Australia's unique wildlife is also summarized, which includes marsupials like kangaroos and monotremes like platypuses, as well as over 4,400 types of fish and 744 different lizard species.
4. GENERAL INFORMATION 80% of endemic species. Principal cause: Isolation Different ecosystems Problems: Human activity Introduction of non-native species.
5. ANIMALS Marsupials like Kangaroo. Monotremes like platypus. Poisonous animals. Reptiles, specially lizards with 744 different ones. 4400 different fishes.
