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GoogleAustralia was discovered by Captain Cook in the eighteenth century.It was mainly populated from Britain by convicts who were sent there by the British gevernment because the prisons in Britain were overcrowded . The Aborigines the people who lived in Australia before it was discovered by Captain Cook were very badly treated by the white immigrates.
In fact , many of them were killed.They are best known for the boomerang . The boomerang was invented by the Aborigines.
Australia is also well known for the animals that live there such as the kangaroo, the koala bear , the duck-billed platypus and others.
In Australia the Aborigines have special "songlines".These songlines are the paths of their ancestors who created the world by walking through the land and singing the names of everything they saw. By singing a name they created by object. The ancestors travelled all over Aostralia singing and naming objects.Each Aborigine has his personal songline but everybody shares their songs.Many Aborigines have walked from one coast to another.
