What is a coral reef made from?
Australia and the Pacific
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Australia is the world’s smallest
continent, but it is a huge country.
Most Australians live on the coast,
far from the vast, dusty deserts
that make up the outback.
Poisonous animals
More poisonous animals
live in Australia than
in any other country.
Cone shells
are sea snails
with deadly stings. The
venom causes suffocation.
Funnel-web spiders
have poisonous fangs.
One bite can be fatal.
The tiny
blue-ringed
octopus
can paralyse and
kill a person with its bite.
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Kalgoorlie
Albany
Fremantle
Geraldton
Port Hedland
Great white
shark
Boomerang
A
box jellyfish’s
sting
causes terrible pain that
lasts for weeks and can kill.
Taipans
are the world’s
deadliest snakes. A bite
can kill in 30 minutes.
Sea snake
venom can
kill a child, but bites from
these shy snakes are rare.
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platypus
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each of its back ankles.
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