GORGEOUS PLACES IN THE WORLD - AUSTRALIA

Australia is land and cynerīce þæs Sūðernan Healftryndles. Þæt rīce is ambihtlīce Australie Cyneƿise gehāten (on Nīƿenglisce hātte Commonwealth of Australia). Australia is se āna ƿorulddǣl þǣre ƿorulde þæt belimpeþ ānum rīce. Hit is þǣre ƿorulde se læsta ƿorulddǣl.

Australie nama is of þǣm Lǣdnum ƿordum Terra Australis Magna, þe mǣneþ 'Þæt Micele Sūþland' for þǣm þe in gēardagum hogde man ðe ðisse ƿorulde sūðdǣl belamp micelum uncūðum lande þǣm gēafon ƿitan þone naman Terra Australis Incognita.

Sēo Australie Cyneƿise is se Australie ƿorulddǣl, Tasmania sēo īeg, and maniga læssan īega in þǣm Indiscan Garsecge and þǣm Sericus Gārsecge.

Mā þonne 42,000 gēara habbaþ ealdinborene Australiaƿara geƿunod þæt Australisce land. Siþþan Australia ƿæs be aspyrgendum Niðerlendiscum scipmannum afunden in þǣm 1606. gēare[1], ƿæs Australie ēastdǣl in þǣm 1770. gēare be Grēatre Bretene becomen. Hit ƿæs ǣrest geseted be ƿītoferferung tō Nīƿra Sūþƿeala landbūnesse. Sēo ǣreste upgange ƿæs se 26. Æfterran Gēolan þæs 1788. gēares.

Þā hƿīle þe þæt hēafodgerīm ƿēox and nīƿa stōƿa ƿǣron aspyrgedon, þǣrbufan fīf selfƿealdendra cynehelmes landbūnessra ƿǣron uparǣred geond þæt þǣre 19. gēarhundred.