AUSTRALIA

SUNNY Australia has been on every front page this side of the world since Prince Harry, 34, and his new bride Meghan Markle, 37, landed there last week.

And while we may get a glimpse of the Aussie jungle thanks to I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and the occasional ogle at their cricket pitches during the Ashes, there’s plenty of stuff we don’t see or get to learn about the Lucky Country.

So here are 10 things you might not know about Down Under… AUSTRALIA has the longest fence in the world. The Dingo Fence was constructed in the 1880s, to keep their native dog species the Dingo out of the south- eastern part of the continent and away from sheep. It stretches 3,488 miles from South Australia along the Western border of New South Wales, into Queensland. THE Australian Alps – in the south- east of the country – receive more snowfall than Switzerland.

year, the Queensland city of Brisbane hosts the world championships of cockroach racing.

first police force was made up of the best behaved convicts. IN 1832, 300 female convicts mooned at the governor of Tasmania. It was said that in a “rare moment of collusion with the convict women, the ladies in the Governor’s party could not control their laughter.” THE vast country has three times more sheep than people. AMONG their strange creatures is the wombat, whose shit is cube shaped. The unusual poo helps the cuddly animals to mark their territory.

to Australia often fret about the country’s range of deadly spiders but there has only been one recorded death by spider since 1979, when a young man tragically died from a Redback bite in 2016 A SINGLE cattle ranch in South Australia is larger than the state of Israel. FORMER Prime Minister Bob Hawke set a world record in 1954 – when Aussie were known worldwide for the drinking – for sculling 2.5 pints of beer down his neck in 11 seconds. His beer drinking antics are so famous, he launched his own brewery last year.