求中英双语介绍澳大利亚的资料。

澳大利亚联邦（英语：Commonwealth of Australia；简称澳大利亚或澳洲）是全球面积第6大国家，也是大洋洲最大的国家。澳洲所在的大陆是地球上最小的一块大陆，通常也被称为澳洲、澳洲大陆或澳大利亚大陆。东南方是纽西兰、北方有巴布亚纽几内亚、西巴布亚和东帝汶，印度尼西亚位於澳洲的西北方。「澳洲」一词来自拉丁语中的「terra australis incognita」（「未知的南方大陆」）。

澳洲全国有多种自然景观，其中包括迷人的热带雨林，被称为「红色中央」的乾燥贫瘠的沙漠，白雪皑皑的山峰，绵羊遍野的牧场以及引人入胜的海滨，还有驰名遐迩的天然遗产大堡礁和乌卢鲁岭。此外，澳洲亦是在每年的世界最佳居住城市评选中，最多国内城市名列前茅的国家之一。

The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania and a number of other islands in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east.

The Australian mainland has been inhabited for more than 42,000 years by Indigenous Australians. After sporadic visits by fishermen from the north and by European explorers and merchan