一个远离世界的“最大岛屿,最小大陆”,于新千年的火红九月,上演了一幕令世界瞩目的盛典。 当我们的班机在广袤无垠的澳洲大陆上空鸟瞰时,最初印象是它的原始与自然,浩瀚的大海与连绵的山峦,青翠欲滴的地表中民居的一簇簇红瓦,宛如守林人的篝火,赫然入目。 澳大利亚在拉丁语中意为“南方大陆”,人类文明尚未发现这块大陆以前,就将这块未知的大陆以“南方之地”命名。1770年英国航海家詹 A “largest island, the smallest continent” far from the world, staged a spectacular event in the fiery new millennium in September. When our flight over the vast expanse of the Australian continent bird’s eye view, the initial impression is that its primitive and nature, the vast sea and rolling hills, lush green surface of the houses in a cluster of red tiles, like a ranger Bonfire, impressively into the head. Australia means “southern mainland” in Latin, and before this continent was discovered by human civilization, this unknown continent was named after “the land of the South.” 1770 British navigator jan