Why are words upside down in Australia?

“Because the Queenslanders can’t spell b-e-e-r.” It’s a place that thinks metric — meters, liters, kilometers and all that. In Australia, a mile is the opposite sex from femile (and tiles are the opposite of heads).

What is upside down Australia?

Australia: the land down under, where things are different—mostly upside down and the wrong way around. The seasons, for example; spring is in October, Christmas is in midsummer, fall is in April, and winter is in July—you get the idea. They celebrate Christmas in July. There even are decorations up in some places.

Is it okay to call Australia Down Under?

According to Roger Ebert’s tongue-in-cheek Glossary of Movie Terms, the Down Under Rule: No film set in Australia is allowed to use the word Australia in its title where “Down Under” is an acceptable alternative.

Are people upside down in Southern Hemisphere?

It looks upside down because now your feet are pointed in the same direction (generally) as people in the southern hemisphere, and it’s backwards because YOU reversed left-and-right.

Are you upside down on the south pole?

Gravity is always pulling your whole body and everything around you in the direction of Earth’s core. Whether you are in Antarctica, at the equator, or anywhere else on Earth, if you’re upright with your feet on the ground, you feel (and you are) right-side up.

Is New Zealand upside down?

What they say turns out to be true: in New Zealand things really are upside down. This means you can eat your Christmas turkey on the beach but it also means you can spend a week of your summer vacation huddled by the fire.

What are the nicknames for Australia?

There are also a number of terms for Australia, such as: Aussie, Oz, Lucky Country, and land of the long weekend. Names for regions include: dead heart, top end, the mallee, and the mulga.

When was Australia called the land down under?

The Dutch were the earliest Europeans to land in Australia (1606). The British arrived soon after, and by 1788 the British had set up a penal colony here. It is possible that the location of the country to the extreme south of the southern hemisphere lent it the name “the land Down Under”.

Are you upside down in Antarctica?

Are the stars upside down in Australia?

“It depends upon where you’re located on Earth but generally the constellations we see in the Southern Hemisphere are rotated again by 180 degrees compared to the Northern Hemisphere,” says Clark. “In Australia, Orion’s leg and belt is commonly known as ‘The Saucepan’, as it looks like a big old cooking pot!”

Are you technically upside down in Antarctica?

Why don’t we fall from the South Pole?

A force called gravity is pulling you down towards the centre of the Earth. So we don’t fall off the Earth at the South Pole because gravity is pulling us down towards the centre of the Earth.