Ayers Rock is a red granite monolith, 859.53 metres above sea level. It is 8.85 kilometres in circumference, and is 347.3 metres above the plain. Wolf Creek, Western Australia, has the largest meteorite crater in Australia, measuring 853.44 metres in diameter and 61 metres deep. In 1854 a large meteorite was found at Cranbourne, Victoria, weighing more than 5 tons. The last tram ran in Sydney on 26 February 1961.
Trams still run in Melbourne.
The secret ballot box, the most prized symbol of democracy, was pioneered in Victoria in 1856. The highest recorded temperature of 53.1 C was at Cloncurry, Queensland, on 16 January 1889. The world's largest cattle station, 30,028.3km2, is almost the same size as Belgium. Of all coloured peoples, the Australian Aborigines are ethnologically most akin to Caucasians. The oldest skeleton found in Australia was at Lake Mungo in New South Wales.