Melbourne 1956 Olympics

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Melbourne 1956 Olympics
22 November - 8 December

• Famous tourist sites
• pictures of the famous tourist sites
• Languages spoken
• Money / Currency
• Cultural Activities
• Highlights of the Olympics when held in Melbourne

• Location
• Flag
• Population
• National dress
• Food
• Olympians

• Hi ! I am Ellie Schneider
• and this is my presentation on the 1956 Melbourne
  Olympic Games.
  
• I hope you enjoy!!
• I found my information through the Internet,
  Olympic books and in the Grolier Multimedia
  Encyclopedia.
  

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Location / Map

• In 1949 Melbourne was selected to host the 1956
  Olympic Games. Melbourne is the capital city of
  Victoria and when Melbourne was selected to host
  the games everyone was stunned. They got elected
  by only one-vote margin.
• Melbourne lies in the Southern Hemisphere which
  was only one of the problems of having it in
  Melbourne. The athletes from other countries had
  to gather themselves from one region to another.
  In previous Olympics this has never been a
  problem because it has always been held in the
  Northern Hemisphere.
• Melbourne is also the second largest city
  in Australia. Well in the end it was all fine and
  Melbourne held a great 1956 Olympics.

Melbourne
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Flag

• This is the Victorian flag.
• It consists of the Union Jack, five stars
  representing the southern cross and the St
  Edwards Crown.
  
• The five stars do not have the same amount of
  points. The five stars have names.
  
• The Alpha Crucis is the biggest of them all, it
  has eight points.
  
• The Beta Crucis and the Gamma Crucis have seven
  points.
  
• The Delta Crucis is the second smallest and has
  six points and the Epsilon Crucis is the smallest
  of them all and has five points.
  
• Well that is the Victorian flag.

The Victorian Flag
The Australian Flag
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Population
In Victoria there is an overall population of
around 4.7 million and in Melbourne there is 3/4
of this population, 3.4 million.
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National Dress
Like in most countries people dress in just the
normal tee-shirt and pants or skirt but there is
a national dress for each country. It might not
be the clothes you wear now a days. For instance
people around the world might think oh the
Australians run around in cow boy hats and
thongs when we all know that not even nearly all
of us do.(can you imagine).
boots
Old hat
New fashion
The old aussie fashion
New fashion
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Food
In Melbourne and all around Australia the
Australians eat many cultural foods such as the
Aussie Sunday barbie otherwise known as the
Australian B.B.Q. Also hamburgers, meat pies,
lots of meat and shrimp on the b.b.q (unless
youre a vegetarian), lamingtons, pavlova of
course just a usual sandwich and how can I forget
vegemite. Also who could forget the bottle of bee
r with your dinner and maybe after dinner a
coffee.Melbourne also eat a lot of cakes at the
usual coffee house. (yum yum)
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Olympians From Australia
In the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games there were
many Australian competitors. Some of them were
Hector Hogan 100 m running came third and
received a bronze medal, his time was 10.6
seconds. John Landy 1500 m running came third an
d received a bronze medal, his time was 3 minutes
and 42 seconds. Allen Laurence 10 000m running ca
me third and received a bronze medal, his time
was 28 minutes and 53.6 seconds.
Charles Porter high jump came second and
received a silver medal, his height was 2.10
metres.
In the women Betty Cuthbert running won gold in
the 100 m and gold in the 200 m. For the 100 m
her time was 11.5 seconds and in the 200 her time
was 23.4 seconds. Marlene Mathews running receive
d bronze in the 100 m and bronze in the 200 m.
Her time for the 100 m was 11.7 seconds and in
the 200 m it was 23.8seconds. Last but surely not
least is Murray Rose. He won three gold medals
in swimming. In swimming the famous Dawn Fraser w
on 2 gold medals and 1 silver.
Lorraine Crapp also won 2 gold medals and 1
silver in swimming. Australia was very proud of a
ll these competitors.
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Famous Tourist Sites

• In Melbourne there are many great tourist sites
  and lots to do.
  
• Some of these include The Queen Victoria
  markets, Melbourne Botanical Gardens, The
  Melbourne Zoo, Chapel Street (yummy coffee and
  cake), St Patricks Cathedral, The old Melbourne
  gaol used in the convict days, it held the famous
  Ned Kelly and 135 other criminals, of course the
  exhibition centres/building, the great shopping
  centres such as the block arcade, the Princess
  Theatre, of course Melbournes Parliament House
  and last the Flinders Railway Station.

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Pictures of Tourist Sites
Victorian Parliament house
The Block Arcade
Exhibition Centre
The Melbourne Cricket Ground
Flinders Railway Station
St Patricks Cathedral
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Languages spoken
In Melbourne(Australia) the language spoken is
English alongside the language of the Australian
immigrants.

This is a bit of wording which people think the
Australians use (not all of us do).
Gooday mate wanna join me well have shrimp on
the barbi and a bit of beer with it ok
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Money/currency
Since 1966 the money currency in Australia has
been dollars and cents. 100 cents to a dollar but
back in 1956 the money currency was much
different. The currency in 1956 included pounds,
shillings, pence and florins. 20 shillings 1 po
und 12 pence 1 shilling 2 shillings 1 florin
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Cultural Activities
In Melbourne and all around Australia people
occupy themselves by visiting Art Galleries, any
Galleries, Museums, Cinemas and theatres.They
watch sporting matches and concerts.Also going to
the University of Melbourne is a very popular
thing. There are also many festivals in Melbour
ne such as From the 9-12 of March Melbourne hold
s their Qantas Australian Grand Prix.
From the 10-13 of March Melbourne celebrates
their Moomba festival. From the 15-March Melbourn
e holds their Antipodes Festival 2000.
There is also the famous International Motor
Show. From the 17-March Melbourne holds their Foo
d and Wine Festival 2000. From the 23-March Melbo
urne holds their Queer Film and Video Festival.
From the 25-March Melbourne holds the Victorian
Heritage Festival/ their sporting heritage.
From the 30-March Melbourne holds their
International Comedy Festival.
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Highlights of the Olympics
The 1956 Olympics were a very special Olympics
for Australians and many other people. It was
the first Olympics to be held in the Southern
Hemisphere which was very exciting for the
people who live in the Southern Hemisphere and
Australia got the third most medals in the
Olympics. Australia received 35 medals. USSR
received the most medals.They received 98 medals.
USA came second and they received 74 medals.
The Australian athletes did excellently and
especially Murray Rose.
Murray Rose
Murray Rose
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The Melbourne Olympics
This is a little about the 1956 Melbourne Olympic
Games The Olympics were held through 22 November
to the 8 December. The 1956 Melbourne Olympics
were the first Olympic games to be held in the
Southern Hemisphere. There was a total of 3184
athletes 2813 of them were male and 371 of them
were female. There were 17 sports and 151
events. 67 countries competed.It was a very
successful Olympic Games.
This project was done by Ellie Schneider.