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Siddhanta Shiromani (Crown of treatises) is the major treatise of Indian mathematician Bhāskaracharya II. He wrote the Siddhanta Shiromani in 1150 when he was 36 years old. The work is composed in the Sanskrit Language in 1450 verses.

Eratosthenes calculated the actual circumference of the earth in the 3rd century CE. He was a Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet. His work is comparable to what is now known as the study of geography, and he introduced some of the terminology still used today.

Aryabhatta born in 476 AD and died in 550 AD, was a great mathematician and an astronomer. In the 5th century, he told that the earth is not stationary.

The first European to sight the Australian continent was Dutchman Willem Janszoon in 1606, along the coast of Cape York Peninsula. The Dutch mapped the northern coastline, referring to the continent as “New Holland".

Australia is the sixth largest country in the world by area and the largest country in Oceania, the largest borderless country, as well as the largest country wholly in the Southern hemisphere. The five largest countries are Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil. India is the Seventh largest country.

The smallest continent by land area is Australia with 9,008,000 (km2) which represents just 6% of the total land area in the world. The largest continent in the world is Asia.

The final constitutional ties between the United Kingdom and Australia ended in 1986 with the passing of the Australia Act 1986.

Australia became an independent nation on 1 January 1901 when the British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six Australian colonies to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia.