Australian Geographic Explorers

20 MOST DANGEROUS AUSSIE THINGS

1 Bushfire

At least 800 people have been killed by bushfires in Australia since 1851, including 33 during the 2019-2020 Black Summer fires.

2 Inland taipan

This is the “world’s most venomous snake”, based on experiments with rodents in the 1970s, when the venom from one bite was found to be capable of killing a quarter of a million mice.

3 Coastal taipan

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