Australia Day – 26 January 2021
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet at Port Jackson in New South Wales, and the raising of the British flag at Sydney Cove by Arthur Phillip.
Today the search engine Google has shared an interactive Google doodle and sharing the importance of this day.
Also called Foundation Day, Survival Day, Invasion Day
Observed by : Australian citizens, residents and expatriates
Type : National
Significance : Date of landing of the First Fleet in Port Jackson in 1788
Observances : Family gatherings, fireworks, picnics and barbecues; parades; citizenship ceremonies; Australia Day honours; Australian of the Year presentation
Date : 26 January
Frequency : annual
Today’s Doodle knows January 26 by honoring Maria Island—a biodiverse protected State Reserve situated off the eastern coast of Tasmania.
The secluded haven is home to a unique collection of mammal, marine, and avian species, including one of Australia’s rarest birds: the endangered forty-spotted pardalote which is portrayed in the Doodle artwork.
Pardalotes are a family, Pardalotidae, of very small, brightly coloured birds inborn to Australia, with short tails, strong legs, and stubby blunt beaks. This family is composed of four species in one genus, Pardalotus, and several subspecies. The name originates from a Greek word meaning “spotted”. The family once contained numerous other species now divided into the family Acanthizidae.
Happy Australia Day 2021