Australia

Australia, formerly known as the Antipodes, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It lies between the Indian and Pacific Ocean. The capital city of Australia is Canberra.

Magical Culture

Wagga Wagga is an inland city in Australia, New South Wales where Gilderoy Lockhart supposedly defeated the Wagga Wagga Werewolf.

Ministry of Magic

There is an Australian Ministry of Magic

Creatures

• Billywig (native)
• Antipodean Opaleye
• Matchback
• Grayskull

Kata Tjuta is a group of large, domed rock formations located southwest of Alice Springs, in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia.

During his travels to document magical creatures when he was writing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 1925-1926, Newt Scamander collected a Billywig in Kata Tjuta, during the month of November.

Quidditch

Quidditch was believed to have become popular in Australia in the 18th century. Because large parts of the Australian outback is remote and uninhabited, they made ideal locations for Quidditch pitches. Australia also has its own National Quidditch team and National Quidditch Stadium. The Australian Quidditch League also included teams from other countries of Oceania.

Australian, just like many other Antipodean Quidditch players, were characterised by their speed and showmanship. Two dominating teams had so much enmity to each other that a popular response to an unlikely claim or boast arose in Australian wizarding community: "Yeah, and I think I'll volunteer to ref the next Thunderer–Warrior game."

• Thundelarra Thunderers, a team having their home in Thundelarra, dominated the Australian Quidditch League.
• Wollongong Warriors

Thundelarra is a former pastoral lease (now operated as a conservation reserve) in Western Australia, situated about 300 miles north of Perth. It is the hometown of the Thundelarra Thunderers Quidditch team who live in a hidden wizard-only village similar to Hogsmeade.

At Absit Omen

• Margo Amherst is banned from playing darts there, reportedly
• Margo Amherst and Vincent Fournier travelled here professionally in July and August 2010[1] during the Dragon Epidemic
• Briar Cavanaugh lived here during the second Voldemort war as a child
• Nora Dobbins travelled here
• Cooper Evans travelled here
• Maxwell Macduff lived here
• Tanner Merriman was stationed here for a time
• Sky O'Connor travelled here
• Tara Sallow worked 12 years at the Australian Ministry of Magic as a Hitwix
• Sasha Snow travelled here
• Balfour Spectre came here to study the Antipodean Opaleye
• Pollux Thursby travelled here
• Wild Beings travelled here
• Wentworth & Sons Magical Menageries have a base here
• The Morgan family of Landis Morgan have branches here

Characters Born in Australia

• None known