Australia is known as the " lucky country . “ And while statistically Australians are n’t any luckier than anyone else , why break up hairs ? Here are a 6 examples of the Luck of the Aussies .
1. Bernhardt Otto Holtermann: Mining by Candlelight
Many prospectors come on Australia in the nineteenth century , looking for amber . Nobody , however , did quite as well as German - carry miner Bernhardt Holtermann and his business cooperator , Louis Beyer . excavation by candle flame outside Hill End in October 1872 , they struck a gold nugget nearly five feet high , weighing 235 kg ( 630 pounds ) , and worth about US$ 21,000 ( a lot of money in those days ) . At the clock time it was the existence ’s largest specimen of reef gold . They extracted the sway in one piece , and prepared to pose for pic , as thousands descended to the mountain to see " Holtermann ’s Nugget . “ While Holtermann regarded the nugget as his own , his company decline to sell it to him . Instead , the gargantuan nugget was crushed with other crystal , yielding about 93 kilo of atomic number 79 " “ intend that , even when his luck run out , he was still a favorable guy .
2. Jack Buntine: Dodging bullets for a smoke
3. Hugh Jackman: On the strength of a publicity photo
4. Ian Thorpe: Saved from 9/11, twice
5. Victoria Friend: 20 minutes from death
It hardly seems right when an stroke subsister is described as " lucky" , even if they ’ve just turn a loss friends or congeneric . But within those parameters , Victoria Friend was extremely prosperous . In 1999 , Friend survived a light gentle wind crash in the New South Wales bush . The same clash pour down her fiancà © , Geoff Henderson , and leave her lying alone for over 40 hr , with multiple fractures and severe burns to 40 pct of her body . After she was finally rescued , doctor enjoin that her full of life organs were shutting down , and that she would n’t have survived much longer . One doctor figure that she was a bare 20 minutes from death , and was deliver just in the nick of time . She briefly became a interior celebrity , praised for her amazing ability to survive .
6. Steven Bradbury: Happy to skate on thin ice
