When people think about Australia, they often think of the beach—surfing at Bondi, swimming at Cottesloe, boogie boarding at Rye, diving in the coral gardens of the Great Barrier Reef, or riding camels along Cable Beach, Broome, as the sun goes down. If they don't think about the beach, then it's the Red Centre that takes hold of the imagination—the famous monolith, Uluru, Alice Springs, or the wild beauty of Kakadu National Park to the north. But Australia has a significant and untameable high country where another set of Australian myths and traditions of Australian identity were born—the high country of the Snowy Mountains. This is the locale of Australia's most famous man of the mountains, 'The Man from Snowy River'. The Man from Snowy River is one of Australia's most famous poems written by one of Australia's most famous poets, Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson. The poem tells the story of a valuable horse which escapes and the princely sum offered by its owner for its safe return. All the riders in the area gather to pursue the wild bush horses and cut the valuable horse from the mob. But the country defeats them all, except for 'The Man from Snowy River'. His personal courage and skill has turned him into a legend. It is thought that Paterson based the character of The Man from Snowy River on Jack Riley from Corryong, although this is often disputed with the argument put that Paterson created a composite character from a number of people he met.

Guinness, whiskey and the most famous character must surely be St. Patrick (Irish born, English raised)

george w. bush, he's america's most famous clown :P

ma country has many things that can characterize it like mountain Kilimanjalo and others like full peace.

A country is not only a character or a single event, but my country has been characterized as having the smoothest coffee in the world, and its main character: JUÁN VALDÉS.