Depends where in Australia. I live in the mountains with a very European type of climate with winter snow and mild summers. Yet, the population here is not densely populated either, and we like it this way. The main problem here is water security. That is the biggest threat to our future.
There is a place called Perisher Valley, where the elements can kill you, It is not in an area of particularly high pop density. will you die by. A/Heat exhaustion/dehydration B/Freeze to death under several feet of snow C/Burnt to death in a bush fire the answer Is B Perisher Valley is actually a ski resort high in the Australian Alps. It does get cold in Australia and winter sports are quite popular for those living in the SE corner of the Country.
As a Canadian, I fully understand the population density issues of our Australian Commonwealth cousins. Australian populations and cities hug the coastlines and the middle of the continent, of desert heat, could be considered inhospitable for humans to thrive. Canada, as an even larger country, has a small population of about 39 million people and 90 percent of the population lives within 200 miles of the U.S. border and up the east and west coasts less than 500 miles. Also the major population occupying 5 major cities. The Canadian north is also considered inhospitable for humans to thrive, except for the extreme hardy. The Canadian limitation is the short growing season or inability to grow crops and the extreme arctic cold. The Australian Outback and the Canadian North are both trying very hard to kill you.
As a transplanted American (white bloke "Septic tank Yank") I have driven a good 200,000 kms around the Great antipodean Lucky Country and still have a fascination with the place. No better landmass on Earth to get a reliable sleepable vehicle and go way off the grid, thanks to seemingly endless expanses of uninhabited land connected by a network of decent paved highways and drivable outback tracks. Months at a time with very little human contact can drive you a bit mad, so it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if it IS your thing - wow! Never actually alone when there are dozens of species of fantastic birds and feral mammals (dingoes, camels, donkeys, goats, and of course loads of roos and wallabies) and snakes and lizards and spiders, etc. Leaving the populated east coast and heading into the never never land is an intrepid adventure, so just make sure to have days worth of tinned and dried food reserves and a good 40 litres of drinkable water and a few jerry cans of petrol, not to mention ample spares for the vehicle. Then it's like being a ship on the ocean with no horizon or a land rover on the moon cut off from the world - perfect! Eventually you reach the other side along the Indian Ocean to find Australia's other cluster of humans, namely Perth, Fremantle, Bunbury, Busselton, Margaret River, etc. Most overseas visitors never get past the "boomerang coast" between Sydney and Cairns, but there is a lot to love about the western half of the country, and very very few other people to get in your way. But as per this video it's easy to see why almost no one lives in the middle part - hardly any drinkable water, barren soil, only a few good highways, and unless you bring a bunch of food with you you're limited to "roadhouse" stodge - week-old dried-up chook & chips and "Chiko Rolls" or meat pies on a tired heating rack, or you have to murder a goanna or brown snake for your supper. God's country indeed! ;-)
What are you talking about months and months with very little human contact? It only takes 3-5 days to drive from Sydney to Perth, east to west coast? and theres smaller cities and townships all along the way and petrol stations so much so that if you fill up at one petrol station you'll reach the next well before your tank is empty? Unless your planning to go into Central Aus and camp for a while you dont need to take jerry cans of petrol or food with you and even if you do camp in the most rural areas at most petrol station or shops would be 3-4hrs drive max? Its not really a never land even if you drive rural, those highways you mentioned all pass through areas, townships, small petrol stations, cities and shops. Anyone can check this out go onto Google maps or maps app and put Sydney NSW to Emerald QLD and zoom in you'll see along the way theres plenty of townships and places along the way, 3hrs drive apart at the most rural areas of the drive. for the NSW part, its town after town. If you drive from Sydney NSW to central QLD which takes 2 days of 12 hour driving sessions, you'll see plenty of cars and people along the way almost all the time, and at most go 3 hours before hitting another town or township. Even in the most rural of areas, theres shops and supermarkets or at least a cornerstore with food like a small supermarket. and even large townships with every large business and store you'd see in cities in the rural area (e.g Emerald QLD) You've either never actually been to Australia or driven, or you have and are lying and drastically overdramatising and exaggerating for a youtube comment lol
Australian here. This is a nice attempt, but clearly made by someone who doesn’t really understand this country or its history. Besides completely glossing over the 19th century, this video has some factual errors and significant omissions. I wouldn’t consider this video to be a good summary of Australia, and would advise people to look elsewhere.
I live right in the middle of Australia, beautiful desert country kinda similar to Nevada which I visited a few years ago and felt like home. Much rather live in the desert with Snakes and Spider swarms than in any crowded city!
We like it this way. We can breathe the fresh air. I'm Australian. Fighting bee's snakes and spiders is a bit scary. But we still love being here. The country is quiet and soothing, the ocean is beautiful. ❤😊
I think the lack of rain is more due to the altitude of Australia. It's basically a bowl shape - the centre is below sea level. Rain tends to fall mainly on mountainous areas.
that is certainly an explanation, however I agree with the presenter that Oz is just too close to the Antarctic which prevents ocean warming and no rain. The Ice caps are melting and the oceans are warming. I think this is already apparent with Oz greening in the most unusual places.
Only the lake Eyre basin is below sea level. The lack of inland rain is due to the continents geographic position in terms of latitude and its large east west land distribution in relation to that latitude. If you look at similar latitudes on other continents deserts are also found.
I think it's highly probable the Portuguese landed on Australia first but they definitely didn't stay. The amount of time they had East Timor and its close proximity would make it very possible
The Pope gave SA, NT & WA to the Portugese to explore and the 4 Eastern States to the Spanish in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494(?) They were fighting over the world. So he drew lines thru South America and that's why Brazil speaks Portuguese and the rest of South America speak Spanish. The border between SA and the NT was once a straight line of longitude common to Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. But Queensland "stole" a bit of the NT by pushing the line West. This longitudinal border was extrapolated to divide Irian Jaya, Portugal, and Papua Nui Guini for the Spanish. Thank the Pope for another stuff up
@@originalsusser haha well I'm Portuguese myself I have to agree with you. The English and even French handled their colonies much better than the Spanish or Portuguese. In my ideal world, Argentina and Uruguay would've been English colonies and probably be in a much better state than it is now.
In a book titled 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Gavin Menzies claims that in the 1420s several fleets of Chinese ships sailed around the world, making contact with many countries before Europeans explored them, including Australia which he claims that Zheng He, the great Chinese explorer, reached what is now Western Australia
You combine all the populations of those towns hundreds or thousands of kilometres apart it doesn’t even make a up a suburb in a major city. So yes it’s basically empty in the middle. The mine sites in the Pilbara are more populated the most towns outside of Newman, Port Hedland and some others
0:51 "The last populated frontier of the world". 60,000+ years of human settlement in this country, about 45,000 years before the Americas were discovered. This subject is very controversial in Australia, as this video talks about Australia being "discovered" by Portuguese, Dutch or Englishman. But it was discovered by very resourceful people thousands of years ago and are to this day the oldest living culture in the world.
This point annoyed me too. And the one about First Nations people hunting everything to extinction. It was the ending of the last ice age causing the climate to dry out that caused those extinctions.
It's true Koorie ppl arrived in Australia 60k yrs before any Europeans sailed by. They settled this land & thrived with their resourcefulness long before the first Englishman died here of starvation. Though climate change contributed to the extinction of megafauna, it wasn't helped by hunting by humans, as was the case throughout the rest of the world at the time
I'm aussie and it's dumb as well. However world history is Eurocentric so when they say discovered they mean discovered for Europe which they should say instead
@@originalsusser they also had wars, pillaged , raped , mass women and children were carried off in attacks, they were more than One Nation..... they were human and carried out just as many horrible things to themselves as the peoples of PNG do to this day
@@Quadrant14 everything you stated is true & facts I'm well aware of. These acts you mention occurred universally with every primitive culture the world over including Europe & Asia before any recorded history. It's part of the human condition
Australian here. When I first moved to the UK, I used to get really confused with how people in the UK would say "oh, I'm from XYZ town. It's a couple of villages over". But there would be NO urban separation between where we would currently be located, and the town or village they might be referring to.. It'd be built up continuous suburbia and settlement the whole way. Likewise, where London ends and where it begins is a somewhat arbitrary line on a map, but you potentially wouldn't know from driving through or walking that you'd passed OUT of Greater London based on any changes in buildings or whatever. In Australia, once you leave the outer extremities of the greater metropolitan edge of a city, you've REALLY left the city. Suburbia, buildings, shops, businesses and warehouses simply stop. And all that is left is the motorway or road you're driving on as it cut's through farmland or natural wilderness until you get to the next town along.Towns and cities in Australia are very visually obvious things. Islands of human infrastructure that are surrounded by natural landscape once you depart their extremities. In Europe, inner cities, suburbs, peripheral towns and villages all sort of morph into eachother. in a smooth, unbroken gradient of manmade buildings and human activity. There's no definitive "edge".
Indonesian sailor already discover the land long before any european or asian sailors discover it. But indonesian sailor are not interested to colonize it since there is people already live there, the aborigines. Instead indonesian sailor forming trade relations with the aborigines. Indonesian sailor selling them tools and manufactired food and goods while the aborigines selling indonesian sailor sea food, precious gem and local food
I don't know where you got this fictitious account from. Firstly, Indonesian sailors? Maybe fishermen! Selling them tools & manufactured food & goods? What tools, food & goods made in what factory? Aboriginals selling seafood, precious gems & local food! What local food? Precious gems from where? Seafood? remember they're likely fishermen, not sailors & sold with what currency... barter? If they were explorers, well, they would have settled, like they did in the rest of their archipelago. No! More likely, if sailing Indonesians saw Aboriginals, they would have seen proud men standing tall on the shore waving spears, boomerangs & clubbing sticks, etc & shit themselves & turned right around
@@originalsusser firstly. Do not see us indonesian to have the same colonialist mentality as westerners. Secondly, aborigines are not that backward as what you think. They already understand technology and trade, eventhough they don't know how money works. Every year the aborigines will go to the beach carrying goods like what i wrote above close to the beach waiting for indonesian sailor from makassar to arrive. Once the sailor arrive, the sailor will make temporary shelters and stay in northern australia until the monsoon chaned direction. While waiting, they will buy all goods the aborigines had collected before such as gem, animal skin, dried meat, local medicine and local food for the sailors to eat while waiting for monsson. In exchange the aborigines will get iron tools, clothings, local food from sulawesi, livestock and medicine from sulawesi. Trade relationship between makassar sailor with aborigines continued until late 1800's when colonial british government prohibit makassar sailor from entering australian coast and prohibiting them from interacting with the aborigines
@@originalsusser koorie live in the south eastern australia, while the aborigines that have contact with the makassar sailor are located in northern australia. Do you think australia is a tiny place so that koorie who native to new south wales and victoria know about makassar sailor?
The indigenous people actually weren’t hunter gatherers contrary to popular belief. They were smart enough to stay in a space of land but move around a little. Think of it as people who camp for a living
@@Uknow1997heheehthey managed land. Did burn offs and knew a lot about native plants and how to help wildlife boost. They would move fish stocks across hot country to different ponds. They were smarter then what they are credited for. They even had Australia mapped and put into different territories.
Funniest thing is people try speculate what they were when they are still doing the same stuff in aboriginal communities around Australia. Most are developed but there is still aboriginals living off the land the exact same way their ancestors have been for thousands of years.
I work FIFO in the remote north of Western Australian in the Pilbara, Yes it Hot - I just returned from a week of 40 degree C and it is only Springtime not Summer yet - I have international friends they are amazed that I will drive 380KM to the closest supermarket - shop then drive back to the mine site all in one day
@@danidejaneiro8378 have you ever seen a game. The ball to start with is leather not synthetic. The ground is 60 to 70% larger than a rugby ground. The ball has to be kicked or handballed not thrown. There are 4 goal posts at the end of afl ground not 2. Mid field players in Afl generally run around 15kms per game. The Afl ground is oval in shape not rectangular. Get your facts straight before you mouth off. I could go on for hours with how AFL is sooooooo different from rugby
@@danidejaneiro8378 Now you can't even put a proper English sentence together. You LACK of knowledge of Australia and it's No 1 football code is amazing. Rugby is a backward game, meaning every time a player wants to dispose of the ball to go forward the ball must go backwards. At least an Aussie Rules player can dispose of the ball in any direction. Just for your information today is Grand Final day in Aussie Rules with over 100k spectators at the MCG. Pre-game entertainment will be from KISS. You can keep sending your uneducated comments coming thru as I will never back down on my passion for Aussie Rules
It is NOT just the heat. The biggest problem is the lack of fertility of the soil and the extreme salinity. The land degradation that has already occurred has destroyed large tracts arable land. Unlike Europe, the land must be doused with large amounts of fertilizer and other chemicals to be marginally sustainable. There may be large amounts of land but the quality for farming is very suspect.
3:45 and also the fact that the main prevailing winds travel west, and there really isn’t anything stopping the winds traveling west deep into Australia untill you get to the Great Dividing Ranges. And to add again that every continent has a desert on its western coast. Or a dryer more arid climate.
Sydney and Melbourne are too large. There needs to be real attention to opening up more land in smaller towns and cities. This will hopefully stop the cities from being overcrowded while spreading out the population. Easily said than done. While many people work from home and work in the internet/software industries, they may be people that can actually afford to living in the larger cities. Whereas those that work at a workplace really need to live where the work is, in the larger cities. But its still a good goal to increase populations and opportunities in rural areas. Some states like WA and SA the population is largely based in the capital cities, and there is opportunity to avoid overcrowding and environmental issues. Vic and NSW have large regional areas that they can really work with to expand.
Australia is the greatest sporting nation in the world they just excell in whatever sports they play...... Hopefully one day i will get a chance to visit the great nation.......
There is massive amounts of land along the Great Diving Range which technically could be inhabited. Thankfully these areas are protected from development and are deemed National/State parks. They include rainforests and some fo the most beautiful examples of Australias flora and fauna. The Blue Mountains gets more snow then the Swiss Alps yet our ski fields are beautifully developed to preserve the local habitats
It's not just that Australia is a dry continent and has limited rainfall. It's also that the limited rainfall we get can be years and years between showers. This does not allow for a larger population as there would be years that cities and towns would be with very limited water or run out. It happens often that Australia's draughts lead to intense water rationing and water carting. You just can't have a bigger population with no water.
I like how at 1:00, he mentions remarkable animals, customs (shows what looks very much like a silhouette of a lamington, a cube of sponge cake, dipped in melted chocolate & rolled in desiccated coconut. A very typical Aussie treat. You non-Aussies don't know what you're missing. What a lil' ripper of a bewdy!), statistics & people. If he showed a lamington, he's obviously been here.
I live in Western Queensland very remote, water is one of our biggest problems, however all that land is usually cattle stations, sheep or cropping, mining. So if u look at the map it maybe void of people but it’s the biggest industry doing all the heavy lifting for the economy. Government is very reluctant to release more land for development (don’t worry we’ve tried to build more infrastructure) we are in the Chanel Country which is on top on the Great Artisan Basin (biggest underground water source) not many trees so we could build housing to relieve our massive housing problem. But no the government is determined to push everyone into the cities
your statement that Papua New Guinea split from Australia 50 to 65,000 years ago, didn't sound accurate to me. I researched it, and it actually was 52 to 65 Million Years Ago, that the split between the two occurred.
Loved the video. Even though never been there, Australia has always fascinated me. I read Bill Bryson's book "In a Sunburned Country" (as it was titled in America and Canada...was titled "Down Under" in Britain). I remember Mr. Bryson writing about the drive he took from Darwin to Alice Springs where the sun seemed to get larger and hotter the further south out of Darwin he traveled. I remember he talked about a place call the Devil's Marbles which, based on his description, seemed almost mythical. Mr. Bryson had stopped at a restaurant between Darwin and Alice Springs and had a steak as big as a baseball catcher's mit. Pico Iyer called Australia a British California. A friend of mine who lives in New York City said, after traveling there, Melbourne and Perth were his favorite cities. I also would love to check out the Bungle Bungles. Excellent content in your video. Thank you. P. S. From 8:38 to 9:01 in the video, the sound seemed to cut out.
Might want to include all Australias territories. Antarctic territory and Coral Sea Territory. Land borders with France, Norway, New Zealand and others. The continent was first mapped by its first inhabitants 10s of thousands of years ago through song lines.Long before any map of Europe existed.
I dare you to go to Sydney it is soooo hard to go anywhere but that is the norm for some of us and yes it rains a bit to much in the past years. I almost had to move because it was so flooded
I would dispute the amount of arable land in at least as much as its productivity. In parts of Java they manage to grow 4 rice crops a year and 3 is common. In most of Australia there is usually only a winter crop of grain and the tonnes per hectare is much lower. It should be noted that all cereal crops in Australia are grown with mechanised equipment whereas much of Java remains by hand.
another problem that im not sure u mentioned, is the government dont fund enough money to the country towns outside of the capitals. comparing the population of each state, about 90% live in the capital and the rest in small country towns scattered around. these country towns are only about at most 30,000 in population, going as low as 10-1000 people.
Why is it that I watched a film shot in Australia and they were wearing thick coats and when they breath you could see the visible gas coming out and they are acting as if they are feeling very cold? But this video suggests that it is very hot in Australia.. I feel confused..
Did you know that the Australian alps receive more snow than whole of Switzerland. And Melbourne, Canberra & Hobart reach sub zero temperatures during winter
Some people get this fact wrong namely being anti British and not into history. They focus on King George V declaring war on Germany for Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. But he consulted the prime ministers of these countries by telegraph and got their permission. When the British government declared war in 1914 they didn't consider what the dominions wanted. This doco is not perfect but is a lot better than others on the same subject. A big problem with youtube is the use of stock footage they get video like on subject they're talking about but it's the wrong location such as country, wrong period or look nothing like what they are narrating. This had a lot better images of Oz😂. We down under like to exaggerate how dangerous our wildlife is but if you look at the other continents everywhere have or had dangerous animals. Just aussie ones don't bother me except funnel webs.😢
I think the portuguese were the first to discover Australia. If you check Dutch and Portuguese history, it is much more interlined than you think. Everywhere the Portuguese went, the Dutch went a couple of decades later. Even trying to take some of portugals colonies, including brazil and macau. If you follow portugals pattern around the world, and follow the dutch, the dutch were following Portugal but the Australia part of the Portuguese history was not well documented, probably due to the "useless landscape" on the north west Australian border, they might have just thought that it was nothing but a wasteland. There has also been cannons found in australian coasts, dating back hundreds of years and had clear portuguese coat of arms markings.
The middle of Australia isn't barron and unhitablitable. Its just the European way of life doesn't know how to live of the land and as a aussie I can say it is beautiful
Fun fact: Australia grew by 3 times over a period of 75 years from a population of 8.6 million to today over 26 million people. At current trends it is estimated it will grow another 3 times during the next 7 decades, putting its population closer to 80 million by Australia's tricentenary anniversary. By the end of the century Australia highest population projections have it anywhere between 72 million to as high as 110 million. Another fun fact. Australia is 234 years old. When America was also around the same era in its colonisation period its population was also in the mid 20 millions. And look at it now. Both former British colonies.
Two glaring errors in this video. Anna Creek is referred to as a Station NOT a Ranch. Aussie Rules is absolutely NOTHING like Rugby. These sort of errors by non Australians really annoy Aussies
Every other European saw the great deserts of the western half of the country and said nope. The british who always arrived on the western side also said nope then went, lets check the otherside and went oh this is nice
i believe it was the dutch found australia a bit before the uk did, however the dutch found themselves on the north western part of australia, which looked like a wasteland, they called australia "new holland". and the uk did not map out australia, as far as i know, they were winging it when they travelled to the east side of australia with boats full of convicts, and landed at botany bay, in 1778.
The lack of rain is due to the latitude of Australia. You could not take an island of this size and shape and position it such it would get less rain than it does. It hogs the band of high pressure that in both hemispheres also causes the Nabimian deseret in Africa, the Sahara in Africa, and the arid south west corner of the USA plus Northern Mexico. Northern Australia just protrudes just into the hot wet tropical zone, and southern Australia just protrudes into the southern temperate zone. The east coast gets the benefit of the East Australian ocean current (think Nemo) which brings moist air down the coast from the tropics and keeps it wet, at least as far as the Great Dividing Range will let it. The centre is desert, and in between are the arable areas - large but low yielding compared to Europe or most of America. Also - Aussie rules is nothing like Rugby, just a similar ball. It is most similar to Gaelic football, played in Ireland.
Lots of errors in this video. For example, even if the total amount of arable land is greater than it’s SEA neighbours, the soil quality in the majority of Australia is very poor., particularly west of the GDR. This is due to lack of any volcanic or geological activity meaning there’s no refreshing of nutrients. Only parts of Victoria have they found evidence of previous volcanic activity. Also the distinct lack of fresh water which is also of unstable supply owing the weather patterns experienced.
NW Coast of Tasmania had plenty of volcanic activity, and is very fertile. Supplies vegetables to the Melbourne markets. But Tasmania is different geologically (and in other ways).
Australia has a variety of climate zones, but much of its landmass experiences arid, semi-arid, tropical, or Mediterranean climates. Countries with similar climates include those with large desert areas, tropical regions, or Mediterranean coasts. Here's a list of countries in comparable climate zones and their approximate population sizes: Saudi Arabia - 36 million, Egypt - 112 million, Algeria - 45 million, Sudan - 49 million, Iran - 89 million I think debunks your claim!
@@Yabois_no, it really wouldn’t. And by the time you make it “big enough” it would be so comically enormous as to probably bankrupt the entire global economy. There’s just no point.
@@Yabois_you have no idea how insanely hot it gets in the interior or that your river would built across some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth over a couple of thousand kilometres. It would also be ridiculously expensive running into the trillions of dollars to build
damned great country. as an australian with italian parentage, our remoteness and lack of a shared border is truly a blessing, especially when one is confronted with the disaster happening in europe. australia was also very economically prosperous and socially cohesive during the white australia policy, until it was dismantled by the corrupt labor government in the 1970s.
did the Dutch and Portuguese traded with the native Australians? if they did so they could have introduced agriculture and metal working before British colonisation
Hey, hey, hey!! They did not “discover” Australia. Please don’t write Australia’s ancient residents from the history books. Same goes for America (north and south). And I’m voting YES!
It was a discovery to the Europeans. Yes, Aboriginal people inhabited the country for a very long time, but the discovery itself refers to the Europeans discovering a land unknown to them.
As an Australian I would just like to say you cannot live in the vast majority of this country without water (most of the time there is none), shelter (none again) or without the support of the 1st nations people who do inhabit parts of it. We are white urban people who aeons ago lost the ability to survive the desert, jungle or even the open plains. All of which occur in Australia. We also like it just the way it is.
Symantics. I opened my freezer the other day and discovered I still had some ice cream. But I didn't make it and I certainly wasn't the first person to see it. 🙄
@@Dags470 Exactly! The Europeans came across a land and people unknown to them, therefore it was a discovery to them since the history here is told from a European standpoint. 😮💨
When the word discovered is used, it implies, this is the first time human eyes have seen this. Another thing to consider is this, let’s say a person from the jungle swam and then walked 300 miles and came across a modern City full of people, would that be considered a discovery in the World’s history books? Hahahaha!
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Let’s be real.. The population density is just because of the heat! ☀️ Right? 👀
It’s hot everywhere
Depends where in Australia. I live in the mountains with a very European type of climate with winter snow and mild summers. Yet, the population here is not densely populated either, and we like it this way. The main problem here is water security. That is the biggest threat to our future.
Water and services
There is a place called Perisher Valley, where the elements can kill you, It is not in an area of particularly high pop density. will you die by.
A/Heat exhaustion/dehydration
B/Freeze to death under several feet of snow
C/Burnt to death in a bush fire
the answer
Is B
Perisher Valley is actually a ski resort high in the Australian Alps. It does get cold in Australia and winter sports are quite popular for those living in the SE corner of the Country.
No way on earth is it ONLY heat. You seem to very ignorant to be doing a video about a country you know bugger all about.
As a Canadian, I fully understand the population density issues of our Australian Commonwealth cousins. Australian populations and cities hug the coastlines and the middle of the continent, of desert heat, could be considered inhospitable for humans to thrive. Canada, as an even larger country, has a small population of about 39 million people and 90 percent of the population lives within 200 miles of the U.S. border and up the east and west coasts less than 500 miles. Also the major population occupying 5 major cities. The Canadian north is also considered inhospitable for humans to thrive, except for the extreme hardy. The Canadian limitation is the short growing season or inability to grow crops and the extreme arctic cold. The Australian Outback and the Canadian North are both trying very hard to kill you.
LOL. Well put.
100% in agreement about the similarities between Canada and Australia.
I live in Australia that’s 100% true
Basically the people on the coast are afraid to move inland. Me I do not want to live near such people. I find them obnoxious.
@@basilpunton5702 There you go....another similarity. lol
As an australian, the outback of Australia can be calming even though it gets very hot
As Aussie my self I agree!
Congratulations guys for winning the world cup!!❤
American south west and Saudi is more desert 🏜️ than your outback.
@@dennis771 not talking about America mate
As a Namibian, I can relate to this. I see all too many similarities, and the peace and quiet I feel in our version of the outback is profound
As a transplanted American (white bloke "Septic tank Yank") I have driven a good 200,000 kms around the Great antipodean Lucky Country and still have a fascination with the place. No better landmass on Earth to get a reliable sleepable vehicle and go way off the grid, thanks to seemingly endless expanses of uninhabited land connected by a network of decent paved highways and drivable outback tracks. Months at a time with very little human contact can drive you a bit mad, so it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if it IS your thing - wow! Never actually alone when there are dozens of species of fantastic birds and feral mammals (dingoes, camels, donkeys, goats, and of course loads of roos and wallabies) and snakes and lizards and spiders, etc. Leaving the populated east coast and heading into the never never land is an intrepid adventure, so just make sure to have days worth of tinned and dried food reserves and a good 40 litres of drinkable water and a few jerry cans of petrol, not to mention ample spares for the vehicle. Then it's like being a ship on the ocean with no horizon or a land rover on the moon cut off from the world - perfect! Eventually you reach the other side along the Indian Ocean to find Australia's other cluster of humans, namely Perth, Fremantle, Bunbury, Busselton, Margaret River, etc. Most overseas visitors never get past the "boomerang coast" between Sydney and Cairns, but there is a lot to love about the western half of the country, and very very few other people to get in your way. But as per this video it's easy to see why almost no one lives in the middle part - hardly any drinkable water, barren soil, only a few good highways, and unless you bring a bunch of food with you you're limited to "roadhouse" stodge - week-old dried-up chook & chips and "Chiko Rolls" or meat pies on a tired heating rack, or you have to murder a goanna or brown snake for your supper. God's country indeed! ;-)
Wow! I think there are plenty of Aussies who could learn to appreciate their home a lot more from people like you.
You could always eat some roadkill or witchedygrubs
camping and offroading in straya is my thing.
Sure your not an Aussie? You sure would make an excellent honorary one, that's fair dinkum mate
What are you talking about months and months with very little human contact? It only takes 3-5 days to drive from Sydney to Perth, east to west coast? and theres smaller cities and townships all along the way and petrol stations so much so that if you fill up at one petrol station you'll reach the next well before your tank is empty? Unless your planning to go into Central Aus and camp for a while you dont need to take jerry cans of petrol or food with you and even if you do camp in the most rural areas at most petrol station or shops would be 3-4hrs drive max? Its not really a never land even if you drive rural, those highways you mentioned all pass through areas, townships, small petrol stations, cities and shops.
Anyone can check this out go onto Google maps or maps app and put Sydney NSW to Emerald QLD and zoom in you'll see along the way theres plenty of townships and places along the way, 3hrs drive apart at the most rural areas of the drive. for the NSW part, its town after town.
If you drive from Sydney NSW to central QLD which takes 2 days of 12 hour driving sessions, you'll see plenty of cars and people along the way almost all the time, and at most go 3 hours before hitting another town or township. Even in the most rural of areas, theres shops and supermarkets or at least a cornerstore with food like a small supermarket. and even large townships with every large business and store you'd see in cities in the rural area (e.g Emerald QLD)
You've either never actually been to Australia or driven, or you have and are lying and drastically overdramatising and exaggerating for a youtube comment lol
I lost the audio commentary when you started talking about WW2 8:39-9:03. It just plays the background music for me.
same here
@@NoManDetected same
Australian here. This is a nice attempt, but clearly made by someone who doesn’t really understand this country or its history. Besides completely glossing over the 19th century, this video has some factual errors and significant omissions. I wouldn’t consider this video to be a good summary of Australia, and would advise people to look elsewhere.
Australian here, nah, it checks out.
You mentioned everything EXCEPT the facts that are wrong in this video. How do you justify your statement?
This video adds new depth to the word shallow.
Nah you are just a racist convict
I live right in the middle of Australia, beautiful desert country kinda similar to Nevada which I visited a few years ago and felt like home. Much rather live in the desert with Snakes and Spider swarms than in any crowded city!
Alice Springs?
Plenty of 2 legged snakes in the cities
Its a barren wasteland
USA has large cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas with a similar climate to Alice.
Nothing beautiful about a desert
We like it this way. We can breathe the fresh air. I'm Australian. Fighting bee's snakes and spiders is a bit scary. But we still love being here. The country is quiet and soothing, the ocean is beautiful. ❤😊
Tf acting like Australia is the only place with bees 😂
Are snakes and spiders common in Australia?
@@bharath2508 never seen a snake in the wild, but I see a spider about once a week maybe that. And I live in the outback too
Your government is doing the opposite so you are losing the battle Karen
@@DIRTYPLACCY He didn't say bees, he said bee's snakes and spiders. Any bee that owns snakes and spiders seem pretty tough to me.😱
I think the lack of rain is more due to the altitude of Australia. It's basically a bowl shape - the centre is below sea level. Rain tends to fall mainly on mountainous areas.
that is certainly an explanation, however I agree with the presenter that Oz is just too close to the Antarctic which prevents ocean warming and no rain. The Ice caps are melting and the oceans are warming.
I think this is already apparent with Oz greening in the most unusual places.
Average altitude is about 30 metres greater then Europe.
The narrative is basically right.
Only the lake Eyre basin is below sea level. The lack of inland rain is due to the continents geographic position in terms of latitude and its large east west land distribution in relation to that latitude. If you look at similar latitudes on other continents deserts are also found.
It floods in the desert too. 😂 every year.
@@australiagreg3179 Australia is not THAT close to Antarctica!
I think it's highly probable the Portuguese landed on Australia first but they definitely didn't stay. The amount of time they had East Timor and its close proximity would make it very possible
Yeah I think it’s a strong chance this is the case! 😁🙌
The Pope gave SA, NT & WA to the Portugese to explore and the 4 Eastern States to the Spanish in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494(?)
They were fighting over the world. So he drew lines thru South America and that's why Brazil speaks Portuguese and the rest of South America speak Spanish.
The border between SA and the NT was once a straight line of longitude common to Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. But Queensland "stole" a bit of the NT by pushing the line West.
This longitudinal border was extrapolated to divide Irian Jaya, Portugal, and Papua Nui Guini for the Spanish.
Thank the Pope for another stuff up
Thank goodness the Portuguese never ended up colonising Australia. Imagine the basket case it would be today
@@originalsusser haha well I'm Portuguese myself I have to agree with you. The English and even French handled their colonies much better than the Spanish or Portuguese. In my ideal world, Argentina and Uruguay would've been English colonies and probably be in a much better state than it is now.
In a book titled 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Gavin Menzies claims that in the 1420s several fleets of Chinese ships sailed around the world, making contact with many countries before Europeans explored them, including Australia which he claims that Zheng He, the great Chinese explorer, reached what is now Western Australia
It’s actually not completely empty. People do live in outback towns.
You combine all the populations of those towns hundreds or thousands of kilometres apart it doesn’t even make a up a suburb in a major city. So yes it’s basically empty in the middle. The mine sites in the Pilbara are more populated the most towns outside of Newman, Port Hedland and some others
@ do you even live in Australia 🇦🇺? Probably not!
0:51 "The last populated frontier of the world". 60,000+ years of human settlement in this country, about 45,000 years before the Americas were discovered.
This subject is very controversial in Australia, as this video talks about Australia being "discovered" by Portuguese, Dutch or Englishman.
But it was discovered by very resourceful people thousands of years ago and are to this day the oldest living culture in the world.
This point annoyed me too. And the one about First Nations people hunting everything to extinction. It was the ending of the last ice age causing the climate to dry out that caused those extinctions.
It's true Koorie ppl arrived in Australia 60k yrs before any Europeans sailed by. They settled this land & thrived with their resourcefulness long before the first Englishman died here of starvation. Though climate change contributed to the extinction of megafauna, it wasn't helped by hunting by humans, as was the case throughout the rest of the world at the time
I'm aussie and it's dumb as well. However world history is Eurocentric so when they say discovered they mean discovered for Europe which they should say instead
@@originalsusser they also had wars, pillaged , raped , mass women and children were carried off in attacks, they were more than One Nation..... they were human and carried out just as many horrible things to themselves as the peoples of PNG do to this day
@@Quadrant14 everything you stated is true & facts I'm well aware of. These acts you mention occurred universally with every primitive culture the world over including Europe & Asia before any recorded history. It's part of the human condition
Australian here. When I first moved to the UK, I used to get really confused with how people in the UK would say "oh, I'm from XYZ town. It's a couple of villages over". But there would be NO urban separation between where we would currently be located, and the town or village they might be referring to.. It'd be built up continuous suburbia and settlement the whole way.
Likewise, where London ends and where it begins is a somewhat arbitrary line on a map, but you potentially wouldn't know from driving through or walking that you'd passed OUT of Greater London based on any changes in buildings or whatever.
In Australia, once you leave the outer extremities of the greater metropolitan edge of a city, you've REALLY left the city. Suburbia, buildings, shops, businesses and warehouses simply stop. And all that is left is the motorway or road you're driving on as it cut's through farmland or natural wilderness until you get to the next town along.Towns and cities in Australia are very visually obvious things. Islands of human infrastructure that are surrounded by natural landscape once you depart their extremities.
In Europe, inner cities, suburbs, peripheral towns and villages all sort of morph into eachother. in a smooth, unbroken gradient of manmade buildings and human activity. There's no definitive "edge".
Love watching your videos, keep it up 👍
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate that 🙌
When I born in Australia there were only 12 million.
I remember learning at school in the 90s that the population was 17 million.
Now it's almost 27 million, it probably comes from immigration.
Well I remember the school atlas book we all got in 1971 n population then just cracked the 11m mark
I remember school atlas in 71 pop just cracked 11m mark
27 Million now.
Indonesian sailor already discover the land long before any european or asian sailors discover it.
But indonesian sailor are not interested to colonize it since there is people already live there, the aborigines. Instead indonesian sailor forming trade relations with the aborigines. Indonesian sailor selling them tools and manufactired food and goods while the aborigines selling indonesian sailor sea food, precious gem and local food
I don't know where you got this fictitious account from. Firstly, Indonesian sailors? Maybe fishermen! Selling them tools & manufactured food & goods? What tools, food & goods made in what factory? Aboriginals selling seafood, precious gems & local food! What local food? Precious gems from where? Seafood? remember they're likely fishermen, not sailors & sold with what currency... barter? If they were explorers, well, they would have settled, like they did in the rest of their archipelago. No! More likely, if sailing Indonesians saw Aboriginals, they would have seen proud men standing tall on the shore waving spears, boomerangs & clubbing sticks, etc & shit themselves & turned right around
Yes I hear that it was all well documented back then, that’s how know in such detail now. 🙄
@@originalsusser firstly. Do not see us indonesian to have the same colonialist mentality as westerners. Secondly, aborigines are not that backward as what you think. They already understand technology and trade, eventhough they don't know how money works.
Every year the aborigines will go to the beach carrying goods like what i wrote above close to the beach waiting for indonesian sailor from makassar to arrive.
Once the sailor arrive, the sailor will make temporary shelters and stay in northern australia until the monsoon chaned direction. While waiting, they will buy all goods the aborigines had collected before such as gem, animal skin, dried meat, local medicine and local food for the sailors to eat while waiting for monsson. In exchange the aborigines will get iron tools, clothings, local food from sulawesi, livestock and medicine from sulawesi.
Trade relationship between makassar sailor with aborigines continued until late 1800's when colonial british government prohibit makassar sailor from entering australian coast and prohibiting them from interacting with the aborigines
@@warrenjones5077 australian government trying to cover this historical narative due to pride reason
@@originalsusser koorie live in the south eastern australia, while the aborigines that have contact with the makassar sailor are located in northern australia. Do you think australia is a tiny place so that koorie who native to new south wales and victoria know about makassar sailor?
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That’s a cool country for sure! 🙌🇿🇦
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All over the Feltt gresslends roam the eleephent and entolope
Thets all from Bllomfonteeiyn
South Africa is a poor man's Australia?
What is the next video gonna be about? Which country?
Keep up the great work, and many thanks for the video!
Somewhere in Europe! Although they consider themselves to be part of another place as well 👀👀 And thanks for watching 🙏😁
The indigenous people actually weren’t hunter gatherers contrary to popular belief. They were smart enough to stay in a space of land but move around a little. Think of it as people who camp for a living
@@Uknow1997heheehthey managed land. Did burn offs and knew a lot about native plants and how to help wildlife boost. They would move fish stocks across hot country to different ponds. They were smarter then what they are credited for. They even had Australia mapped and put into different territories.
Funniest thing is people try speculate what they were when they are still doing the same stuff in aboriginal communities around Australia. Most are developed but there is still aboriginals living off the land the exact same way their ancestors have been for thousands of years.
what absolute revisionist rubbish.
1:32 as an australian... we are not surrounded by water.... we a gurt by sea.
Great information. Thank you very much for making this video about Australia.
I work FIFO in the remote north of Western Australian in the Pilbara, Yes it Hot - I just returned from a week of 40 degree C and it is only Springtime not Summer yet - I have international friends they are amazed that I will drive 380KM to the closest supermarket - shop then drive back to the mine site all in one day
I’ve been looking at fifo jobs online but I’m deterred by the drug tests as I smoke marijuana
😂 ahh yes that will not help, we are random D&A tests and also blanket site wide testing
I live in Perth daddy x
Aussie Rules is NOTHING like Rugby
Played with an oval ball on a grass pitch with goal posts in short shorts - it’s more like rugby than anything else
@@danidejaneiro8378 have you ever seen a game. The ball to start with is leather not synthetic. The ground is 60 to 70% larger than a rugby ground. The ball has to be kicked or handballed not thrown. There are 4 goal posts at the end of afl ground not 2. Mid field players in Afl generally run around 15kms per game. The Afl ground is oval in shape not rectangular. Get your facts straight before you mouth off. I could go on for hours with how AFL is sooooooo different from rugby
@@frizzy60 - sounds more like rugby than golf or surfing derp lol
@@danidejaneiro8378 Now you can't even put a proper English sentence together. You LACK of knowledge of Australia and it's No 1 football code is amazing. Rugby is a backward game, meaning every time a player wants to dispose of the ball to go forward the ball must go backwards. At least an Aussie Rules player can dispose of the ball in any direction. Just for your information today is Grand Final day in Aussie Rules with over 100k spectators at the MCG. Pre-game entertainment will be from KISS. You can keep sending your uneducated comments coming thru as I will never back down on my passion for Aussie Rules
@@danidejaneiro8378 It is much more like ping pong than rugby.
Amazing video as always
Appreciate that more than you know! 🙏😁
quokkas are only at Rottnest island, a small island off of perth in western australia
It is NOT just the heat. The biggest problem is the lack of fertility of the soil and the extreme salinity. The land degradation that has already occurred has destroyed large tracts arable land. Unlike Europe, the land must be doused with large amounts of fertilizer and other chemicals to be marginally sustainable.
There may be large amounts of land but the quality for farming is very suspect.
3:45 and also the fact that the main prevailing winds travel west, and there really isn’t anything stopping the winds traveling west deep into Australia untill you get to the Great Dividing Ranges. And to add again that every continent has a desert on its western coast. Or a dryer more arid climate.
Sydney and Melbourne are too large. There needs to be real attention to opening up more land in smaller towns and cities. This will hopefully stop the cities from being overcrowded while spreading out the population. Easily said than done. While many people work from home and work in the internet/software industries, they may be people that can actually afford to living in the larger cities. Whereas those that work at a workplace really need to live where the work is, in the larger cities. But its still a good goal to increase populations and opportunities in rural areas. Some states like WA and SA the population is largely based in the capital cities, and there is opportunity to avoid overcrowding and environmental issues. Vic and NSW have large regional areas that they can really work with to expand.
Australia is the greatest sporting nation in the world they just excell in whatever sports they play...... Hopefully one day i will get a chance to visit the great nation.......
I think the audio cut-out at 8:45
Yeah super strange bug! I’ll try fix that 👌
5 months later that bug still isn't fixed
There is massive amounts of land along the Great Diving Range which technically could be inhabited. Thankfully these areas are protected from development and are deemed National/State parks. They include rainforests and some fo the most beautiful examples of Australias flora and fauna. The Blue Mountains gets more snow then the Swiss Alps yet our ski fields are beautifully developed to preserve the local habitats
Rightly educative 💯
I would love to see a video on this counties of Scotland and Wales, and Northern Ireland
Definitely coming! 👌😁
Did he say 'soil in Australia?" I think he meant dust.
We not surrounded by water we are girthed by sea.
But our land abounds in nature’s gifts
I think that should be “girt by sea”
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Australians all let us ring Joyce, for she is young and free
Awesome! 🇦🇺🙌
Thank you! ☀️🇦🇺😁
@@CountriesExplained 😁❤️
Yes that’s right there were Convict transportation fleets going to the USA long before Australia… and every one call us former criminals 😂 7:48
It's not just that Australia is a dry continent and has limited rainfall. It's also that the limited rainfall we get can be years and years between showers. This does not allow for a larger population as there would be years that cities and towns would be with very limited water or run out. It happens often that Australia's draughts lead to intense water rationing and water carting. You just can't have a bigger population with no water.
Vegas and Phoenix say hold my beer 🍺
I like how at 1:00, he mentions remarkable animals, customs (shows what looks very much like a silhouette of a lamington, a cube of sponge cake, dipped in melted chocolate & rolled in desiccated coconut. A very typical Aussie treat. You non-Aussies don't know what you're missing. What a lil' ripper of a bewdy!), statistics & people. If he showed a lamington, he's obviously been here.
I live in Western Queensland very remote, water is one of our biggest problems, however all that land is usually cattle stations, sheep or cropping, mining. So if u look at the map it maybe void of people but it’s the biggest industry doing all the heavy lifting for the economy. Government is very reluctant to release more land for development (don’t worry we’ve tried to build more infrastructure) we are in the Chanel Country which is on top on the Great Artisan Basin (biggest underground water source) not many trees so we could build housing to relieve our massive housing problem. But no the government is determined to push everyone into the cities
Is there missing audio for WW2?
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South Africa is a poor man's Australia though 😅😅😅
your statement that Papua New Guinea split from Australia 50 to 65,000 years ago, didn't sound accurate to me. I researched it, and it actually was 52 to 65 Million Years Ago, that the split between the two occurred.
I love Australia for sure.
Loved the video. Even though never been there, Australia has always fascinated me. I read Bill Bryson's book "In a Sunburned Country" (as it was titled in America and Canada...was titled "Down Under" in Britain). I remember Mr. Bryson writing about the drive he took from Darwin to Alice Springs where the sun seemed to get larger and hotter the further south out of Darwin he traveled. I remember he talked about a place call the Devil's Marbles which, based on his description, seemed almost mythical. Mr. Bryson had stopped at a restaurant between Darwin and Alice Springs and had a steak as big as a baseball catcher's mit. Pico Iyer called Australia a British California. A friend of mine who lives in New York City said, after traveling there, Melbourne and Perth were his favorite cities. I also would love to check out the Bungle Bungles. Excellent content in your video. Thank you.
P. S. From 8:38 to 9:01 in the video, the sound seemed to cut out.
Fun fact: the Sydney opera house parts if put together in a particular way forms an orange
Might want to include all Australias territories. Antarctic territory and Coral Sea Territory. Land borders with France, Norway, New Zealand and others. The continent was first mapped by its first inhabitants 10s of thousands of years ago through song lines.Long before any map of Europe existed.
rubbish.
I dare you to go to Sydney it is soooo hard to go anywhere but that is the norm for some of us and yes it rains a bit to much in the past years. I almost had to move because it was so flooded
I would dispute the amount of arable land in at least as much as its productivity. In parts of Java they manage to grow 4 rice crops a year and 3 is common. In most of Australia there is usually only a winter crop of grain and the tonnes per hectare is much lower. It should be noted that all cereal crops in Australia are grown with mechanised equipment whereas much of Java remains by hand.
8:40 Commentary really said "Aight I'mma head out"
another problem that im not sure u mentioned, is the government dont fund enough money to the country towns outside of the capitals. comparing the population of each state, about 90% live in the capital and the rest in small country towns scattered around. these country towns are only about at most 30,000 in population, going as low as 10-1000 people.
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Why is it that I watched a film shot in Australia and they were wearing thick coats and when they breath you could see the visible gas coming out and they are acting as if they are feeling very cold?
But this video suggests that it is very hot in Australia..
I feel confused..
Did you know that the Australian alps receive more snow than whole of Switzerland. And Melbourne, Canberra & Hobart reach sub zero temperatures during winter
Oh and its mostly mines or various sorts, gold opals gems coal, nickle iron ore cattle farms ect
The crown did not callup Australian people during the WW1. Basically because the crown does not have that power.
Some people get this fact wrong namely being anti British and not into history. They focus on King George V declaring war on Germany for Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. But he consulted the prime ministers of these countries by telegraph and got their permission. When the British government declared war in 1914 they didn't consider what the dominions wanted. This doco is not perfect but is a lot better than others on the same subject. A big problem with youtube is the use of stock footage they get video like on subject they're talking about but it's the wrong location such as country, wrong period or look nothing like what they are narrating. This had a lot better images of Oz😂.
We down under like to exaggerate how dangerous our wildlife is but if you look at the other continents everywhere have or had dangerous animals. Just aussie ones don't bother me except funnel webs.😢
I think the portuguese were the first to discover Australia. If you check Dutch and Portuguese history, it is much more interlined than you think. Everywhere the Portuguese went, the Dutch went a couple of decades later. Even trying to take some of portugals colonies, including brazil and macau. If you follow portugals pattern around the world, and follow the dutch, the dutch were following Portugal but the Australia part of the Portuguese history was not well documented, probably due to the "useless landscape" on the north west Australian border, they might have just thought that it was nothing but a wasteland. There has also been cannons found in australian coasts, dating back hundreds of years and had clear portuguese coat of arms markings.
The middle of Australia isn't barron and unhitablitable. Its just the European way of life doesn't know how to live of the land and as a aussie I can say it is beautiful
Its a barren wasteland
Convicts
It's really not surprising that Australia has low tourism. It's kinda tough to visit a place that, y'know, doesn't exist.
I keel over in riotous laughter, very original, yes.
@@petefluffy7420 Thank you! I put weeks of thought and planning into that joke. I'm so relieved it landed!
@@JAGzilla-ur3lhIt did take to long to boot it to buggery I have to admit. dickhead
I am an Aussie living in Oz. You should do stand up comedy mate. You are f**king hilarious and probably a f**king Septic...
@@daverow49 uk
Fun fact: Australia grew by 3 times over a period of 75 years from a population of 8.6 million to today over 26 million people.
At current trends it is estimated it will grow another 3 times during the next 7 decades, putting its population closer to 80 million by Australia's tricentenary anniversary.
By the end of the century Australia highest population projections have it anywhere between 72 million to as high as 110 million.
Another fun fact. Australia is 234 years old. When America was also around the same era in its colonisation period its population was also in the mid 20 millions. And look at it now. Both former British colonies.
Hope not and I stay away from the citys where is english is a 2nd language
Two glaring errors in this video. Anna Creek is referred to as a Station NOT a Ranch. Aussie Rules is absolutely NOTHING like Rugby. These sort of errors by non Australians really annoy Aussies
Every other European saw the great deserts of the western half of the country and said nope. The british who always arrived on the western side also said nope then went, lets check the otherside and went oh this is nice
Some call it the Red Centre, some call it the GAFA (the Great Australian Fck All)
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i believe it was the dutch found australia a bit before the uk did, however the dutch found themselves on the north western part of australia, which looked like a wasteland, they called australia "new holland". and the uk did not map out australia, as far as i know, they were winging it when they travelled to the east side of australia with boats full of convicts, and landed at botany bay, in 1778.
The lack of rain is due to the latitude of Australia. You could not take an island of this size and shape and position it such it would get less rain than it does. It hogs the band of high pressure that in both hemispheres also causes the Nabimian deseret in Africa, the Sahara in Africa, and the arid south west corner of the USA plus Northern Mexico. Northern Australia just protrudes just into the hot wet tropical zone, and southern Australia just protrudes into the southern temperate zone. The east coast gets the benefit of the East Australian ocean current (think Nemo) which brings moist air down the coast from the tropics and keeps it wet, at least as far as the Great Dividing Range will let it. The centre is desert, and in between are the arable areas - large but low yielding compared to Europe or most of America. Also - Aussie rules is nothing like Rugby, just a similar ball. It is most similar to Gaelic football, played in Ireland.
Australia isn't an island, it's a continent.
It's classed as the world's largest island, and smallest continent.
It’s an island-continent
No, fool! Australia is considered a country of Oceania. That’s like saying Papua New Guinea and New Zealand belong to Australia.
@@covcanadaWhether or not Australia is part of Oceania it is still a continent.
@@johnyoung1128 What sense does that make? Dude learned history in a toilet bowl.
The far east of Victoria is basically bushland. Why does the graphic on the preview shouting as full???
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Lots of errors in this video. For example, even if the total amount of arable land is greater than it’s SEA neighbours, the soil quality in the majority of Australia is very poor., particularly west of the GDR. This is due to lack of any volcanic or geological activity meaning there’s no refreshing of nutrients. Only parts of Victoria have they found evidence of previous volcanic activity. Also the distinct lack of fresh water which is also of unstable supply owing the weather patterns experienced.
NW Coast of Tasmania had plenty of volcanic activity, and is very fertile. Supplies vegetables to the Melbourne markets.
But Tasmania is different geologically (and in other ways).
Another racist convict descendent making excuses to be secluded from reality
10 minutes when you could've just said "there are deserts there"
Yes he never said why low population
Except for south West Tasmania!
You're welcome to try your luck out there.
So there are pretty much as many Australins as Scandinavians. We are some 27.5 millions in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland
And the same amount of North Koreans roughly 26 millon
Okay. Might be it, doesn't have many people .
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South Africa is a poor man's Australia 😅😅😅😅😅
@@paulfri1569South Africa is a cool place, it’s a poor man’s Australian accent tho 😂😂
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Australia located in such a climate zone would surely mean very less population.
Australia has a variety of climate zones, but much of its landmass experiences arid, semi-arid, tropical, or Mediterranean climates. Countries with similar climates include those with large desert areas, tropical regions, or Mediterranean coasts. Here's a list of countries in comparable climate zones and their approximate population sizes: Saudi Arabia - 36 million, Egypt - 112 million, Algeria - 45 million, Sudan - 49 million, Iran - 89 million
I think debunks your claim!
@@gavinchadwick5985good point but you don’t need to ask chat gpt to write it for you
just make a river through the middle of australia, more water 🗿
It would evaporate.
@@shaundgb7367 not if you made it big enough. connected it to the ocean. also then it'd be a good thing that it evaporated so it rains in the desert
@@Yabois_no, it really wouldn’t. And by the time you make it “big enough” it would be so comically enormous as to probably bankrupt the entire global economy. There’s just no point.
@@Yabois_you have no idea how insanely hot it gets in the interior or that your river would built across some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth over a couple of thousand kilometres. It would also be ridiculously expensive running into the trillions of dollars to build
ok chill man. i wasnt serious. and i do have an idea how hot it gets@@markreardon6663
how many ppl live in sahara desert ?
You can make video about New Zealand or Life new Zealand 🇳🇿🇳🇿❤❤❤ neighbours Australia 🇦🇺❤🇭🇲
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Ya forgot to mention there many victories on the western front in Ww1
damned great country. as an australian with italian parentage, our remoteness and lack of a shared border is truly a blessing, especially when one is confronted with the disaster happening in europe. australia was also very economically prosperous and socially cohesive during the white australia policy, until it was dismantled by the corrupt labor government in the 1970s.
Australia would be a global pariah if it still had the White Australia Policy ya wanker.
bro it’s hot as balls
Australia explained in 3 words: “too fucking hot.” Or “too fucking cold.”
Is It Possible for At Some point in April to do North Macedonia? It would be an amazing birthday gift but its understandable if your not able to.
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Pretty sure we think the Duch discovered West Australaia?
did the Dutch and Portuguese traded with the native Australians? if they did so they could have introduced agriculture and metal working before British colonisation
Topography matters.
This video seems strangely familiar to a Real Life Lore video. Hmmmmm
I love the outback
Hey, hey, hey!! They did not “discover” Australia. Please don’t write Australia’s ancient residents from the history books. Same goes for America (north and south). And I’m voting YES!
It was a discovery to the Europeans. Yes, Aboriginal people inhabited the country for a very long time, but the discovery itself refers to the Europeans discovering a land unknown to them.
@@gravyz2cute4u the thing about words is they mean specific things, especially when it comes to the law.
you appear indoctrinated...
you forgot to say South Australia Adelaide was settled by free settler not convicts
Why don't we turn it into a garden like China
with pollution and farmers crapping on their crops
As an Australian I would just like to say you cannot live in the vast majority of this country without water (most of the time there is none), shelter (none again) or without the support of the 1st nations people who do inhabit parts of it. We are white urban people who aeons ago lost the ability to survive the desert, jungle or even the open plains. All of which occur in Australia. We also like it just the way it is.
As an Australian you are just a racist descendant if convicts who have more excuses
No one discovered anything, the proper term is, they came across it. People were already living there.
Yeah the First Nations people where there thousands of years before the Dutch or Great Britain (Also I’m Australian)
Symantics. I opened my freezer the other day and discovered I still had some ice cream. But I didn't make it and I certainly wasn't the first person to see it. 🙄
@@Dags470 Exactly! The Europeans came across a land and people unknown to them, therefore it was a discovery to them since the history here is told from a European standpoint. 😮💨
When the word discovered is used, it implies, this is the first time human eyes have seen this. Another thing to consider is this, let’s say a person from the jungle swam and then walked 300 miles and came across a modern City full of people, would that be considered a discovery in the World’s history books? Hahahaha!
@@RetepOdaged It would be a discovery to the jungle person. Like when archaeologists discover things in excavations.
You literally forgot a whole heap of history like what happened with indigenous Australians
which has contributed nothing to modern australia, being a hunter/gatherer culture.
Because the land is saved for future Solar panel farms 😂😂😂
Australia is look like great califonia
I'd like to hear this told by an Australian.