@GeographyByGeoff just need to mention you switched Sydney and Melbourne. They’re both pretty big cities. A little quality control and/or correction would go a long way.
Hey, love the video! My only suggestion would be; not assuming viewers have the luxury and privilege to travel abroad. It doesn't feel relatable when you say "we've all been there" during an ad read relating to international travel. That's all 🤷🏻♂️
A friend of mine, Meriel, about 28 years ago, travelled from UK to Australia to visit "the Nullarbor Plains", "to see the blooming of the flowers there", "it's a blooming of flowers that lasts only 5 or 6 days, and the bus takes 12 hours to get there and they have to time the trip right to make sure we see the flowers".......Meriel tells us more about the Nullarbor Plains with only those words than that guy, makes Nullarbor seem a little exaggerated......and she pronounced the o in Nullarbor more like oo, cool, tool.
@CarlDillynson you know you don't have to add "ngl" to the end of every statement/opinion you have, right? What reason could you possibly have to lie about that?
That mistake made me unsubscribe to the channel, because its not a technical error anyone could've done, its a huge error that anyone who knows anything about geography would never do, so I don't trust any of the other facts. Embarrassing for a geography channel.
@yt.personal.identification I am, because if a geography channel can make such a blatant obvious mistake, what other mistakes does it make that are less obvious?
@mjuzick-f4s I am an Aussie and I didn't even notice until I read the comments. I was looking at the depiction of Adelaide as a large area. Melbourne and Sydney just aren't that import. It is an easy thing to do, and it really doesn't matter. Let ne guess. Victorian. Right?
Wait, is there any other way to pronounce Adelaide? That's the only way I've ever heard anyone, anywhere, pronounce it. Do some people call it Aid-laid or Ad-uh-lad-ee or something?
I crossed the Nullarbor on my 350 Yamaha motorcycle in 1973 when the highway was a dirt road no tar no nuthin' . It was the hottest it had been for many decades.On the way back from Perth, days later it had been the wettest they had seen for months boy what a trip for a twenty year old I had to carry fuel in a small drum because there weren't enough gas stations along the road.
@aronblack-q4l I prefer things the way they were - means fewer Victorians moving up to SEQ to get away from Melbourne weather and complain about the locals jk
I wondered why it was so dark last night trying to find food in our kero fridge and tripped over trying to get the the thunderbox out in the back yard.
My Granddads sisters walked across the Nullabour with one horse and cart in about 1890s from Adelaide to Kalgoorlie 3 women no men, I think they are amazing. my dad and mom used to tow a caravan across when it was still dirt all the way. Now days its blacktop all the way i have driven it 4or 5 times i forget lol like alot of people from WA driving long distances are a fact of life.
You failed to mention the construction of the Trans-Australian Railway, completed in 1917, which features the longest stretch of perfectly straight railroad track in the world, and is supported by a network of tiny communities of railway workers and their families. Unlike the telegraph line, it remains in use today and even features a grand passenger train called the Indo-Pacific.
I think that was a mid 80s National Geographic article, about the Tea and Sugar Train crossing that plain, that first got me excited about world travel. It seemed like such a wild, desolate place. I still want to visit.
As an Aussie, I'm also not certain why pictures of Uluru (Ayres Rock) and the Kata Tjuta's (the Olgas) from Central Australia have been used to illustrate a story about the Nullabor plain.
@johannavanklaveren66 The distances they must have travelled are incredible. I can walk around Gadigal territory but the idea of walking around Anangu territory is mindboggling.
@V@Vegasprimetimell thank you. I may have been a tad hasty. You obviously have a sense of humour. It was meant as a joke. I’m 🇬🇧 so I make no apologies. One good retort deserves another. Here’s to you Sir 🫡
I lived in a small desert town in Nevada - less than 100 people.... I understand people that want to go here.... there’s something about the desert that was good for my soul
I’ve driven across the Nullarbor, the best beaches on the planet are there, I’m glad most people don’t live there, it’s unspoiled nature and it’s worth protecting for the few that dare adventure there.
@ulfgabrielson4766 I've been for a swim at Eucla, but it was in one of the caves to the NW. Joys of sharing the journey with a mad cap speleologist 😁 On another trip I did make it down as far as the old telegraph station.
Esperance has good surf beaches, but any beach on the Nullarbor is dangerous and not suitable for tourists. This is an area with limited mobile coverage, hundreds of kms from emergency services.
I live 200 km from Nullabor Plain and it is truly an amazing place. The Bight is also home to the Southern Right Whale. Hundreds of them come here in winter to calve. It is the endless nothingness for 1000km.
@joshuakirkham9593 Canadian here. I once met a woman from sydney, who told me that Perth was the "Home of the well-dressed Bogan". I don't know what that means, but I'm fairly certain that it isn't a compliment
I think It’s a colloquial term. I’m from England and I’m working class I’m proud of this but it could be used as a put down. I think Bogan is along similar lines.
@jimeditorial Semi-true. I think the term 'bogan' is definitely perjorative (from the outside), but Perth does have communities that have claimed ownership of it (and are proud of the title). It would be interesting to find out the link between education and being bogan. I say this, because nany bogans (in Perth and Adelaide) that I know are well educated. Sydney is the place that doesn't feel like Australia to me (sort of like London is seperate to the UK).
@jimeditorial Perthanality here. Folk from Sydney think everyone not in Sydney is a Bogan, with a couple of exceptions from the freaks in Melbourne, who they still don't like. Being from Perth I'm flattered and surprised anyone from Sydney thinks we're 'Well Dressed'. I'm taking that Lady's description as a rare compliment from the East. I'm sure Canada has their own version of a Bogan. They're never from a nice or waterfront neighbourhood, usually dress in Flannel or Black tops, far too hot for the weather, faded torn jeans, and black Desert Boots. They swear a lot, and pretend to be ignorant of all things tasteful, yet have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Ford vs Chevrolet V8 engines, and will on rare occasions wax lyrical about the genius of a Chrysler Hemi. There is only one Band in their World, and its Name is ACDC, or Acca Dacca. 30 years ago they always dressed with a cigarette packet stuffed up a sleeve, and always had a cigarette, (known as a Durrie), stuck on their lower lip, although it only had a 50/50 chance of being lit or not at any point in time. I'm sure you know the type. If you see them on the City High Street, you'll cross the road to avoid them, but if you're broken down on the Nullarbor Plain, you're praying for one to turn up, because he can probably fix any internal combustion engine problem with a piece of wire and some chewing gum. You're shit out of luck if you're in an EV. Even if they know how to fix it, they won't on principal. Although they will still be nice enough to tow you to the next Roadhouse, albeit with an enormous, surprisingly professional, invoice afterwards. And you'll want to pay that invoice, because through some twist of fate, no matter where you live in the English speaking World and beyond, they'll have a Cousin who lives nearby who happens to be a part time Debt Collector.
Those of us who know first hand the friendly rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne can fully grasp the horror of getting the two cities wrong on a map! Haha! :-D
I loved the emptiness. I lived in the town of Whyalla, I would travel for 1/2 an hour and I was in the outback. There is a beauty in the wide, brown, land, and I loved the people who lived on the sheep and wheat properties and the people who lived on massive properties who ran thousands of sheep. I miss it.
Yo.... The Nullabor is NOT dead. Its actually super green in the winter. I really enjoy the Nullabor crossing. Its not "dead", its filled with life. Just, dont leave the main road, and keep 10L of water, a sleeping bag, and a couple of days worth of food in the car . If your car breaks down it could be a few hours before a truck comes by.
I'd work on that pronunciation (see below). Per Wikipedia, it doesn't appear to be based on an Aboriginal name for their 'waterless plain'. In August 1865, while travelling across the Nullarbor Plain, Edmund Delisser in his journal named both Nullarbor and Eucla for the first time. The Nullarbor Plain (/ˈnʌlərbɔːr/ NUL-ər-bor; Latin: nulla feminine of nullus 'no' and arbor 'tree').
I travelled by train across the Nullarbor in 1983. Never again. Got bored silly. Never saw any kangaroos or any animals except for either end of the Nullarbor. Ended up counting the telegraph posts...and they are never ending...
When my family emigrated to Australia in 1974, the Whyalla shipyards were where we went. Right on the very eastern edge of that area that no one lives in...
This area is SO empty, there was actually a tornado in 2022, but it wasn't discovered until 2 YEARS later! Swegle Studios did a video about a year ago about this find; the title is “Rare Undiscovered Tornado Scar - Recently found on Google Earth”. In 2024, a caver discovered on Google Earth an 11-kilometre (6.8 mile) vegetation-stripped track on the Nullarbor Plain, ranging between 160 and 250 metres (175 and 273 yards) wide; it straddles the border of South and Western Australia, about 120km (74.5 miles) north of Eucla.
As a past frequent visitor to Albert Park near Melbourne, I got a chuckle from your map at the beginning of your video. Melbourne and Sydney should be reversed. Your video is interesting, thank you for posting.
lol this is ridiculous. I have driven the Nullarbor (not nullerbar), west to east then back again. Our mantra was “onward ever onward” incredible experience though.
@GeographyByGeoff World's biggest wildflower show is located in Ravensthorpe (pop. 500), also at the southern tip of the world's largest temperate woodlands (Great Western Woodlands), the size of Wisconsin. Also technically a 7 hr drive from Perth, not 5. We have extreme climate here, high winds, frost, big temperature jumps in a day, also hot northern winds. Helena & Aurora ranges have Tetratheca flowers that can survive Death Valley temperatures.
Canadian here and I ran to the comments as soon as that map appeared with Melbourne and Sydney swapped. Like, how do you put all this effort into creating this visual for your video and NO ONE on your team realizes the insane error someone made??? The audacity of the name of this channel! 😅
This video gets one thing spot on. It's a mesmerising place to visit. Fuel is double the national average. Very limited food and accommodation along the way. I drove through a locus swarm. There is only one straight stretch of 90 miles long.
We drove our '98 Ford Falcon from Melbourne to Perth, crossing the Nullarbor in what became an unforgettable journey. Watching the landscape transform into endless, flat desert was absolutely incredible.
Australia is so cool. i love these videos, it makes the continent seem prehistoric in a sense and mysterious like another planet in a different galaxy.
Some day in the future someone will be saying, "...so this was not a desperate shelter; this was a place of ceremony, art, and spiritual connection," and they will be talking about our sharpie scrawls on our public restroom toilet stall divider walls. 7:08
With so many things trying to kill you, I swear, Aussies were the original “HOLD MY BEER” crew. If they weren’t so cordial and fun loving, they would have conquered the world.
@burnerjack01 well they were prisoners, thieves and opportunists who raped and almost got the native population extinguished, so no, you're wrong. They did what the spanish and portuguese did in America, what the french and british did to north America and what all europeans did to Africa
Why is that? On settlement there was plentiful water with pockets of fertile land. But once technology allowed, there was nothing that couldn't support a large population
The nullabor is a wonderful drive. And at points you can find tracks to the great Australian bight where there are huge dunes and sandy beaches. Great camping spots
It's mostly pretty well researched. He didn't mention the pastoral industry though. But the Sydney, Melbourne switch, and the missing cities of Brizzy and Hobart were a major whoops😂
Thanks, it only took 10 seconds to work that you can't trust the info in this video. Saved me a lot of time. Being Australian it was easy to see the issue but I've never been to France so I've got no idea whether the info in the pinned French Alps video is correct. Best err on the side of caution and give the entire channel a miss.
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Lets not be mean guy's
Everyone makes mistakes! Its a great video!
@GeographyByGeoff just need to mention you switched Sydney and Melbourne. They’re both pretty big cities. A little quality control and/or correction would go a long way.
When r u doing a video about how US became a fascist dictatorship in record time?
Hey, love the video! My only suggestion would be; not assuming viewers have the luxury and privilege to travel abroad. It doesn't feel relatable when you say "we've all been there" during an ad read relating to international travel.
That's all 🤷🏻♂️
You got Melbourne and Sydney in the wrong spots lol
@RoCkEtApPlIaNcE.1 embarrassing error
Seriously I had to rewind when I saw that
Yeah did you see the road on the west end ,lake King to norseman on the gravel
@Hfd678vcdg not really. Seems like a simple mistake
Lol, came here to say that too. He also missed Brisbane completely.
Honestly getting the locations wrong this early in the video on a literal geography channel is wild
Literally one second in lol
A friend of mine, Meriel, about 28 years ago, travelled from UK to Australia to visit "the Nullarbor Plains", "to see the blooming of the flowers there", "it's a blooming of flowers that lasts only 5 or 6 days, and the bus takes 12 hours to get there and they have to time the trip right to make sure we see the flowers".......Meriel tells us more about the Nullarbor Plains with only those words than that guy, makes Nullarbor seem a little exaggerated......and she pronounced the o in Nullarbor more like oo, cool, tool.
THIS is a geography channel? You have Sydney and Melbourne confused. Locations are all wrong. 😮
@MickeyRay-h3z Ah, but he got your attention and engagement on his content. So he won. :P
Plus it's still up 11 days later.
You may need to re-do this video because the entire Aussie population is laughing at your error
Too right. Next chance I get, I am blocking this channel. Can’t reward my views for this laziness.
Errors plural.
I'm not even Aussie, never been there, but I caught that right away. Bad look for a "geography" channel
@Aydin-Adam Yeah we’re supposed to be watching a reliable resource
@ricki-bobby
jeezuz, deal with it
Getting the locations of cities wrong in the first 10 seconds on a geography channel is a little ridiculous, ngl.
It’s intentionally done for FUN
@CarlDillynson you know you don't have to add "ngl" to the end of every statement/opinion you have, right? What reason could you possibly have to lie about that?
@ldawg7117how profound.
he got his degree from wikipedia university though
😂 I went to bed, woke up and found Melbourne and Sydney had switched places and we now have the Null AR BAR desert! 😂
it wasn't a baring video.
How can I trust a Geography channel that CANT EVEN GET THE RIGHT NAMES OF THE LOCATIONS OF AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST CITIES??
@ShinkoNet calm down
@BrokeNbelt_tv simmer down, turbo
Completamente cierto, pensé lo mismo.
@johnmckeag1048settle down speed racer
Unforgivable. I unsubscribed immediately after seeing that.
0:10 Sydney is mislabeled where Melbourne is located and vice versa. You got em switched? Color me surprised. What a start to the video
Colour*
... because Australia
That mistake made me unsubscribe to the channel, because its not a technical error anyone could've done, its a huge error that anyone who knows anything about geography would never do, so I don't trust any of the other facts. Embarrassing for a geography channel.
@mjuzick-f4s Not sure if you are even serious
@yt.personal.identification I am, because if a geography channel can make such a blatant obvious mistake, what other mistakes does it make that are less obvious?
@mjuzick-f4s I am an Aussie and I didn't even notice until I read the comments.
I was looking at the depiction of Adelaide as a large area. Melbourne and Sydney just aren't that import.
It is an easy thing to do, and it really doesn't matter.
Let ne guess.
Victorian. Right?
0:10 crazy that he got the pronunciation of Adelaide correct but mislabeled Sydney and Melbourne 😂
He made up for Adelaide with NullaBar though 😂
Wait, is there any other way to pronounce Adelaide? That's the only way I've ever heard anyone, anywhere, pronounce it. Do some people call it Aid-laid or Ad-uh-lad-ee or something?
@s-c.. At least he didn't say NungaBlah
Redemption can only be achieved in the correct pronunciation on the number 14
FORDEAN
How else would adelaide be pronounced?
I crossed the Nullarbor on my 350 Yamaha motorcycle in 1973 when the highway was a dirt road no tar no nuthin' . It was the hottest it had been for many decades.On the way back from Perth, days later it had been the wettest they had seen for months boy what a trip for a twenty year old I had to carry fuel in a small drum because there weren't enough gas stations along the road.
😂 Hitched across in 1995 , not sure if I would do it now .
*petrol stations.
@tomhendry465I live on the Nullarbor plains. I'm Anangu, kokatha
@TonyBurke100 Did you run into any snakes?
I've heard him say Nullarbor incorrectly so many times now I can't remember how to say it correctly.
I'm not even Australian and his pronunciation is driving me nuts.
What if it really is the Nullorbar and you've been getting it wrong your whole life? Dun-dun-duuuuuuun!
AI dross 😮
holy shit it was annoying
I would know, It's the first time I've ever heard this word.
At least Melbourne is closer to Brisbane now,saves driving time and fuel.
🤣🤣🤣
@aronblack-q4l I prefer things the way they were - means fewer Victorians moving up to SEQ to get away from Melbourne weather and complain about the locals
jk
About time the government did something right!
😂
😂😂😂😂
Hobart and Brisbane don't have electricity 😂
In an ideal world.
Was there a cyclone?
I'll let you know, going there for a wedding ....😂
@jadesmith6823 still using kero fridges
I wondered why it was so dark last night trying to find food in our kero fridge and tripped over trying to get the the thunderbox out in the back yard.
Hard to be invested in this video when there is a huge error in the first 10 seconds 😢
I just stopped watching after that….
Yeah Americans know jack about geography outside their own country.
Same here...
A geography "expert" can't even get the 2 largest cities in Australia in the right place.
And what is “terrifying” ?
My Granddads sisters walked across the Nullabour with one horse and cart in about 1890s from Adelaide to Kalgoorlie 3 women no men, I think they are amazing.
my dad and mom used to tow a caravan across when it was still dirt all the way. Now days its blacktop all the way i have driven it 4or 5 times i forget lol like alot of people from WA driving long distances are a fact of life.
MOM?! Are you an Aussie?! Since when do Aussies call their Mums - MOM?! We are not Americans - thank God!
You failed to mention the construction of the Trans-Australian Railway, completed in 1917, which features the longest stretch of perfectly straight railroad track in the world, and is supported by a network of tiny communities of railway workers and their families. Unlike the telegraph line, it remains in use today and even features a grand passenger train called the Indo-Pacific.
I think that was a mid 80s National Geographic article, about the Tea and Sugar Train crossing that plain, that first got me excited about world travel. It seemed like such a wild, desolate place. I still want to visit.
Indian-Pacific
Indian-Pacific Railway, as in the names of the oceans it connects.
As an Aussie, I'm also not certain why pictures of Uluru (Ayres Rock) and the Kata Tjuta's (the Olgas) from Central Australia have been used to illustrate a story about the Nullabor plain.
Well, if this guy is mixing up the location of Australia's two largest cities, do you really expect him to get anything else right?
this is becoming truly embarrassing
The Anangu people lived at Uluru and on the Nullarbor, but that's a different thing.
@johannavanklaveren66 The distances they must have travelled are incredible. I can walk around Gadigal territory but the idea of walking around Anangu territory is mindboggling.
@JB-hj2vj
It’s called Sydney. “Gadigal” hasn’t existed for over 200 years, and wasn’t anything before it was made a thing by whites.
If this is Geography by A.I. then self driving car navigation will be such fun.
Lol 😂
Me- Take me to Brisbane
Car- Huh?
Adelaide to Perth.. Turn left. Turn Left. Turn left.
Gold!
AI in this case stands for "American Idiocy" 😀
Okay, got it 1:30 in. It’s a desert and nothing grows
@Vegasprimetime I’m thinking that there might be a similar situation occurring in your brain.
@davegreen873hey good one
@V@Vegasprimetimell thank you. I may have been a tad hasty. You obviously have a sense of humour. It was meant as a joke. I’m 🇬🇧 so I make no apologies. One good retort deserves another. Here’s to you Sir 🫡
@davegreen873 🦢
And there's better places to live
I just scrolled the cliff in maps, that thing never ends.
I lived in a small desert town in Nevada - less than 100 people.... I understand people that want to go here.... there’s something about the desert that was good for my soul
Sydney has been heading south for a long time! looks like it got there
😂😂😂😂
I like that but by that logic Melbourne should be somewhere in Antarctica by now.
😂😂😂
I’ve driven across the Nullarbor, the best beaches on the planet are there, I’m glad most people don’t live there, it’s unspoiled nature and it’s worth protecting for the few that dare adventure there.
I've also driven there, back and forth. But realise we missed driving down to the beach in the middle at Eucla
@ulfgabrielson4766 I've been for a swim at Eucla, but it was in one of the caves to the NW. Joys of sharing the journey with a mad cap speleologist 😁 On another trip I did make it down as far as the old telegraph station.
@ulfgabrielson4766 I saw the Nullabor Nymph --- she had nice assets
Esperance has good surf beaches, but any beach on the Nullarbor is dangerous and not suitable for tourists. This is an area with limited mobile coverage, hundreds of kms from emergency services.
I don’t suggest it was safe but it certainly was the best beaches I’ve ever been to.
I live 200 km from Nullabor Plain and it is truly an amazing place. The Bight is also home to the Southern Right Whale. Hundreds of them come here in winter to calve. It is the endless nothingness for 1000km.
How can you trust the information in a video when they cant even get the location of the major cities right
its not the Nul o bar ... its the nul o boar
@PalisAiruta nullabar cobber!!
Nullabor ha ha not “Nullabar”
I was starting to get a slight twitch every time he said it wrong
Null, a bore.
Self descriptive.
And the emphasis should be on the last syllable
Yabbut the Nullabar is my favourite Australian candy.
@DaveBroTubeCandy?
Oh my. You can't misplace Sydney and Melbourne. That's a horrible geographic error. lol.
Unforgivable screwup for a geography "expert", and I don't even live in Australia.
Yeah, I'm an American and have never been to Australia and I still caught that error. Like, WTF? Really?
🌴😒 He's on "smoko"..!!
...so leave'em alone.!!
Adelaide just chilling in the corner...
In the very beginning of the video you have Sydney and Melbourne mixed up.
As an Australian, this was Very informative, thanks
I'm not an aussie but... Sydney and Melbourne, they got switched I think.🤔😊❤️
It's to boost comments from Schmucks like us
@SickJazzy Lmao if that’s the case that is truly preposterous. Either way I won’t be clicking on another video from this channel.
@SickJazzy excellent analysis - it also provides fun for the NITPICKERS
@Phillip-Spencer you’re no fun
I love your videos but you had a mistake on this one! You flipped Sydney and Melbourne. 🤣😂🤣
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed
BLOOPER BY GEOFF 😊
Good news: nobody cares (I've lived in both)
@Secretlyanothername
Which did you prefer and would recommend for permanent residence?
@Chuck-s5iif you're rich, Sydney*. if you're not rich, Melbourne.
*you can also buy a van and live by the beach
Eucla even had it's own timeslot.
I live on that stretch of coast and so do tens of thousands of other people.
Building that road must have been hell on earth.
Not really. It’s flat wide open plain. Nothing to blast, no trees to clear.
Living in Perth, and visiting Adelaide regularily; you got the two important cities correct. 😂
@joshuakirkham9593 Canadian here. I once met a woman from sydney, who told me that Perth was the "Home of the well-dressed Bogan". I don't know what that means, but I'm fairly certain that it isn't a compliment
I think It’s a colloquial term.
I’m from England and I’m working class I’m proud of this but it could be used as a put down.
I think Bogan is along similar lines.
@jimeditorial Semi-true. I think the term 'bogan' is definitely perjorative (from the outside), but Perth does have communities that have claimed ownership of it (and are proud of the title).
It would be interesting to find out the link between education and being bogan. I say this, because nany bogans (in Perth and Adelaide) that I know are well educated.
Sydney is the place that doesn't feel like Australia to me (sort of like London is seperate to the UK).
@jimeditorial Perthanality here. Folk from Sydney think everyone not in Sydney is a Bogan, with a couple of exceptions from the freaks in Melbourne, who they still don't like. Being from Perth I'm flattered and surprised anyone from Sydney thinks we're 'Well Dressed'. I'm taking that Lady's description as a rare compliment from the East.
I'm sure Canada has their own version of a Bogan. They're never from a nice or waterfront neighbourhood, usually dress in Flannel or Black tops, far too hot for the weather, faded torn jeans, and black Desert Boots. They swear a lot, and pretend to be ignorant of all things tasteful, yet have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Ford vs Chevrolet V8 engines, and will on rare occasions wax lyrical about the genius of a Chrysler Hemi. There is only one Band in their World, and its Name is ACDC, or Acca Dacca. 30 years ago they always dressed with a cigarette packet stuffed up a sleeve, and always had a cigarette, (known as a Durrie), stuck on their lower lip, although it only had a 50/50 chance of being lit or not at any point in time.
I'm sure you know the type. If you see them on the City High Street, you'll cross the road to avoid them, but if you're broken down on the Nullarbor Plain, you're praying for one to turn up, because he can probably fix any internal combustion engine problem with a piece of wire and some chewing gum. You're shit out of luck if you're in an EV. Even if they know how to fix it, they won't on principal. Although they will still be nice enough to tow you to the next Roadhouse, albeit with an enormous, surprisingly professional, invoice afterwards. And you'll want to pay that invoice, because through some twist of fate, no matter where you live in the English speaking World and beyond, they'll have a Cousin who lives nearby who happens to be a part time Debt Collector.
He didn't get the road route right though, unless he's planning to drive on the railway line
The Nullarbor also contains the world's longest straight stretch of railway track at 478km.
Might want to have another look at google maps there bud
I was just there. It's like one of the most beautiful places on earth and barely anyone was around
What's more amazing is the satellite view of small fires, which blanket the whole country. The Abos have to keep warm, you know.
Oh dear. Melbourne and Sydney… oh dear oh dear oh dear…
Geoff has lost his credibility.
Those of us who know first hand the friendly rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne can fully grasp the horror of getting the two cities wrong on a map! Haha! :-D
3 seconds in you have Sydney and Melbourne confused and we/re supposed to flolow you????
I enjoy these videos, but there are few RUclipsrs as bad at basic geography as Geoff.
I can't believe this was released without anyone checking it.
@connor3158
His mom did after a couple cans of fosters
Ya get watcha get i reckon.
I loved the emptiness. I lived in the town of Whyalla, I would travel for 1/2 an hour and I was in the outback. There is a beauty in the wide, brown, land, and I loved the people who lived on the sheep and wheat properties and the people who lived on massive properties who ran thousands of sheep. I miss it.
I lived in Whyalla too. First 20 years of my life. It was a great place for a kid.
Begging this man to do a touch more prep work and PLEASE have someone review your videos before you post them
@Matteodcervantes there is no man.
Yo.... The Nullabor is NOT dead. Its actually super green in the winter. I really enjoy the Nullabor crossing. Its not "dead", its filled with life. Just, dont leave the main road, and keep 10L of water, a sleeping bag, and a couple of days worth of food in the car . If your car breaks down it could be a few hours before a truck comes by.
1:48 Thank you, it's the first I've ever seen of it. I bet it's beautiful in the winter.
How did you swap the locations for Sydney and Melbourne?
Most of youtube is wrong, they have a clip of a bear approaching a lass sitting on a bustop in Perth western australia, they dont have bears lol
In the Eyre Penninsula, they should built the Seawater Greenhouse. It uses solar power to turn desert land into fresh.
Can’t tell you how much I appreciate a human voice narrating. 🙏
An AI would probably know better how to say the place names and place them correctly on a map, unlike Geographically challenged Geoff
I'd work on that pronunciation (see below).
Per Wikipedia, it doesn't appear to be based on an Aboriginal name for their 'waterless plain'.
In August 1865, while travelling across the Nullarbor Plain, Edmund Delisser in his journal named both Nullarbor and Eucla for the first time. The Nullarbor Plain (/ˈnʌlərbɔːr/ NUL-ər-bor; Latin: nulla feminine of nullus 'no' and arbor 'tree').
I travelled by train across the Nullarbor in 1983. Never again. Got bored silly. Never saw any kangaroos or any animals except for either end of the Nullarbor. Ended up counting the telegraph posts...and they are never ending...
It's a dream of mine to, one day, visit the magnificent Melbourne opera house. Alas.
I want to cross the Melbourne Harbour Bridge to Tasmania and hunt Tasmanian tigers.
Hahaha!
Can l come never been to Aussie 😮
When my family emigrated to Australia in 1974, the Whyalla shipyards were where we went. Right on the very eastern edge of that area that no one lives in...
you got Sydney and Melbourne backwards.
This area is SO empty, there was actually a tornado in 2022, but it wasn't discovered until 2 YEARS later! Swegle Studios did a video about a year ago about this find; the title is “Rare Undiscovered Tornado Scar - Recently found on Google Earth”.
In 2024, a caver discovered on Google Earth an 11-kilometre (6.8 mile) vegetation-stripped track on the Nullarbor Plain, ranging between 160 and 250 metres (175 and 273 yards) wide; it straddles the border of South and Western Australia, about 120km (74.5 miles) north of Eucla.
That’s really interesting, you can see the swirls on the ground.
The entirety of Australia is pretty much empty.
As someone from Brisbane it's as funny as hell that you confused Sydney and Melbourne.
Well at least we exist in this alternate universe of his, unlike yourself.
Melbourne and Sydney are around the wrong way dude
Wow! Such beautiful landscapes. Always wanted to visit Australia. ❤
3:41 yeah im from Tassie, i can confirm its windy as shit
Crazy how are sparsely populated Australia is. Texas has more people than Australia.
I know, and texas is small western Australia is neverly 4 time the that is 1/3 of Australia
Yes, 26mil that's a similar population to LA.
Then theirs England which is approximately 53 times smaller in land mass than Australia but has more than double the population 😱
And that's the big problem with Texas - It's full of Texans.
Yet our government has caused overcrowding by trying to stuff half a million brown people every year into the major cities.
As a past frequent visitor to Albert Park near Melbourne, I got a chuckle from your map at the beginning of your video. Melbourne and Sydney should be reversed.
Your video is interesting, thank you for posting.
it was a sort of relief to hear a drive described as “almost hallucinogenic” … i’d like to add Kansas and Texas to that list 😂
As a New Englander, driving out West on certain dead-straight roads for hundreds of miles was mind-dissolving.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Nevada too
I drove through Kansas once. NEVER AGAIN.
@festerofest4374 I 80 Iowa,Nebraska with the expansion joints in the road about put me to the limit.
You are covering Esperance and further west - that has ocean access and beautiful sand beaches.
That underground cave looked like a real version of the Underdark. I think you even showed a wandering Drider for a few seconds.
lol this is ridiculous. I have driven the Nullarbor (not nullerbar), west to east then back again. Our mantra was “onward ever onward” incredible experience though.
On the Nullabor Plain, the traffic is relatively heavy
There are also frequent fuel stops. The central part of Australia is much more lonely
@GeographyByGeoff World's biggest wildflower show is located in Ravensthorpe (pop. 500), also at the southern tip of the world's largest temperate woodlands (Great Western Woodlands), the size of Wisconsin. Also technically a 7 hr drive from Perth, not 5. We have extreme climate here, high winds, frost, big temperature jumps in a day, also hot northern winds. Helena & Aurora ranges have Tetratheca flowers that can survive Death Valley temperatures.
I drove on that road from Adelaide to Perth
Most amazing experience !
Just plan your trip ( petrol and accommodation)
Canadian here and I ran to the comments as soon as that map appeared with Melbourne and Sydney swapped. Like, how do you put all this effort into creating this visual for your video and NO ONE on your team realizes the insane error someone made??? The audacity of the name of this channel! 😅
I don't know much at all about Australia so I hadn't noticed.
Got your Sydney and Melbourne messed up did ya chief? Probably should fix that. Yeah.
How do you mix up Melbourne and sydney
Right. That's like mixing up NYC and LA.
This video gets one thing spot on. It's a mesmerising place to visit. Fuel is double the national average. Very limited food and accommodation along the way. I drove through a locus swarm. There is only one straight stretch of 90 miles long.
Don't forget the uncontrolled bushfires on the western end (near Rawlinna).
We drove our '98 Ford Falcon from Melbourne to Perth, crossing the Nullarbor in what became an unforgettable journey. Watching the landscape transform into endless, flat desert was absolutely incredible.
Australia is so cool. i love these videos, it makes the continent seem prehistoric in a sense and mysterious like another planet in a different galaxy.
Some day in the future someone will be saying, "...so this was not a desperate shelter; this was a place of ceremony, art, and spiritual connection," and they will be talking about our sharpie scrawls on our public restroom toilet stall divider walls. 7:08
0:09 You swapped Sydney And Melbourne
Wait Sydney where? 🤣🤣🤣
This video makes me want to start an extreme desert Rimworld run.
With so many things trying to kill you,
I swear, Aussies were the original “HOLD MY BEER” crew. If they weren’t so cordial and fun loving, they would have conquered the world.
@burnerjack01 well they were prisoners, thieves and opportunists who raped and almost got the native population extinguished, so no, you're wrong. They did what the spanish and portuguese did in America, what the french and british did to north America and what all europeans did to Africa
They are a tough breed
@gordocarbo
I think even the Salties are afraid of ‘em.
With all those dangerous nasty spiders crawling all over the damned place I guess that you have to be tough and fearless.
TLDW: It’s a miracle that Perth can exists as a major city in the first place.
Why is that? On settlement there was plentiful water with pockets of fertile land. But once technology allowed, there was nothing that couldn't support a large population
Hey geography man... you may want to hurry up and swap melb for syd...
I am very impressed that you use the international measurement units so the world can understand you! ❤
Stopped watching after two seconds when I saw that you don't even know where Sydney and Melbourne are supposed to be on a map!
Big deal. I stopped after one second.
AI cant even get the cities in the right place yet we are supposed to be believe they are the future. Total joke
This isn't AI. Just poor proofreading and editing
AI slop channels are proliferating though unfortunately
Laughs from Brisbane.
I'm from Darwin and my city is 2 leagues better than Bris-baine 😁
@karlk.6819 Darwin Ca? Wasteland lol
Rubbish! I rode across that stretch of coastline and back on a motorcycle in October and must have seen at least 3 or 4 people!
Bahahaha. Wow, how could you get that so, so wrong
The nullabor is a wonderful drive. And at points you can find
tracks to the great Australian bight where there are huge dunes and sandy beaches. Great camping spots
Brisbane getting forgotten again 😔
In the middle of a 200-km long conurbanation that stretches from the Sunshine Coast to the NSW border.
good
And Darwin.
Chat GPT is just a tool for companies to automate people out of jobs, it's not here to run your channel. How many other errors are in the video?
It's mostly pretty well researched. He didn't mention the pastoral industry though. But the Sydney, Melbourne switch, and the missing cities of Brizzy and Hobart were a major whoops😂
There is so much incompetent nonsense on utoob nowadays. Every one thinks they can be a content provider. Viewer beware.
They copy or "follow" everyone else who is doing the same.
Brainlessb
1.8 million views??
At least he got Australia right on the map of the world.
Sydney n melbourne wrong place!!!!!!!!!wtf
Thanks, it only took 10 seconds to work that you can't trust the info in this video. Saved me a lot of time. Being Australian it was easy to see the issue but I've never been to France so I've got no idea whether the info in the pinned French Alps video is correct. Best err on the side of caution and give the entire channel a miss.
I was thinking very similar. Well worded.
Dude you really need to remake this video... that's super embarrassing for you?
Who cares? You never made a mistake
it's for the algorithm so more people comment hahahahaha
@Mrkayacksdog Truth matters.
your initial graphic has Melbourne and Sidney in the wrong place
Being stranded out there would be terrifying
Nullarbar?
@randybeal0 at least he realised the mistake by the time he did the narrated bits 😂
Nullabaaaarrrrr