Why 95% of Australia is Empty
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Absolutely true, being from the US I thought some of the Western US States were barren because, in some areas, you could drive 30-40 miles and not see a town or gas station. I visited a college friend from Australia and he decided to give me the full "Outback" experience, I knew something was up when he started filling the back of his SUV with gas cans. We drove close to 800 miles and saw NOTHING in the way of humanity. It was seriously like being on Mars or something
Yes, this is the way we like it.
to give perspective on how far that is to americans, imagine driving almost across the entire state of texas seeing nothing but desert? (houston, tx to el paso is 743.2 miles)
@@geddon436 Be fair about this, there is still a lot or AUS that isn’t desert ,but then a lot of it is ,cape York is all grassland and river and creek systems full of crocs and wid pigs just the way we like it ,not a big fan of crowds ,concrete and glass,the corrugated roads and bull dust keep the city folk were they belong in the city
@@gregstephens361 thats what the previous guy said "nothing"
We tended to joke about long distances in Norway, but you still never need extra gas cans between gas stations.
As an Aussie I have a lot of respect for this video, taking the time to actually explain our population density and geography. However if you asked any Australian why no one lives inland you'd get a pretty standard answer "cause it's too f***ing hot"
As an Aussie outback is freaking hot As
As someone who lived her first ten years in Australia (wasn't born there, but almost was), I actually get a huge nostalgia wave when the weather (rarely) ends up hot *and* dry. I haven't been to Aussie-land in over 34 years, and I still get that feeling. By comparison, the US east coast muggy-hot nonsense is just plain awful, and I'd trade it any day for that good ol' hot and dry of the old days. And then probably immediately want to go back inside to air conditioning, but y'know. XD
I agree at work in the Pilbara we had 2 weeks above 50 and the guys that had to work outside were dropping like flies due to the heat
You’re not wrong.
Im also an aussie and during the summer we get almost 40c days
As someone that lives in the interior of Australia the only thing I think this video forgot to mention explicitly is the wild temperature variation. It's currently negative 5 degrees where I live and in 4 months time it's likely to be 35 degrees plus. And I live in one of the more reasonable areas of the country. Australia is a harsh unforgiving environment with a lot of dangerous things to be aware of
Yes and suffering badly from climate change.
Canberra gets to -8° in winter and 38° in summer, so it’s not that different
I've been in Canberra all my life. Got as cold as -12c in the 1980's to a max of 42c a few years ago.@@skiller7790
I have been living in Toronto, Canada, for 50 years, was born and raised in Hong Kong, with sub-tropical climate. Toronto sits on the edge of Lake Ontario. In January and February, daily highs could be -30 Celsius on a handful of days, while in July and August, it could be a sweltering +35 Celsius. Canada is by and large a socialist nation, with punitive taxation. Despite the occasional harsh climate, I am still proud to call Canada home.
Sounds like New York
I’m an Aussie and I really do appreciate the effort that you have put into this video. Without watching the video I can confidently say that people in Australia live on the coasts because it’s more habitable with the beaches and it isn’t anywhere near as hot. Not many people live in the centre and nearing land due to the heat and how unbearable it would be to live there. The outback is basically desert where no one lives.
Personally, as an Aussie, the outback is different to desert. The outback is where stations are found.
Sorry but Australia is an occupied land that belongs to the Maori/aboriginals, theres no difference between Israel occupying Palestinian lands than UK british killing aboringals and taking thier lands. White australians are nothing more than immigrants/occupiers
@@emilyvickery8081might seem different but its the same as the sahara but just red.
As an Australian it's hard to imagine places that have major cities close to each other
Then you should visit the Netherlands...
Or the northeastern US
Europe can be quite silly when it comes to cities being close to each other. Even here in the UK, we have 70 cities, 52 of which are in England, which is around double the size of Tasmania, a state that only has, what, 4 cities? Just here in London, we have 2 cities next door to each other, those being the City of London proper, and the City of Westminster. Then within 65km of them we have Southend, Chelmsford, and St Albans, the latter of which is barely 10 miles outside of Greater London. Then you have other places in Greater London (and the GL built up area) like Croydon and Guildford that have been vying for city status for years, because of how big they are for towns. Overpopulation everywhere, despite also having lots of empty space.
for me its hard to imagine such big distance between cities in the same country. In Europe you drive 300 km and you are in another country :D
brisbane to gold coast be like brrrrr
I remember reading a book about AC/DC and they said before they were extremely famous whenever they toured in Europe they would laugh when other bands would complain about traveling a few hours between cities because they were use to driving thousands of kilometers between shows back in Australia.
As a kid i lived on the Highway to Hell, about 400m from the Leopold Hotel in Bicton
@@bluedogtransportwa wait the highway to hell is an actual place?
@@bluedogtransportwa I did not think tthat id see someone talk about that place (its near where i work but hadnt heard of it until i started working there) on a random youtube comment. I guess i live and work basically on the highway to hell now lol.
First band I ever saw live in person at 6 years old. They were all in their 50s and 60s at the time, but Angus Young still jumped out and swung around on a giant bell rope when hell's bells started
Travling from one city to another in Australia is equivalent to traveling countries in Europe lol
Victorian Aussie here. Did not know how vast Australia was until I lived in the WA outback about four hours north east of Kalgoorlie back a few years in the Great Victoria Desert. Though dry it has a beauty all of its own! WA Outback is a very different life style. I lived on a cattle station (ranch to the Yanks) of 500,000 acres. The station north of us is 1.5 million acres! I was the only person living on 500,000 acres! Had about 50 native sandalwood trees growing with in a mile of the homestead. I loved the serenity.
The map work in your videos is stellar. I love love love maps and you do a fantastic job of showing data in an easily visual way so it’s really easy to grasp.
My favourite fact about the vastness of Australia is the fact that one of the country’s worst ever forest fires which destroyed over 1.5 million hectares of land in the early 20th century happened in such a remote area that no one even noticed it
Was it in victoria?
@@Sloppyjoe7390 in the 1910s
Ash Wednesday yeah?
@@johnnyjohnnyhottiethottie8345 Victoria is too small to be remote.😂
@@heatherfruin2371 I don't know nothing about hectares and stuff, all the states are big up close.
I have circled Australia clockwise, starting and ending in Melbourne. It took me one year, working along the way to fund my travels that way. It was the adventure of a lifetime. Landscapes so vast and endless that you feel like the only person in the world. A beauty so rough and pristine that ten years later, I still dream of going back.
That sounds amazing. do you have any videos or blogs about it?
Whenever you're ready mate. We're still here ;)
I circled Australia too, but the other way around! Video is on my channel if anyone is interested
@@nomojo1110 Good to know! One day I will return for sure!
Stolen generation didn’t help improve numbers
As an Australian Im thrilled that you made a video explaining why no one ever tries to invade us. Japan tried once and rumours tell me they're still trying to their way back out.
😂
Actually, the Japanese DID seriously consider invading. But the decision was that although the country would be easy to capture trying to hold it would require too many resources due to size. Yamamoto himself made the final decision.
Nah that's far from happening, The closest thing Japanese people will do to invading will be scouting parts of Australia for a Pokémon game (they do this with every location they base their games off), they have been teasing or hinting it for years. But it's unknown when exactly it will happen
Thanks for pointing out two of the most beautiful places in my state (Western Australia), Kununurra and Esperance are stunning!
Accept tropical Australia is stinking hot I hated it there for a year I spent
As an Aussie travelling in Europe, it's mind-boggling to travel by train for just a few hours, and you're in another country. Whereas in Australia, the same time and distance, you'll still be in the same state. The most ridiculous was how Vienna and Bratislava, two capitals of two different countries, are only half an hour apart. Netherlands was the most insane, where all the cities' metropolitan areas have merged together and the whole country is basically one large metropolitan area.
haha that funny to read! Me as a Dutch guy would say i live "in the middle of nowhere" as i need to travel atleast 4 kilometers to get to a supermarket. Just seeing Australia is so high up my bucketlist, it isnt even funny. I just really love the general idea of everything there except for the dangerous animals. Here in the Netherlands you can just walk into a forest and not be affraid to end up as lunch for a bear or another hungry creature hahaha. Australia, im coming for you! sometime soon, atleast, i hope...
@@upeletix5543 I won't beat around the bush with you on dangerous animals here in Australia (where some Aussies enjoy pulling your leg). Basically don't fuck with the wildlife and they won't hurt you. Sometimes, there will be the odd animal that might be a hazard. These could be birds like Magpies or Plovers (mating season especially) or maybe something like a lizard (blue-tongue, frill-neck), spider, or snake. Otherwise, the Australian wildlife is actually pretty beautiful when you get to see and know all the animals. If you have someone else with you there shouldn't be any problems or trouble and you may feel safer especially if you're visiting. Just for fun, if you don't know this already, I thought there might be some Australian animals you might like to see! Kangaroo (many species), Emu, Koala, Echidna, Platypus, Wombat, Kookaburra, wild budgerigars, lorikeets, all the varieties of parrots and cockatoos: king parrot, sulphur-crested/white cockatoo, galah, corella, cockatiels (wild ones especially!) etc. Currawong, Quoll, Quokka, Possum, Tasmanian Devil, Crocodiles (fresh water and salt water), I guess there's sea life too but you can try eating some Barramundi if you want it's a nice fish, and I guess if you really want to see them, Dingoes (but they're just wild dogs).
And in Australia you can spend a whole day driving and see nothing of interest.
In Europe, if you drive for 3 hours you go to the next country. In America, if you drive for 3 hours you go to the next state. In Australia if you drive for 3 hours, you go to next small city.
cool!
As an Aussie, the mountain thing hit home because going overseas and seeing actual mountains broke my brain, in the same way I'm guessing that all our emptiness hits those who come to visit from very crowded cities/countries.
I remember being so shocked at how the mountains between Osaka and Nara took up half the entire sky. It was very humbling. With here, access is the main problem and the emptiness doesn't mean much if you can't really get out there most of the time.
Haven't been to the snowy mountains region then mate, Can tell you, it's a similar experience to European mountains. And most times of the year can feel like europe as well.
I live in a valley in Italy and when I travel or even simply pass through the Pianura Padana it feels weird to have such low horizon, I rarely see proper sunset from where I live because I have mountains in the west!
I'm Aussie but I've been to NZ which has "proper" mountains, ⛰️🏔️
It's the exotic plants in Australia that break my brain.
This is excellent and informative on the history, geography, population and so much more about Australia. Thank you for all your hard work. I really enjoyed it.
Hello 👋👋
Brilliant video , extremely informative, so glad I just found you. Thank you!
Fun Aussie Facts: - The Australian Alps get more snow on average than the Swiss Alps - Melbourne has the largest Greek population outside of Greece - Tasmania has the cleanest air on the Planet - The Australian accent developed from decades of heavy drinking (NOT TRUE, thanks to the people who commented telling me I was wrong) - More than 25% of Australian citizens were born in other countries - The first police force was made of the "best behaved" convicts - If you visited one new beach every day, it would take you 29 years to visit all 10,685 of them - Australia was the 2nd country on the Planet to give women the right to vote (1902)
That ain't the reason the general Australian accent is the way it is... it was seemingly due to all the different English people needing to understand each other better with all their different dialects, so they would slow their speech down. Over time this melded into one general accent. Not that Australia only has 1 accent, but you get the gist.
Great facts! Except that accent one. That’s absolute horseshit.
Interesting, thank you!
“European” colonizers are PIRATES! No one mention this and the accent/language/attitudes of thieves “mate”.
Another interesting fact about Australia: nobody outside of Australia gives a shit about Australia.
When I was roughly 12 my parents decided our holiday that year would be driving from Melbourne to Perth. Took us 5 days, stopping at night. 5 days across the Nullarbor, in the back of a 3 door car with no air conditioning. Not sure I'll ever forgive them.
Hi
So much nothing to see!
😂🤣
Shouldda told them to only drive through the nite, and stay in air-con motels in the daytime.
Your parents must have had THE strongest relationship to get through that, with at least 1 kid no less.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography/map descriptions enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.
Thank you for using our tiny Island as reference! Aruba🇦🇼❤ Loved the visuals.
I went to Japan in 2004. I was told at the time that the Tokyo metro area had a population of 24 million which was more than Australia's entire population at the time. It's hard to imagine all of Australia's population being able to fit in one city. Vice versa there's an Aussie movie called The Goddess of 1967 starring Rose Byrne where a Japanese man comes to Australia in search of a rare french car. He has to go into the Aussie outback and he marvels at the amount of space there is in Australia as he's so used to being crammed up in Tokyo. It's an interesting juxtaposition.
Great movie. Sadly, almost unknown.
fun fact: Goddess' translation is called Déesse and the car in question is a DS which has the same pronunciation
The population for example of Puerto Rico at 3 million fits the distance approximately between where I’m at in Little Rock Arkansas to Memphis Tennessee. Do know Arkansas as a whole as about 2 million people in the whole state. Is truly wild
The population for example of Puerto Rico at 3 million fits the distance approximately between where I’m at in Little Rock Arkansas to Memphis Tennessee. Do know Arkansas as a whole as about 2 million people in the whole state. Is truly wild
Mark Tokyo metro is up to about 38 million now
I realised how big australia really was when flying from Brisbane to Bali and 80% of the flight was over the outback. Hours and hours of desert
But is it possible to shot porn in desert 😂😂
Yep not much out There
How old are you
@@akunnyampah im at least 5 years old and less than 90.
@@eddiew2325 he didn't ask your age
WOW, super informative and so well illustrated. Also incredible narration. Thank you xo
Respectfully: I love how you use strong enunciation in your narration to make geography seem more interesting/important than it is at times. Lol Keep up the good work.
As an Australian, I could say that the reason majority of the continent is uninhabited is because of the heat, or the dry, or the lack of fertile soil, or the large array of deadly animals, but, any true Australian worth their salt knows full well that the REAL reason the size/population ratio is so disproportionate is because the Emu's pushed us all to the coastal areas in 1932. RIP to those brave souls who died fighting for what little land we managed to hold from those ravenous birds.
Strewth, we salute your efforts against those land grabbing Emus.
in Australia there were 3 great wars, not two
F's in chat for the brave Australians lost in the emu wars.
R.i.p
I believe with science interior aus can be settled.
As a Dutchman the idea of driving for three hours and not skipping a border or two is utterly alien to me. I hope to visit Australia soon.
There's nothing "soon" about Australia! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I drover for 16 hours, well I didn't, a buz driver did, but for 16 hours, no petrol station, no restaurant, nothing but desert.
That’s why I LOVE the USA and living here despite its problems. It’s crazy to me how all of the 50 states are entirely different and everybody talks different/different traditions and ways of life/cooking styles. It’s amazing to me that ALL of the European Union is only half the size of the United States and Europe as a whole is just a tad bit bigger than the USA. It amazes me traveling through a state and realizing that just that one state is bigger than entire countries in Europe. All the landscapes/climates are entirely different and it’s crazy to think it’s all in one single country
Don't lol
@@analyticalmindset 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think it's safe to say that the Polynesians visited the continent long before the Dutch discovered it. Given how good sailors they were for their time and that they discovered basically every other plot of land in the rest of the Pacific Ocean
Actually, it was Indigenous Indonesians called the Makassan people who visit the top of Australia way before the Dutch. Most people of Oceania, including Polynesians, came from the Lapita people from Southeast asia. So you mean Asian people.
What a waste, killed millions of aboriginals to do NOTHING AT ALL with it
@@tillstar74 Bit of a silly thing to say. Polynesia and the people that inhabit Polynesia are distinct from Lapita people that you allege that they came from. That's like saying all humans came from Africa, so everyone should be called African people. He definitely doesn't mean Asian people, he means Polynesian people. Its also not strictly true that Lapita people are the only people that Polynesians descend from, seeing as proto-polynesian language(The language that all Polynesians descend from) is as far reaching as Hawaii, beyond the range of the known distribution of Lapita people.
Actually our (now Australian) Blackfellas landed here 65,000-odd years ago. From Africa: probably via Indonesia.
Yea but what did they bring to the Island? The stone age? Whites brought Civilization
Aussie here 🙋♀☺👋 Can confirm.... you nailed it with the explanations in this video! 👌 A few of the town pronunciations were incorrect but we'll forgive that ;-) hehe Both my parents were born in Europe but emigrated to Australia with their family during that big emigration period you mentioned in the video. They met in Australia, had me in Europe, then returned to Australia with me when I was still a baby. Although all I've ever known is Australia (and I consider myself a true-blue Aussie); my culture, heritage and birthright also connects me to Europe. I have returned to Europe many times to visit family and have travelled fairly extensively throughout the region. There is no doubt that the differences in geography, logistics, culture, history, etc are staggering. Due to the distance Australia is from many places, a number of Australians have never travelled internationally and, those who have, tend to limit their travels to more nearby places such as New Zealand/Bali/Malaysia/Thailand/Singapore. Or they will go on cruises to places such as the South Pacific. As you mentioned, many Aussies have connections to the UK through family and I find that those who have English roots do tend to travel far more extensively. This is because it is only a couple of hours from the UK to places like France, Germany, Spain, etc. For those Australians who have never left the country due to cost/distance I think it is extremely difficult for them to comprehend just how different it is here vs other places in the world. And, likewise, I think it is extremely difficult for Europeans to understand the vast distances we deal with here. And how different the landscape is. You can drive here for LITERALLY 12hrs and not see a single soul. Just stark, barren, sun-burnt flat land for as far as the eye can see. I've travelled almost the entire continent of Australia and it really is like an alien world sometimes. If they want to figure out how to live on Mars, they should come to the Australian outback. It is an unforgiving landscape with wild temperature fluctuations, little shelter and virtually no infrastructure outside of the capital cities and surrounding coastal regions. If they can figure out how to terraform our barren inland areas into thriving metropolises with water and greenery then they can do it anywhere!
It's not difficult for Europeans to understand, it's just a case of looking at a map.
I think there is a difference between knowing something intellectually (by looking at a map) and experiencing it for yourself. Every single European friend and family member who has visited here (dozens at this point.... all of different ages, from different countries and at various levels of global travel experience) have commented on the fact that they never understood just how vast Australia was and the distances between everything until they experienced it first-hand for themselves. Even our American friends have commented (and the US is huge!) I think it's because it's not just the distance everyone is experiencing but the fact that we are so sparsely populated here. The US & Europe are dense. So the distances don't feel so vast because there are constant landmarks. Here you can go for hours and not see a single person, car or man-made structure. There aren't even sealed roads in many parts! A lot of countries have deserted spaces like that but here it is much more common. Our coastlines are heavily populated but go 3hrs inland and it starts getting very empty. I am yet to visit another country that has a huge empty centre like this one. It's pretty interesting and unique in that regard.
@@4WhatItsWorth well I certainly understood before I visited. The outback can get incredibly boring, as can many of the cities in fact. They're a bit provincial.
I agree. It depends on what you are interested in. For some people it is a life-changing experience. For others it can definitely feel boring and provincial after you've been exposed to other places in the world.
I live in Perth, Western Australia. Recently drove to a place called Mt Augustus roughly 1000km north east. I did not see a drop of water or human being outside of a few towns of 50 people. To get to the nearest major city (Adelaide) would take at least 24 hrs driving. The isolation is insane.
It's a 30hr drive from Perth to Adelaide
Australia needs more people
You might want to have a HSR line between Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane. It's not safe to drive so much. You'll be totally screwed in an emergency in the wilderness.
Why not invest in creating a man made rivers from the coast through the interior? The fresh water needs to be distributed.
I live in the Pilbara. I was hiding from you, hehe.
They're comparing to the US, they should compare to Canada. It's the second largest country in the world with a population of 38M, 95% of this population lives within 100 miles from the US border, leaving most of the land uninhabited and largely unexplored. There are areas of wilderness in Canada larger than many countries that have likely never had people walk upon it, including thousands of fresh water lakes with who knows what kind of undiscovered species dwelling within them. I've seen those channels which compare nations and imo Canada is the colder, forested equivalent of Australia.
EVeryone in the world knows the US so it's better to compare to them over Canada...which is an invisible nothing country.
Speaking of North America, may I remind you the fact that Native Americans population in their motherland, the Continent of America before European Colonizers arrived was around 15 millions, while European population in their motherland, Continent of Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native Americans population in their motherland is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continent of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'! A sad truth.
@@mrsalwaysright6478 why is that sad
@@mrsalwaysright6478 W Europeans
Most of Australia is too dry. Most of Canada is too cold. There're your answers.
Excellent video and very thoroughly researched thank you. As an West Aussie I think this should be mandatory viewing for all tourists. People never seem to realise the amount of travel needed to see all of the sights shown in advertising. Worst is when people decide to try drive themselves with no preparation. The amount of times I've seen/helped people stranded without fuel, spare tyres, food and most importantly water is insane and dangerous. Also our mobile reception in rural areas can be terrible. If you decide to do a road trip please be prepared! Also if you do get stranded never leave your car!!!
I may be an Aussie, yet I respect how you have explained it, plus Australia has many native animals including kangaroos, wombats and more
Kangaroos are a pain in the ass! Sorry, it just sux we see sooo many here (roadkill as well) yet never see wombats or kangaroos. I mean magnetic island is supposed to have a high no. Of koalas & when we went there recently we didn’t see any! Last time I remember seeing a koala in the wild was in primary school, 30 yrs ago.
@@tarantulasarecool try Port MacQuarie you have to be very careful on the roads because they are totally unaware of cars (in fact nearly everything)
@@tarantulasarecool Plenty around Melbourne.
@@tarantulasarecool I live in Townsville and frequent maggie a lot. If you ever go back be sure to check out the forts, there are always a ton of em up there
I live in Sydney. A while back I wanted to go camping and get away from the crowds. I took my 8yo son to a 4wd access only national park just a couple of hours drive away. We drove into a gorge and set up camp. There was no one to be seen anywhere. I gave the boy an emergency brief just in case I was bitten by a snake or injured or whatever. Just for him to sit tight and wait for the ranger to show up. He freaked out. On the third day, after seeing no one for three days he just wanted to get out of there. We drove out early, and even after leaving the national park we didn’t even see a car or truck for at least an hour on the open road. The boy was really freaking out, I was laughing a bit because it was a bit post apocalyptic and weird. Eventually we saw other people and cars and soon enough we were driving back into Sydney and all good. People live in cities to huddle together in Australia as well I think. A security thing.
Yeah, Aussie cities are kinda like big bourgeois safari hunting party encampments (like you see in movies set in Africa back int he day) situated not far from vast, vast, vast, vast wilderness. Whichever way you look. Vast ocean, vast pastoral lands, vast valleys, vast desert, vast rainforest, vast bush. And all the animals that come with that. Wild and yet city bourgeois all at the same time.
Wolfcreek is real
Is land cheep out there? How is immigration?
Humans are generally social animals.
@Elle Gelok ah yes..they need to improve on allowing citizens to protest without getting a beating. I would think that people in the Covid-19 era would want to live away from others..looks like there is a lot of land available.
Great content, Love the channel too! As an Aussie who's moved from Sydney to about 300km West of the great dividing range the line of "droughts and flooding rains" has become very familiar. It would be a fascinating deep dive for you to make a video about Australia's contemporary political and financial factors in relation to our population growth as well as how we maintain our place on the world stage. Happy 2024!
I watched this master piece of information only 30 minutes but never stopped wondering the time & energy you spent in producing the same. Am really & deeply impressed. Am proud to say that, in spite of being a Pakistani, I love Australia more than native Australians would do. I has been fascinating me throughout my life. May be the another for loving Australia is that my daughter lives there in Melbourne. Whatever the reasons might be, I am a true lover of Australia and wishes to visit it only once in my remaining life, if life allows me to as I got 62 a day before yday. No matter whether I succeed in seeing it with my eyes or not, I would always be praying for the progress, prosperity and the safety of this beautiful land.
As an australian, we are fascinated by pakistan too!
Insha Allah u will see it ahki
Imagine being the Dutch and getting all the way to Australia and being like “yeah this place just isn’t hittin”
REALLIFELORE IS GARBAGE LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 MY CONTENTS WAY MORE ENTERTAINING!!!!
"it's not the vibe"
When the Dutch had settled there at that time, the country would look completely different today!
@@Rob2 we would be speaking gibberish. a scary thought.
@@loomhigh Atleast Dutch is consistent gibberish, unlike English which is inconsistent gibberish for the most part.
RealLifeLore: "You may be surprised to learn that the reason Australia is so sparsely populated isn't because it's an isolated desert island" *spends the next 25 minutes describing how Australia is an isolated desert island*
nah man it's clear that he meant that "it's more complicated than just an isolated desert island", then goes into the immediate geography, the implications of its geography at a global scale, its urban geography, and its history. Very thorough and more than just "it's an isolated desert island".
No not really maybe you don't understand
*spends rest of the video after those 25 minutes clarifying that all of the info he just gave still doesn't explain why it's sparsely populated*
@@bingbongstudios225 that’s more of just why it’s a gigantic desert. All in all, the biggest and most relevant reason by far is that it’s a gigantic desert
@@latenightthinker4737 full of lethal grumpy wildlife and huge bugs and other crawlys that to quote a aussie mate "take some killing"
This was SO interesting! Thanks for making this informative and accurate video!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Couple of things though: Pilbrara is pronounced "PILbara with the emphasis on the "pil"" and Lake eyre is pronounced lake "air" Lake Eyre has a massive effect on our inland climate if it has water in it. We aren't just affected by El Niño/La niña either, but also the Indian Ocean Dipole. Coupled with La Niña the last few years we've had an absolute drenching from both the west, east and Lake Eyre. Would have been cool to see shots of the moon-scape around Coober Pedy so people could understand that our non-arrable land isn't just red 😁
I've driven from Sydney to Broken Hill, along the Dingo fence to Cameron's Corner, back across the top of NSW to Texas (yes, we have a town called Texas) then back down the Great Dividing Range to Sydney. At times I had to just stop and walk off the road and stand in the scrub listening to absolutely nothing. I was in awe of the silence and empty expanse. The drive took a week and I was still in the same State and I was still only on the edge of the outback. It's awful hot, awful dry and awful empty. That's why nobody lives there. I have the greatest respect for the small percentage that do.
I live in Australia. I've lived in Adelaide for the first 3/4 of my life and now I live in Sydney. Thank you for this great video I've been waiting for something like this from you real life lore! Let me tell you a story... So I was driving from Adelaide to Sydney. It's a 17 hour drive. Most of the scenery is the same and for hours you can drive without seeing anythinf but trees and road. So I was driving and suddenly saw in the distance in the middle of absolute nowhere a guy running with a wheel barrow!! I stopped my car and asked him if he was okay. He said yes and told me that he was running from Perth to Sydney. That's like running from LA to Miami Florida!! So I asked him why and he said he was raising money for cancer. I gave him $20 and was on my way. A few weeks later he got to Sydney. It took him over a month of running all day but he made it. What a story!!!!!
That’s a great story! Guy must have been in amazing physical condition to complete something like that.
@@thegteam4349 he was. He said that he was starting to slow down and his blisters were getting worse but my donation inspired him to keep running for a bit longer.
You left beautiful Adelaide, SA, for Sydney with all its problems and insane costs? Why?
@@australiasfirstmate1556 please don't make it any harder than it already is. I love Adelaide so much!!!! I plan on moving back eventually. 🥰
@@rafdahouk9341 hah....i moved from Pt Adel to the sunny coast back in 03...scored a home run there!...still, i do miss lil' ol' Adelaide and it's people, fam, friends etc... i may end up back there one day too..don't miss the cold winters and hot as hell summers tho
I see alot of videos on Australia that are badly researched and misinformed, but this video is well done man and as an Aussie i appreciate it
@@JGrant60 ? There are lot's of videos about Australia, you're just not watching them. What makes you so sure they're lying when you have no proof lmao??
What are your thoughts on UK? Do you see it as someone that tried to dominate your people or your motherland ?
@@dylanmurphy9389 Well, we see it as the country that banished some of our ancestors. But that was a long time ago. Nowadays we see it as a mate, a good friend that sometimes has a good cricket and rugby team for us to beat.
@@dylanmurphy9389 An odd question. Britain created what has become the modern nation of Australia with the first (penal) settlement. From the very first the colony obtained supplies and trade continuously - a very important fact - until it was in a position even to feed itself. Along with the form of government and membership of the Commonwealth of nations (Britain's colonial empire) it provided security and ties to "the old country". I don't believe there has been a history of political "coercion" or "domination". And of course at the beginning of the 20th century the separate colonies of Australia achieved statehood and federated to became a nation, so domination of people and motherland is not a serious question - any more than it would be if you posed the same question to Canadians. If addressed to first nation peoples you might get a different answer - but although they were usurped and variously brutaly treated they were a stone-age people and not a cohesive nation but a multitude of tribes. (It's complicated).
@@dylanmurphy9389 nowadays we don't really have any connection to the UK other than some traditional stuff here and there. We're much culturally closer to America now, pretty much all shows and movie on tv are American and there were even trump protests when he was elected. UK has zero political influence over Australia whereas America has a lot of political influence over Australia and has military bases and joint operations here to monitor China and the south China sea. Basically if anything happens to America it would impact Australia but if something happened to the UK, like Brexit, it has literally no impact here and no one cares.
Amazing video/content. It is so full of facts, that being put into context. 👍
Another major point you missed in explaining why most part of Australia is empty is that the people of Australia have to live upside down, which is very challenging thus not all people can do that
I realized just how rural most of Australia is when I took a 20 min drive out of Canberra and ended up in vast wilderness. I wonder how many other countries there are where you can take a quick drive out of the capital city and end up basically in the middle of no where for kilometers.
curiously enough, if you walk through Google Street View, South Korea also seems to be like that... even in such a small territory there are still lots of unexplored spaces... Japan too, to some extent
Mongolia outside capital is mostly empty.
I wouldn't call a 20 minute drive out side of Canberra "Wilderness". I'd call it farmland.
You must have ended up in Queanbeyan. Should've headed the other way, up into the Brindabellas, but you'd need to go more than 20 mins and get properly off the beaten track before you're realy wildernessing it. Mind you, on a day like today it might be little dfferent with the cuurent weather situation.
@@thickquinkly1560 some people would describe Queanbeyan as the end of the earth....
As an Australian visiting Switzerland, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the mountains. Because we don’t have them, I’d never seen anything like mountains on the horizon.
And yet ...in a good season, Australia has more snow than Switzerland! Australia is so big...it has almost everything that is found in the rest of the world. There are more camels in Australia than anywhere else on the planet ( thanks to a few getting loose from their owners last century! More beaches per capita than anywhere in the world...Largest coral reef in the world ...the list goes on .
Yes I experienced the same thing.
but we have our own alps?
@@brettcourtenay569 snow in Australia sucks. It’s not even comparable.
@@bbenny9033 you wouldn’t understand unless you saw it.
masterfully produced docu! great work!
as an Aussie and car geekI would like to point out that we had a thriving car industry at one point (RIP Holden) and also the fact that Australia has a lot of native herbs and spices.
Shut up, Aussie
China's coal mine now.
Hi, I live on Australia’s east coast, and I thought I let you guys know that this year we’ve had non-stop rain for the past 4 month, (during the summer) winter only started 5 days ago. So rainfall this year has been pretty wild. It’s good though because the wetter the trees, the lower the chances of major bushfires.
La Nina
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tonnes of floods tho.
that's great
aaaand floods, since wet earth is pourous and can absorb water
Hearing a huge youtuber mention so many small towns in my home state feels quite surreal, to say the least
It's really not, considering when the channel is great geography oriented, some of these shouldn't really come as a surprise
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I think I might have over exaggerated quite a bit there
Nah no over exaggeration mate I have the same feelings, it is quite surreal
Lol why mate
I think it's because there's a choice between the coast, the desert and rural towns. A place I know as the heart of what I don't call anything, but if I to I'd call it something like "The horsemen", Albury Wodonga have a lot of different towns such as Wangaratta, Glenrowan, Lavington, Eroura and many more! These are almost connected, like from Wodonga to Glenrowan is about 40 minutes. It's very cool. You also have the major cities of course, but the fact these towns are together in Victoria and NSW just amazes me, and when living there, I felt apart of a big community.
Incredible ... I can't get enough of this channel! AJ ... When u gonna do the Loch Ness Monster? Let's have your thoughts 😊
As an Aussie i can tell you that roadtrips across the continent are crazy! You can drive vast ammounts of distances across the most isolated lands probably in the world and see a handful of people if any. The sheer scale of the continent is something you can't really visualize until you're there. Go look at videos of the Nullabor plain for example. You can stand literally on the edge of the continent and look inland to no civilization for hundreds of kilometeres or you can look out at the sea where the next closest bit of land is Antractica. Absolutely insane.
What to visualize there ? Australia is the size of USA. What the so big deal driving one side to another ? Australia should be considered a huge island, way too small for a continent imo. 😁
Do y’all carry extra gas tanks with you? Seems like running out of gas would be a huge concern
@@Goorood You visualize the lack of civilization for miles.
I would imagine the lack of gas stations would be one potential concern, lack of food if one doesn't pack accordingly, places to sleep, other relief one may take for granted on a road trip in more populated areas. It's insane because it would be a road trip through days of nearly unbroken wilderness
Spot on! I took the Indian Pacific from Sydney to Perth. It is a great train ride; train enthusiasts come from all over the world to ride the train. Crossing the Nullarbor Plane was awesome. It looks a bit like southern New Mexico, except it seemingly goes on for ever. At one point the railway runs for 478 km of straight track. It is the longest stretch of straight railway track in the world.
Australia is so big. I am from S.Korea and was confused when Australians say “it’s 5 min away”, and it takes 30min. “Just around the corner” means 2km away. When you ask Korean how long it takes to get somewhere, they say something like “it takes 7 min” and takes exactly 7 min. 😂
2km is around the corner. However if I say something is 5 min away, it'll be 5 mins away.
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Literally haha it takes an hour to get to high school from where I live (and that is just not too far for a lot of people in that area including me
@@ihazdaforks yeh, "a few minutes" could be a fair distance, depending on the context it's said in, but if a number like 5 is given, it's mostly accurate with anyone I know in Australia
Just around the corner is also in Germany 2km away. But i would never say, Germany is big or empty. In my opinion it is overcrowded.
I am not joking, I know people in my town that have never been to the city before. Because it is too far away. I have never experienced a traffic jam or hold up in traffic before going to the city. And even then it is nothing compared to so many cities.
Very well researched and extremely thorough with the information delivered, surprised that the capital city of Australia Canberra wasn't mentioned, population is less than half a million, it is the head of government similar to Washington DC. There is more water accessible to the eastern part of the country but it is underground, Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest areas of artesian water in the world, underlying about one-fifth of Australia. It includes most of the Darling and Lake Eyre catchments and extends northward to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Most of its approximately 670,000 square miles (1,735,000 square km) underlie Queensland, with smaller segments extending under New South Wales, South Australia, and Northern Territory. Its floor varies considerably in depth, with bores in Queensland averaging about 1,600 feet (500 metres). The daily free discharge of water, from more than 18,000 boreholes, averages 350,000,000 gallons (1,300,000,000 litres), much of which is lost through evaporation and seepage. Distribution for irrigation, stock, and domestic use is by open earth channels and plastic tubing. A major rehabilitation project in the basin, launched in 1989, has aimed at gradually improving the prospects of sustaining the aquifer.
This was so interesting. I learnt more about Australia than I did at school and I’m Australian.
Same
Wow
Really, Need to take a road trip and see it for yourself. drive to Adelaide and then straight north up the birdsville track.
@@jeffmcdonald101 already done it
We’re we’re you I learnt this at school maybe you found it uninteresting back then
As an Australian born here I think how unique it is to be Australian. It’s such an unusual place culturally, geographically, economically and otherwise.
just remind your govt not to accept african immigrants or your entire country will collapse as fast as america filled with homeless on the streets, riots and crimes
@@loucipher7782 African immigrants are not the boogeyman of your problems, blame it on yourselves and your incompetent government from local to federal. Immigrants are always doing the jobs most citizens wouldn't and are instead chasing college degrees. You're so dumb🙄
@@anthonymcphucker8754 i am not dumb just stating facts, get asian immigrant they get jobs and build your country up, get african immigrant they stay homeless on the street and dont work and do crime. All the same everywhere. Maybe you should start getting a job too yourself and stop blaming your government for not feeding you little dummy and stay away from Australia.
Tell me more abut it
Biblical plagues of rats & mice
i live in darwin and i say that it has quite the craziest rain storms, if ya want to know how bad it can get, search cyclone Tracy and see the damage it did, the wind was strong enough to bend solid metal power lines that are very thick and designed to resist storms but clearly not strong enough for cyclone tracy
Interesting video! I watched it several times.
About the shipwreck mentioned, one of the greatest and most disturbing stories happened a few years earlier. There was a shipwreck in 1628 called 'Batavia' off the coast of Western Australia. From the wikipedia article: As the ship broke apart, 40 of the 341 passengers drowned in their attempts to reach land. The ship's commander, Francisco Pelsaert, sailed to Batavia to get help, leaving merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz in charge. Cornelisz sent about 20 men to nearby islands under the pretense of having them search for fresh water, abandoning them there to die. He then orchestrated a mutiny that, over the course of several weeks, resulted in the murder of approximately 125 of the remaining survivors, including women, children and infants; a small number of women were kept as sex slaves, among them the famed beauty Lucretia Jans, who was reserved by Cornelisz for himself. Meanwhile, the men sent away had unexpectedly found water and, after learning of the atrocities, waged battles with the mutineers under soldier Wiebbe Hayes' leadership. In October 1629, at the height of their last and deadliest battle, they were interrupted by the return of Pelsaert aboard the Sardam. Pelsaert subsequently tried and convicted Cornelisz and six of his men, who became the first Europeans to be legally executed in Western Australia, and indeed in all of Australia. Two other mutineers, convicted of comparatively minor crimes, were marooned on mainland Australia, thus becoming the first Europeans to permanently inhabit the Australian continent. Of the original 332 people on board Batavia, only 122 made it to the port of Batavia.
Wow, I’d watch a video about that
Ah yes I already heard this story, it's incredibly wild
Make a great film this would
was hoping a fellow west aussie would relay the story. harrowing thing it was.
@@MrPwnageMachine Russell Crowe's production company is working on a screenplay based on the story. It's been years though but hopefully something comes from it.
Story time! My great-great-great grandfather had an option during the Irish famine to go to Australia or Canada for resettlement. He was sad, but he wanted to leave Ireland on a bang so he got absolutely black out drunk. Head heavy with a hangover, he made it to the embassy. The gold rush that cause such a temporary spike in population caused the Australian embassy line to be so long, in his hungover state he opted to wait in the much shorter Canadian line. And thus, a rush for gold made me a Canadian citizen. Ha!
What a shame mate, you missed out 😂
@@jayebuss5562 HAHAHA
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles ☠️
both the countries are good an indian guy
An example of the butterfly effect. The lives of you and your family is very different and will be different for several generations just because of a long line.
An absolutely brilliant full of knowledge video. Many thanks
That is the smoothest transition to ad I’ve ever seen
As an Australian I'm disappointed you forgot to mention Woop Woop. Which comprises roughly 93% of the country's land.
Hehehe yeah this guy comes from Woop Woop land
I’m in woop woop on ship road
The place out beyond the black stump
@@fuzzyhair321 Hi I’m a neighbour to all of you, only a 12 hours drive up the road away at Upper Comebacktowest
Luke Kennedy ~ Australians put "ie" or "y" on the end of words to describe people and things: bikey, sparky (electrician), brekkie (breakfast), bush telly (campfire), esky, exy (expensive), hottie (hot water bottle), Facey (Facebook), kindie (kindergarten), lippy (lipstick), mozzie (mosquito), prezzie (present), biccy (biscuit), postie (mailman), pozzy (position), Chrissie (Christmas), rellie (relative), rollie (cigarette), barbie (barbeque), sunnies (sunglasses), surfies, tinny or tinnie (can of beer), tall poppies (successful people), veggies, etc.. As you call Woop Woop or "Woopy" which does mean "sex" -> that is one way to increase the population of the very sparsely populated 93% Woop Woop part of Australia.
The joke in living the outback which is generally very flat, is that when your mother in law leaves after her visit is that you spend two days waving goodbye to her as she drives away. That and the incredible heat and flies tells you why there is not that many people living in the outback.
There would have been a lot more people living in the outback when it would have been possible to build all the dams that were planned for out there. The Greens prevented it from happening because of some rare frog or another excuse. Meanwhile the Greens love the wind farms built all over the place and don't mind the tens of thousands of birds being killed by them yearly, 'because its for a greater cause'.
Best places to be western QLD
Its basically the same with my country, Canada, as most of its residents live within 200 miles of the Canada-US Border, notably the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowlands area of Southern Ontario and Quebec's St. Lawrence River area, and the rest of the country is sparsely populated due to the wide extent of its Boreal Forests and Canadian Shield. For example, one part of Canada, the Labrador Peninsula, is about the size of Egypt but home to only 120,000 people. Its Boreal Forest, rugged terrain, the high and flat environment, and the harsh winter weather conditions makes it unfavourable for large population growth. Parts of the Labrador Peninsula, especially the Labrador Sea Coast, gets snowfall levels comparable to Northern Japan during the winter.
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Is it as flat as the Mongolian steppe?
As an Indian who lives in Sydney, this video actually helps me with my grade 7 course in Geography. My mum went to Melbourne by car and it took 8 hours. But even so, the streets are pretty crowded because of this. Hope we can over come this in an eco-friendly way soon!
@@richardloostburg2637 They can live where they want.
@@pk3ah, jeets are trash
@@richardloostburg2637 Indians don't only have to live in India? I moved to Australia with my parents
@@CheetixGlitchfine than tell India to let’s millions of Whites move there. Your right to live outside of India depends on another country granting your permission to move there. Your hypocrisy is showing. White countries have the right to maintain their racial balance just like non-White nations do
@@CheetixGlitch how is life there? what job does ur mom do?
great video - very interesting ! Thanks
🤓It's actually not empty, it's filled with kangaroos.
The deserts?
As an australian, can confirm
LOL
@@DaFrostyGamer true
Is it true there is more kangaroos than people
I remember when I visited France and Belgium and was boggled when we would arrive in a new town or village after only 5 or 10 minutes on the road. On the east coast of Australia you could spend at least 30 minutes to 1 hour travelling between towns and in some parts of the country you could spend several hours travelling through the middle of nowhere to get from small town to small town.
Yeah, in Australia you can leave the cities and really just get lost in the wilderness. Very freeing.
As a 'Pom', I visited a Belgian business acquaintance (by post and phone only) of my father's, in Bruges, I told him my Dad had a 40 mile commute to work in London. By the look on his face I could see he was thinking if he did that, he'd be abroad or in the North Sea.
I've driven 13 hours with the boss, did a days work and drove 13 hours back to hit Perths 5pm traffic. Boss turned around and says "Idk how these people can sit in traffic like this everyday". Crazy, 26 hours drive for a days work haha
In the eastern states?? Pfft, try being a native West Australian and how insanely sparsely populated it is with Huge drives in between any where out of Perth
So is it common for Australians to run out of gas when trying to get to some of the remote towns?
I really want to visit Australia sometime. I really like the psych rock scene there and the history and culture seems so interesting.
Bravo. Outstanding. Australia is a unique continent and a country quite unlike any other. Thank you for this comprehensive analysis.
At 18:02, you use a clip of an Opossum (from North America) not a Possum which is a masupial native to Australia.
Possum: Cuddly lil fella who eat too much jam and make loud noises on tin roofs at 3am (and piss in your ceiling) Opossum: oh god jesus what the fuck is that why does it look like a rat but with more teeth aaaaa
Yeah, I thought it looked a bit ugly to be one of ours.
Opossum - "Muyahaha, now to become an invasive species in Australia!" Is immediately killed by a small spider.
Noticed the same thing. Thought it was strange to through a North American animal in amongst all those Australian ones. Some Americans I've noticed call opossums possums too i guess, hence the confusion maybe? Idk.
been a crazy last 9 months on east coast. one of the coldest summers ive ever experienced. its practically rained for 6 months straight (through most of summer) and winter just started and its already been very cold. one of the first summers with only like 1-2 40c+ degree days. barely even used fans or aircon which was new. with the rain had caused lots of floods, hundreds of people losing housing and many major roads being shutdown. the cold has been a welcome change but really need the rain to stop
Really? Must be tough. News stations aren’t covering anything because they’re too busy with elections and bias. :/
la nina... it will end soon.
Bout time it's rained after the last couple years
Lucky you guys have only a few days with high 40’s, while us on the West we take a brunt of high extreme weather every friggin’ summer…
Mate ya think it 1 degrees is cold haha *laughs in Romanian while in -48 degrees
Fantastic information really enjoyed this...
This is one of the very best videos I've ever seen. I didn't really grasp just how empty Australia was until I started googling road trains. Then I put the picture together. In America, I've noticed more and more people moving into the desert and homesteading. One popular vlogger bought 10 acres for $9,000. They usually begin with campers with the usual solar. Water is bought by the truckload. Industries are growing to support this movement. I wonder if this can ever happen in Australia. Or does it already exist?
the distances are too far, and like the man said, the soil is shit out there. you can't grow anything. it's not just water you need to truck in, it's everything. that gets very expensive very quick. better have deep pockets if you want to live out in the desert here
Driving outback Australia is a very unique experience. Not only is it possible to drive for literal DAYS on the *main highways* without seeing anyone at certain times of the year - but you'll also realise that there is no trees. No mountains. No water. Nothing. Everything is just straight up dead. For like 1000 miles in every direction. Towns out there have their water delivered. On a truck.
Then why do they live there.
@@blenderbanana there is a lot of stubborn people in this world
good memories as a kid and to this day of driving on the great northern highway in WA. even did a video on it
@@blenderbanana Mining towns pay very well. You can get a trade and expect to earn in excess of 100k AUD straight out of your apprenticeship.
@@xero2715 Course Mining things like black opal is a major gamble. Theres a video about Australias Black Opal mining industry and how a lot of people who tried to mine for it go broke.
One thing i'd like to add about the Murray-Darling basin, as an australian citizen, is that much of the northern parts of the basin, at least in NSW, are dominated by cotton farms that suck up an astronomical amount of the basins' water, especially when compared to other crops and that is compounded by cotton farm owners illegally creating entire lakes of "storage water" to sell at auctions like one would with stocks. This has only accelerated and exacerbated the effects that climate change has been having on the system and is a major part of why people living in rural areas in the basin have been moving to the cities. They dont _get_ any water and when they do, its incredibly polluted and nigh undrinkable from other negligent practices done by people living closer to the coast.
You watched friendly jordies video about it..it's disgusting. I worked on a cotton farm by Goondiwindi for a week and it was insane. Except they didn't need much recently with all the rain and flooding
To put the river into perspective, that river mouth, only 1 -2% of it reaches the ocean. Why - all of the agriculture sucking it up. So what do they have to do, run dredges because there no longer enough natural flow to push out all the sediment.
You mean Queensland. It is Queensland that strangles the Darling.
Same is happening in the US and around the world. We're pushing for hemp here. Much hardier plant that requires a fraction of the water as cotton
Oh wow, cotton really is a bitch. It's why the Aral sea basically doesn't exist anymore. Sure, the ocean can't dry up, but rivers can.
The part of South Australia that you can't farm is bigger than NSW
The real reason is that there is no top soil in most of Australia. On top of this you have very low rainfall in about 80% of Austraila which doesnt allow for the development of soil. Hence, no soil, no water..you cant have a modern population based on industrialised agriculture. What you do have is a mineral province close to unequalled in the world.
I remember driving in the US and it was so weird to me that the towns on the side of the highways out in the middle of nowhere, were so close together. In Australia, you can sometimes drive FOREVER and not see a single town.
You are guaranteed to find a pub tho, ppl are encouraged to sign in so u can be found if u disappear
and the US is still quite empty compared to Europe. I live in Karlsruhe, a German city with a population of ~300k people, and within a radius of 100km, there are 9 German cities with a population of over 100.000 people, plus another one in France. And unless you're driving through heavily mountainous / forested areas, you'd probably be hard pressed to drive more than 10km without encountering at least a small settlement. That's not to say that there aren't empty areas in Germany, but even the emptiest regions in eastern Germany (the former GDR) mostly have at least 15 inhabitants per km², as opposed to Australia's average of 3.3 inhabitants/km² (Germany overall has 232).
In England our idea of the "middle of nowhere" is an hours walk from a pub. There's pretty much a town or village in every 5 mile square in the country
I wonder are there any bandits that can harm commuters
Same with where I live in England. I live in the countryside and when I drive to my grandma's house (35-45 min drive), the majority of it is the countryside where there's no settlements at all.
As an Aussie (in Perth mind you so even more isolated), it's one of the big reasons I want to travel to Europe one day. To be able to travel 2 hours to a totally new language, culture and country would be unreall. I drove ~16 hours last year and was still in the same state lmao
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Perth is where I go to for holidays because I live in Geraldton, grew up in newman
Australia is weird as hell to me. Particular as a rail enthusiast because traveling between states can be either an overnight journey NSW to VA or QD, and a fuckin weeklong trip on the Indian Pacific. Even in the US on Amtrak, for as often as their long-distance services get delayed, it usually takes a little over half that time
I've travelled to all the most popular countries/cities in Europe and have to say, it's worth every bloody penny. The rich culture and history is by far the most fascinating to me. SO much to see and do but so little time. Mind you, I've only really scratched the surface of Europe, as there's so many more places to visit. This was pre-covid and I only stopped travelling to Europe because of it. I came back from a European tour in the middle of 2018 and was going to go again when covid hit, and here we are.
I live in then Netherlands and went on a 5 day roadtrip. I was in 8 countries and visited many many cities. It was so AMAZING!!!🤣All so different! Language, culture, history, nature, architecture, food, flags, etc. My route from beginning to end: Netherlands 🇳🇱(start), Belgium🇧🇪, Luxembourg🇱🇺,France🇫🇷, Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Liechtenstein🇱🇮 , Austria🇦🇹, Germany🇩🇪, Netherlands🇳🇱(end). You should definitely do the same. Most memorable thing you will ever experience
I live in Australia and have driven across it before, I went just over 1000km without seeing a town
i used to live in a town in the pilbara, 4 hours away from newman. it was amazing and so beautiful
RealLifeLore: The desert is only a small part of the population puzzle. Also RealLifeLore: Spends half the video on stuff that basically amounts to, "yeah, there's a huge desert right in the middle there."
People need to understand that WE ALREADY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE TECHNOLOGY to revert the desertification of soils. And it doesn't need space rocket tech in order to achieve it either. It's just a matter of Conservating Humidity. As soon as you reach the point of having some vegetation with DEEP ROOTS, that's the point when NATURAL SPRINGS OF WATER sprout out of the ground !!!!!
@@FeelingShred Did you watch the video? The problem is - there is no humidity no conserve. It just doesn't reach those places.
@@TheKarabanera Rainforests help create their own rain. There’s a reason Australia use to be covered with them. I’m disappointed he didn’t touch on this because it leads people to wrongfully assume that nothing can be done about it.
@@jett2688 Something could be done, sure, but just normal methods, that work in China or Africa won't. The deserts in Australia are not a result of human-made pollution, but natural causes. Which makes it quite a bit harder to restore. They could dig up new river canals like Egypt, but there is so much land, that it would take both too much money and too much time.
RealLifeLore also completely missed Australia's massive problem with soil salinity, which is what happens when you put irrigated agriculture on parched, ancient soils. We now have more salt-affected land (no longer suitable for agriculture) than the _entire area of land under agriculture_ in the UK. There's no way this continent could support 90 million people.
as someone from western australia, i take great pleasure in listening to you butcher the name for every location :)
It's really funny Murray instead of murry
As someone from the most populous eastern state, haven't you guys succeeded yet you've been talking about it for over 100+ years.
He pronounced everything in the correct, American way. You shouldn't take pride in all your places being named in coon languages.
@@tomgreenleaf1918 Well there's an novel concept using the words correct, American and way in a single sentence.
@@AndrewinAus Oh sure, *you* are the default. Not the 330 million people who run the world. The backwater next to Antarctica with fewer people than Delhi. YOU are the one doing it correctly. Get out of here with that. You're only fooling yourself.
I am an Australian and for most of my life I lived in the populated areas. (Adelaide and the Sunshine Coast in Queensland). In 2023 I went on a trip around Australia, and as soon as I left the sunshine coast it was just barren desert, basically the whole entire way until Darwin, only with tiny tiny towns consisting of one servo and a couple broken down houses once every 4 hours. Darwin itself was tiny as well, even though it is the capital of the northern territory. After that we went to the kimberley region in western Australia, and the whole entire coastline is inhabited by no one. Literally. Not a single town or road goes through the kimberley coastline, which is 733 kilometres. To get to the coastline you had to take a helicopter ride to a tiny hotel. We went along the gibb river road there (spectacular area btw filled with gorges and waterfalls) and apart from very few tourists there was no one there either. We went along the whole entire Western Australian coastline and there was basically no one from Broome to Geraldton, and even then they were tiny towns. The coastline along that period is spectacular, filled with beautiful beaches that you cant comprehend and cliffs that drop into the ocean, and whenever you would visit a beach you would be by yourself. (The fishing was crazy too.) From geraldton to Albany along the southwest corner of Western Australia is sort of populated. There is actually some modern towns and supermarkets. Albany-Esperance is not populated at all basically, but once you leave Esperance there is NO ONE whatsoever. No tiny towns or servos. No nothing. The whole entire coastline for 730 kilometres is just tall windy cliffs that are uninhabitable and desert, and there is no civilizations or roads that go to the coastline, the only way to cross it is through a highway that turns into the desert. From fowlers bay to Adelaide there is also practically no one, even though there are beaches, just tiny fishing towns. I never truly understood how alone we are in Australia, and how crazy the climate and the creatures are outside of the populated areas. If you live in perth you are basically separated from society, even though it is a populated area, there is nobody for thousands of kilometres. The problem is that during the majority of the year in Australia, particularly in the northern parts, it is incredibly hot with no water at all, and nearly no energy sources. Also a big problem up north is that from port headland in western australia to the town seventeen seventy in Queensland, there are so many crocodiles. You cant go swimming in any pretty beach or pretty river or else you will 100 percent guaranteed will be killed by a croc. The only places you can swim are in the freshwater areas, and it is so incredibly humid and dry outside of the water. There is only two seasons in the tropical half of Australia. The wet season and the dry season. During the wet, it is just constant flooding and cyclones which stops basically everything. During dry season there is not a drop of rain, and it is so dry and hot it is basically uninhabitable. (During the wet it is also incredibly hot.) Basically all year round the temperature is above 40 degrees. Once you get south, the water gets so cold and the temperature varies during the year. Some of the year is incredibly hot, and some of the year is incredibly cold.
26.5 Million as of Aug. 2023. It's getting crowded. The Mrs and I spent most of July touring along the NSW Victorian border specifically along the Murray river which was running very high. it rained a bit last year and the water is still running through the system. Everything is green and lush......................at the moment. Great video BTW
As a kid when I found out my small rural town of Ballarat was actually considered Australia's 3rd largest inland city, it put a lot of thing into perspective for me. But gotta say, I was not aware Madagascar had more people than us. I dropped the ball on that one.
was always annoyed at people who called their cities "the small town of" especially when they lived in a capital. like bruh I grew up in newman unless you were raised in an aboriginal community or cattle station I don't believe your town was small.
Same, I didn't know Madagascar had more people either.
Ballarat has over 100k people i would hardly call it a "small rural town", it would be considered a respectable small city in most countries.
@@JS-bp7bu Ok, a respectable small city with one main street..?
@@loomhigh I literally called it Australias 3rd largest inland city in my comment, emphasizing how the population is mainly located in main capital cities on the coast line. I was actually from Smeaton anyway. Primary school closed about 15-20 years after I finished because they got down to 3 kids total. Only thing left is the pub. But just to cure your annoyance, I'm from a huge mega metropolis :)
I took a greyhound from Darwin to Alice Springs. It was a 20 hr ride and we passed through 5 or so towns with over a thousand people and a few other scattered roadhouses and such. As an american I was amazed at how empty it all was
As a Coloradan, I have seen this emptiness northwest of here in Wyoming
Gives new meaning the term "fly over states" huh?
How did he hold up?
My sis-in-law from Germany was planning to visit us when we lived in Mt. Isa and mentioned about going to the beach for a day. I said we'd need 3 days. She didn't understand, so I said, "A day to go there, a day to be there, and a day to get back. 3 days." Mt. Isa is over 900km from the nearest beach, near Townsville.
I hope you gave your greyhound a big bowl of water !
Sharp. Great video
I enjoyed the video, as it gives some insight into what others think of our tiny nation. To give you an idea of size, one of our cattle stations in central Australia, is the size of Texas and has less than 100 people in population. Also, this is the second doco about Australia I have seen, that has a had a video or photo, of a North American possum, instead of the common brushed tail possum, or the golden ring tale possum, which are the ones we feed each night in Toowoomba, on the Great Dividing Range. The North American possum is hideous in comparison.
I wonder if the Brushies and Ringies travel by bus or.... In any case, the hungry little buggers turn up here for dessert every night. And lately have been bringing a lot of relatives: which of course attracts a dozen foxes hoping the occasional possum loses it's footing on the overcrowded tree and lands on the ground. But it's true: Australian wildlife is pretty remarkable. and then, of course, there are the animals....
As an Aussie, I can confirm that it didn't rain today.
You mustn’t live on the East coast/Victoria then
YEP we get 4 seasons in one day. Hehe
lmfao
@@bofty musn’t what is this, the 1700s
Yea it stopped raining yesterday now since it’s summer going back to hot which I prefer as an Aussie
The first half of the video explains the challenges of the Australian continent very concisely. The one thing RealLifeLore missed was our major problem with _salinity._ From the time our continent started drying out about 800,000 years ago, salt started accumulating deep in our soils. Irrigated agriculture brings this salt to the soil surface. We had almost three million hectares of salt-affected land (no longer suitable for agriculture) at the turn of the millennium. Right now, the area of salt-affected land in Australia exceeds the _entire area of land under agriculture_ in the UK. If present trends continue, by 2050 it could be _17 million hectares_ of effectively dead land. So I find it hard to believe we could grow to a population of 90 million. We can't even sustain the agricultural practices of the present.
He just summarised it by saying it sucks for farming cos reasons.
Desalination with the aid of fusion power will change all that my friend. And it's not far off either. Hell we can do it already with renewable energy. It's just a lack of political will. Australia really is the lucky country. If it weren't it would have spent alot more on energy and food security.
But technologies in vertical farming will become a reality by then. Growing food in warehouses and skyscrapers. A kitchen appliance that can grow fruit and vegetables under LED lights using solar power will be next to everyones fridge in the next 5 to 10 years.
@@marcozolo3536 politicians in Australia, love money and mining. That country will be out of water before any effective measures can take place. For one of the dryest places on earth the Australian government and it's corporate overlords love wasting water and making zero effort in combating climate change.
@@bena8121 Hey, we have one of those! It's where our toaster used to be...
This is perfect and informative on the history, geography, population and so much more about Australia. Thank you for all your hard work. I really enjoyed it. More video
Outback in Australia is like going to Mars. Quite empty. You drive hundreds of kilometers without seeing a town. But those ozzies are amazing people, thank you for your kindness people down under.
Something absolutely worth mentioning is how much the cotton farming drains the Murray-Darling, which is massively contributing to the reduction of the size of the river system. Climate change is a factor, but it's actually less than the impact of the draining of the cotton farms. It's absolutely terrifying to research.
but what would the british do without their cheap clothings made out of slavery labor and out of destroying other ecosystems?? what would they do with their disposable cloths?? jesus fucking christ
Primark LOL
Give you 2 guesses which country owns those cotton farms?
@@sethman75 UK or US
@@janelliot5643 it’s likely china actually
Just a few weeks ago, I got bored and decided to look at google maps. I found myself scrolling and swiping across Australia and was speechless on how barren it looked. All that time my mind thought it was pretty populated. Fast forward to now, I've finally got my answers
lol i swear
Try street view for Oodnadatta and Innamincka. My father’s expression was “seven eighths of bugger all”.
@@robinharwood5044 Ya
Shut up
I spoofed pokemon go to Australia and loved it in aderlaid centre of the bottom coast there's an indent I followed that and found some small area. It only had like 5 poke stops but the pokemon that spawned were really hard to find anywhere else I spammed that place almost as much as seattle I think it was a city in usa absolutely full of pokemon stops. Exoloring Google maps with pokemon Go was awesome bcos you see all the sights learn alot of bs you'd skip by even walking by it. Spin the stop read it check the pic and be like oh thats cool. Then they stopped the GPAS spoofing and everybody stopped pokemon go. Lol.
Before Western capitalism there was virtually no environmental pollution let that sink in. Native people lived without damaging anything for tens of thousands of years
Very informative show. Thanks
This is really weird hearing what is considered different/suprising as an Aussie who has never travelled. I remember the first time I heard that in Europe you can drive 2 or 3 hours and end up in a whole different country. You'd barely make a dent in most states/territories.
Living in rural nsw as a kid. We used to travel 2hrs to the nearest town just to get groceries once a month
Perth is 1,600km from the nearest state border
There is the second largest desert on the earth in Australia, which is less liveable land. How can you compare the land size in this way?
I'm a vet student in australia and we have to do farm placements as part of our degree. It takes 2-4 hours to get to most placements, and you'd still be in the barren city of Perth :D
I guess the equivalent is 3 states in one day. Recently drove from SA through VIC into NSW within 90 minutes!