Why 95% of Australia is Empty 

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

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 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

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.

As an Australian it's hard to imagine places that have major cities close to each other

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Thanks for pointing out two of the most beautiful places in my state (Western Australia), Kununurra and Esperance are stunning!

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 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.

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.

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.

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)

Brilliant video , extremely informative, so glad I just found you. Thank you!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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!

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography/map descriptions enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.

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.

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

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.

Imagine being the Dutch and getting all the way to Australia and being like “yeah this place just isn’t hittin”

WOW, super informative and so well illustrated. Also incredible narration. Thank you xo

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.

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.

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.

masterfully produced docu! great work!

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!

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.

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.

so fascinating, just exploring this country on my visit down here, thanks for this video!

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.

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!!!!!

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*

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 😁

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!

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.

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.

Amazing video/content. It is so full of facts, that being put into context. 👍

Those 'mounins' though. lol. Great video. Very interesting. Thank you.

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.

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. 😂

Interesting video! I watched it several times.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

That is the smoothest transition to ad I’ve ever seen

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.

Hearing a huge youtuber mention so many small towns in my home state feels quite surreal, to say the least

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.

I really want to visit Australia sometime. I really like the psych rock scene there and the history and culture seems so interesting.

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."

This was so interesting. I learnt more about Australia than I did at school and I’m Australian.

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.

Incredible ... I can't get enough of this channel! AJ ... When u gonna do the Loch Ness Monster? Let's have your thoughts 😊

🤓It's actually not empty, it's filled with kangaroos.

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.

Bravo. Outstanding. Australia is a unique continent and a country quite unlike any other. Thank you for this comprehensive analysis.

We live on the Mornington Peninsula, Vic, and we only have to drive a few ks, and we are in the lovely bush😊

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.

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.

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

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?

As an Australian I'm disappointed you forgot to mention Woop Woop. Which comprises roughly 93% of the country's land.

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

Fantastic information really enjoyed this...

As an aussie i can proudly say i would never live any where else. Its nice to visit other countries, but theres just something about Australia. The people, the vastness, the climate, the coastline, the outback...we really are incredibly blessed ❤❤❤

I live in Western Australia, and the Antarctic wind we can feel here is insane. That, along with the 'Fremantle Doctor' winds, really freeze you to your core. My uncle was once out at night with little more than shorts and a t shirt and says once he felt the 'Arctic wind' as many of us call it here, he genuinely thought he was going to die. He got so desperate he broke into someone's truck (which had an open window) after jumping a fence and wrapped himself up with curtains he'd found just to not freeze to death. From what I've felt of it, too: it's no joke.

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

i used to live in a town in the pilbara, 4 hours away from newman. it was amazing and so beautiful

I live in Australia and have driven across it before, I went just over 1000km without seeing a town

At 18:02, you use a clip of an Opossum (from North America) not a Possum which is a masupial native to Australia.

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.

I stay in Indianapolis, indiana in America. Im about 2.7 hr from Chicago, Cincinnati, and Louisville. We all have relative big metropolitan areas. The smallest 1.5 to the largest at 9.5 million

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.

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.

Growing up in Australia I’ve always had a fear of wandering off and getting lost in the bush and I even live in the more densely populated parts of the country. It just feels so vast and empty of humans, it’s magical feeling tho

great video - very interesting ! Thanks

Sharp. Great video

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

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.

Damn I really dig your videos

An absolutely brilliant full of knowledge video. Many thanks

The difference between Canada and Australia having very less population despite huge portion of land is that Canada has extreme cold climate at the center and near poles where as Australia has extreme hot climate at the center of the land