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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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, 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.

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)

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 may be an Aussie, yet I respect how you have explained it, plus Australia has many native animals including kangaroos, wombats and more