Australia is BIG

[johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io]

@infobeautiful Can confirm. Is true.

The wild thing is when you fly from Melbourne to Cairns, via Brisbane. It takes you 2 hours to get to Brissy, at which point you think, well, surely we're almost there?

Nope. Now it's 2 more hours from Brissy to Cairns. It's just bonkers massive.

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@infobeautiful Australia is Ohio.

[strawhousepig@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful Maine and Ohio like, "wtf did we do? We're just states."

[axomamma@mastodon.online]

@infobeautiful Why is Austria so special it's in there twice?

[cogdog@cosocial.ca]

@infobeautiful Ohio is a fine place for Tasmanian Devils.

[aufreger@mstdn.social]

@infobeautiful
The unnamed country is Denmark

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@infobeautiful This is quite surprising to me, I've never seen so many of them put close to each other. And by the way, I thought Australia to be bigger!

[rgsharpe@sfba.social]

@infobeautiful Why does the alt text say Australia is larger than the U.S.? Are you including the Australian Antarctic Territories?

[bornach@vis.social]

@rootwyrm @infobeautiful
"Always has been"

[rexi@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful

some places measure up a little stronger...still, though, freaking huge.

#Alaska

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful And how much of it is desert?

Would it not make more sense to compare it size-wise to the Sahara?

20-30% of Australia is reasonably habitable with current technology (don't forget climate change), and actually 5% of it has >90% of the population; they all live within 50-150 km of the coast.

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful it's big but it's totally useless

[irenemoews@vmst.io]

@infobeautiful Let's hope that Trump doesn't know that!

[zebulonmysterioso@mas.to]

@infobeautiful now I understand why my ex-in-laws made such a fuss about driving to Coffs Harbour to get a break from Sydney.

[oldwoofian@beige.party]

@infobeautiful Yes it's big but it's just peanuts when compared to space.

[jackeric@beige.party]

@infobeautiful Australia is a smallish country stretched around the edge of a huge desert

[tristrambrelstaff@mathstodon.xyz]

@infobeautiful https://www.facebook.com/groups/814088272025939/posts/7591580077610024/

[chigaze@cosocial.ca]

@infobeautiful I think this is why Australians and Canadians get along: