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Climate Analogues of Australia

March 26, 2017 4 Comments

Climate Analogues of Australia

Map created by reddit user triton1982

You probably already know Australia is a relatively hot country, but the map above shows how the clinate of its various regions compares to other places on earth (including cities).

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Habitability Map of Australia From 1946

August 6, 2016 Leave a Comment

Habitability Map of Australia From 1946

Map source Vrroom, by the National Archives of Australia, an agency of the Australian Government

The map above shows how habitable various parts Australia are with respect to agriculture and livestock. The scale goes from god agricultural and pastoral lands to the rather direct ‘useless.’

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Half of Australia Lives Here

August 18, 2015 14 Comments

50-50-Oz

Map created by reddit user lanson15

The 3 areas in blue above, contain roughly 50% of Australia’s population, which means that the area in white contains the other 50%.

For those that don’t know their Australian geography the 3 areas are:

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Filed Under: Australia Tagged With: population

The Theft And Return Of Australian Indigenous Land 1788 To 2013

June 22, 2015 6 Comments

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Map created by Jon Altman from the Australian National University, Canberra

The map above shows that between the establishment of the British penal colony of New South Wales in 1788 and the mid-1960s, Indigenous Australians were deprived and dispossessed of virtually all their land.

According to Jon Altman, who created the map, this theft was justified using a number of reasons including:

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Filed Under: Australia Tagged With: Indigenous


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