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Why 95% of Australia is Empty

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    Fear of populous Asian nations, intensified by Japan’s 1942 bombing of Darwin, turned population growth into Australia’s security strategy.
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    Privately owned Anna Creek is larger than Israel, yet about eight full-time employees manage roughly 10,000 cattle there.
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    Around 90% of Australians live in urban areas covering just 0.22% of the continent.
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    The 1850s gold rush brought immigrants equal to 2% of the British Isles’ population and more than doubled Australia’s population.
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    South Australia’s Pastoral Unincorporated Area is roughly France’s size, with about 3,750 residents and 178 square kilometers per person.
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    In 1788, Australia’s Indigenous population was about 650,000, vastly smaller than every other inhabited continent’s population.
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    Nine of Australia’s ten hottest recorded years have happened since 2005.
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    Australia’s weakest-flowing great river system still supplies drinking water to roughly 3 million people.
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    Rising seas flooded Sahul around 10,000 years ago, severing the land bridge between New Guinea and Australia.
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    About 85% of Australians live within 50 kilometers of the coast, leaving Australia’s interior extremely sparsely inhabited.
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    Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide together hold nearly two-thirds of Australia’s entire population.
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    Without very tall mountains, Australia has fewer landforms that lift air high enough to cool and produce rain.

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