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| 1s | when you start to think about the sheer |
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| 3s | size of Australia it's a bit like trying |
| 6s | to wrap your head around the vastness of |
| 8s | the ocean or the endless expanse of the |
| 11s | Outback sky on a clear night Australia |
| 15s | is enormous and it's often not until you |
| 18s | try to Traverse this wide Brown land of |
| 21s | ours that you truly appreciate its |
| 24s | scale let's put it into |
| 27s | perspective Australia is the world's |
| 30s | sixth largest country covering a |
| 32s | whopping 7.6 million square km that's |
| 37s | about 2.9 Million square miles for those |
| 39s | who think of those |
| 40s | terms to give our friends overseas a bit |
| 43s | of context consider this you could fit |
| 47s | 27 European countries within the borders |
| 50s | of Australia with room to |
| 53s | spare imagine that all those cultures |
| 57s | languages and Landscapes snugly fitting |
| 60s | with within the boundaries of our single |
| 62s | nation and then there's the comparison |
| 65s | with the United States Australia is only |
| 69s | slightly smaller in land area than the |
| 71s | us but here's the kicker while the US |
| 74s | has a population of roughly 340 million |
| 77s | Australia has just about 27 million |
| 80s | people that's a lot of space per person |
| 83s | which explains our sprawling deserts and |
| 87s | Wide Open |
| 88s | Spaces traveling across across Australia |
| 91s | is an adventure in itself a road trip |
| 94s | from Sydney on the east coast to Perth |
| 98s | on the west coast is about 3,900 km or |
| 102s | 2,400 M that's about 1,000 km further |
| 107s | than driving from London to |
| 110s | Moscow and if you're journeying from the |
| 113s | top to the bottom from Darwin to |
| 116s | Adelaide that's about 3,000 km which |
| 119s | would take a good 32 hours to Traverse |
| 123s | by |
| 124s | car but here's the thing about |
| 126s | Australia's size it's not just about the |
| 130s | distances it's about the diversity |
| 132s | within that space you've got tropical |
| 135s | rainforests in Queensland vast deserts |
| 139s | in the outback snowy mountains in the |
| 142s | New South Wales in Victoria and |
| 144s | everything in |
| 145s | between the variety of Landscapes and |
| 148s | ecosystems across Australia is as |
| 150s | staggering as its size this immensity |
| 154s | has shaped our way of life in all sorts |
| 156s | of ways it affects everything from our |
| 159s | infrastructure and transport to our |
| 161s | sense of |
| 162s | community in the more densely populated |
| 165s | coastal cities life is fastpaced and |
| 169s | vibrant but in the rural and remote |
| 171s | areas there's a slower more laidback |
| 174s | Rhythm where the sky stretches forever |
| 177s | and the Horizon seems endless |
| 181s | and yet despite its size or perhaps |
| 184s | because of it there's a sense of |
| 186s | closeness among |
| 188s | Australians maybe it's the shared |
| 191s | understanding of living in land so vast |
| 193s | and varied a mutual respect for the |
| 196s | distances we travel and the Landscapes |
| 198s | we love it's like being part of an |
| 201s | exclusive Club where the membership fee |
| 203s | is understanding just how small you are |
| 206s | in comparison to the country you call |
| 208s | home this fastness also Fosters a unique |
| 212s | kind of resilience and self-reliance |
| 214s | among |
| 215s | Australians in the remote and rural |
| 217s | areas where your nearest neighbor might |
| 220s | be hundreds of kilometers away people |
| 223s | learn to be resourceful to solve |
| 225s | problems on their own and to look out |
| 227s | for each other in ways that City |
| 229s | dwellers might never |
| 232s | experience this a comaraderie born of |
| 234s | shared isolation a community spirit that |
| 237s | spans great distances |
| 240s | but it's not just the landscape that's |
| 242s | spread out it's the sky too the sky |
| 245s | seems bigger the stars brighter and the |
| 248s | sun sets more |
| 250s | Vivid there's a sense of openness not |
| 253s | just on the land but above it as well a |
| 256s | reminder of the natural beauty and the |
| 258s | wonder that surrounds |
| 260s | us this Grand scale also lends itself to |
| 264s | a certain kind of humility when you're |
| 267s | faced with the endless Horizons of the |
| 268s | Outback or the vast rolling waves of the |
| 271s | Southern Ocean it's hard not to feel a |
| 274s | bit small a bit a struck by the |
| 277s | magnitude of Nature and the world and |
| 280s | yet there's a comfort in this |
| 283s | vastness it's in the quiet the space and |
| 286s | the freedom it's in the knowledge that |
| 289s | no matter how busy or crowded the world |
| 292s | might seem there's always somewhere to |
| 294s | go with the only sounds of the wind and |
| 297s | the trees the chirping of the birds and |
| 299s | the rhythmic pulse of the Earth itself |