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alright so finally let's talk Australia
I love Aussies they're like one of the
only few people in the world that can
out crazy Americans now we kind of
already explained this in the Australia
video but let's just kind of recap
Australia is basically divided into six
states and ten federal territories three
of which are internal and seven of which
are external outlying island territories
so I talked to a lot of you guys the
Aussie subscribers you helped me write
this script and gave me information so
I'm gonna kind of just report back what
a lot of you guys said and add my
research so here we go New South Wales
capital Sydney this is the most popular
state at about 7 million a little less
than a third of all Australians live in
this one state and the capital Sydney
alone holds about two-thirds of the
entire state's population basically even
though this was not the first place that
was discovered in Australia by Europeans
it's kind of like the first place where
the British started colonizing you know
this place it has all the touristy spots
it's super diverse you'll find a lot of
Greeks and Asia
and Maltese even and South Africans oh
and don't forget Lord Howe Island
belongs to them in the south it's also
home to the highest peak on the mainland
Kosciusko and it's also the source of
the longest river in the country the
Murray
according to Jagger peope Brad new South
Welshman loved to gamble and it's kind
of like a problem like half of all the
bars and clubs have slot machines in
general New South Wales is kind of like
the core nucleus business hub it's like
the uppity metropolitan part of
Australia also a huge Ackman and ac/dc
are from here Queensland capital
Brisbane I was told sometimes the people
here are called banana benders because
it's like home of Australia's banana
industry this Dutch dude landed in Cape
York somewhere you know that Horn of
Australia according to jug people max
it's where the rainforest meets the reef
and it's basically like the playground
of Australia kind of like the Florida
Orlando you know they got amazing
beaches they got the world-famous Great
Barrier Reef great snorkeling just be
careful though because on some of the
beaches you can find box jellyfish which
could kill you in minutes on top of that
they got a ton of theme parks and it
even has the tallest building in all of
Australia and the southern hemisphere q1
southern Australia the festival state
capital Adelaide a lot of you guys said
this it's kind of famous for being that
place where the guy murdered people and
hid body parts in barrels and the people
here eat crows which is why they're AFL
team is the crows that's what you guys
said I don't okay no but seriously
Adelaide is sometimes called rattle ade
it was voted one of the safest and
liveable cities and not only just
Australia but the world apparently I was
told the best wine also comes from South
Australia mostly grown in the Barossa
and Clair Valley it's also known for
having like all those salt flats and dry
lakebeds mining is huge out here
especially in opal and speaking of which
it's also home to coober pedy the
underground city cool Tasmania
colloquially known as Tazi capital
Hobart this is the only Island State out
of all the states and it's made up of
like one big island in like 300 smaller
islands I was told Tasmania is kind of
like the butt of all the jokes for
Australians they kind of treat it as if
it's like the West Virginia of Australia
according to geography Kelly the people
are basically Apple eating bogans and
two-headed mutant
the word bogan meaning something like
Hillbillies now but that's the joke but
in all seriousness Tasmania is actually
a very beautiful place it's known for
its very unique flora and fauna of
course you guys all know that they're
famous for having the Tasmanian Devil
the largest carnivorous marsupial in the
world it used to be the Tasmanian Tiger
but they went extinct in the 30s sad I
was told they're really nice people
though and apparently they make really
good cheese and whiskey I'm down for
that Victoria the Garden State Capitol
mell been not melba more it is the
second most popular state after New
South Wales and it is the most densely
populated state who's famous for a Gold
Rush in the 1850s and it was also famous
for the Eureka Stockade it was like the
only armed conflict and fight against
the British during colonial times the
biggest thing you guys told me is that
this is kind of like the arch-nemesis of
New South Wales these people fight with
New South Wales unlike everything
cricket AFL rugby even dancing like they
invented the melbourne shuffle even
architecture to this day melbourne
actually has more skyscrapers than
sydney and they hold the second third
fourth and fifth tallest buildings in
the country it's like they didn't even
want to give Sydney a chance basically
in the capital Melbourne there's like
two different types of people there's
like the hardcore sports fanatics or the
hipsters they have a huge cafe culture
and like artsy scene with like live
music otherwise they also have the 12
apostles Phillip Island where you can
see penguins yeah basically you get kind
of like this artsy coffee drinking but
highly competitive state in Australia
Western Australia capital Perth it is
the largest state area wise it basically
just takes up the entire Western third
of Australia and it's actually the
second largest country subdivision in
the world after the Sahara public in
Russia about 92 percent of the
population lives just in this little
southwest corner where the green
vegetation is and out of that group
about seventy nine percent of whom live
in the Perth metropolitan area they are
the second largest iron ore producer in
the world
about 46% of all Australian exports
actually come from this state alone
geography Keith's not our Keith a
different Keith said uh the people here
are cashed up bogans it's kind of like
those you know rich Texan oil
prospectors you know it was also the
site of the famous EMU war where
Australians fought against emus and lost
one also home to fame
bubblegum pink Lake Hillier it's also
home to the Kimberley region one of the
most geologically fascinating regions in
all of Australia rottenness Island where
you can see those quoi cos the smiling
animal and yeah just really underrated I
say check it out why not and now we
reach the territories the Australian
Capital Territory otherwise known as AC
T capital of this territory and the
entire country Canberra I will never
forgive myself for getting it totally
wrong in the Australia video it was so
embarrassing
but hey I'm redeeming myself right now
cam brah in a nutshell Canberra was
built because it was kind of like the
middle point between Melbourne and
Sydney so that neither could be the
capital and they were just like let's
find a neutral ground
even though geographically it's a little
closer to Sydney the territory is small
only encompassing about 2,300 square
kilometres it's basically where you see
all the government buildings the
Parliament building which actually looks
pretty cool a lot of you guys said the
same thing for some reason it is known
for having lots of roundabouts people
who can't build front fences on their
property
legal fireworks and legal pornography I
don't even know what to say to that I
mean that a lot of you guys wrote that
so I guess I just have to report what
you said I mean they also have a zoo
aquarium National Gallery is here with a
lot of cool indigenous Aboriginal art
for some reason they have a glass
workshop and you can like hunt for
truffles with dogs
okay sure Gervais or Jarvis Bay
territory many people don't even really
see this as like a separate territory
because it's kind of like it works with
the capital as the story goes after
Canberra was built they were kind of
like oh crap maybe we should have done
this on the coast so that we could have
access to the ocean so in 1915 New South
Wales was like okay you can have this
little Peninsula so then they took it
but then it kind of sucked because the
port didn't really function that well
and like the Train leading up to it
couldn't hold heavy Freight cargo going
up the hill and now it's just home to
like a navy base with like 400 people
so it actually cooperates with the
capital legislatively but it actually is
its own separate territory I mean it's
super small but you can still actually
do some things here like there's whale
watching there's some shops and
restaurants yeah that's just about it
small little territory the Northern
Territory capital Darwin now this is
basically the place that Australians are
referring to when they say the Outback
it is the gateway to all that interior
crazy Australian stuff that you've seen
all the movies and TV shows and
magazines obviously it's home to the
most famous Natural Landmark Lulu
or irons rock there's a lot of other
cool natural sites too like the Madonna
thermal pools and even though it doesn't
have the highest population of
Indigenous Australians it has the
highest population per capita somewhere
around 10% and now the external offshore
island territories Ashmore and Cartier
it's basically a bunch of empty sand
banks and sand islands and coral reefs
in the middle of the ocean 1974
Australia signed the memorandum of
understanding it kind of allows
Indonesian Fisher's to go around the
area and fish and go to the islands for
shelter and visit grave sites it is a
Marine Park however it also kind of acts
unfortunately as like a place for human
smuggling and the government has been
kind of monitoring this area for a while
the Australian Antarctic Territory I
mean technically no capital but the only
place of residency would be Davis
station and it's actually the largest
territorial claim on Antarctica by any
nation and yeah basically you know
research and scientists there was some
controversy with some illegal Japanese
whaling ships that passed by the area I
mean what else can I say I mean it's
Antarctica you know you know what it is
Christmas Island capital flying fish
cold I actually did a video on this a
while ago check it out if you want it's
a fascinating Island there's only about
2,000 people but it's very diverse every
year the island experience is a huge
crab migration they even built
barricades and like a bridge that they
can use so that they don't get crushed
by cars they are also known for having a
former detention center that held asylum
seekers yeah it's a pretty cool place
off the beaten track the Koko's or
Kealing islands capital West Island they
also go by pool upin Jong Coco's
referring to all the coconut trees that
can be found on the island and Kealing
because it was named after the guy that
discovered it it's made up of 27 coral
atolls only two of which are inhabited
altogether there are only about 600
people mostly Malays they're descended
from the workers that were brought over
by this Scottish guy who decided to
kinda he was a merchant he wanted to
develop the islands - for a plantation
the Coral Sea Islands there is no
capital but the only inhabited island is
Willis Island it only has like four
people on a weather station their job is
to like monitor the weather other than
that though the only other thing known
about this place is that in 2004 there
was like a bunch of protesters that
tried to make their own micronation was
called the gay and lesbian kingdom of
the Coral Sea Islands even though it
wasn't really much of a serious claim
and it was just more love like a
political statement it actually gained a
lot of publicity
the herd and McDonald Islands completely
uninhabited but Atlas Cove is kind of
like the place where people go to camp
out and research most Ozzy's learned
that this is the only place in Australia
where they have active volcanoes it's
actually closer to Africa and Antarctica
than it is to Australia freezing cold
peaks covered in ice most of the year
and actually Mawson peak on her island
is technically the tallest point in
Australia if you consider it but yeah
and speaking of which Mawson peak on
hurt Island actually creates this weird
vortex shedding effect on the clouds
when they pass by but otherwise yeah the
only living things on the island would
be seals and penguins you actually need
permission from the Australian
government to even come here because
it's a Nature Reserve it would be a real
challenge to come here but really cool
to document it don't you think
and finally Norfolk Island Capital
Kingston this one is interesting first
of all they are famous for the Norfolk
pine which grows here it's even on their
flag they export it a lot especially to
mainland Australia for Christmas time
second just like many other places in
Australia it started as a penal colony
then it was closed down and abandoned
and then the extra mutineers from
Pitcairn Island came over and resettled
it there was like 200 of them so there's
kind of like a link between Norfolk and
Pitcairn amongst that crew were some
Polynesians they mixed in and today
there's kind of like a weird fusion
British / Polynesian culture they even
speak their own Creole yeah basically
the people on the island today are
mostly descended from those mutineers so
that's it that's all 16 states and
territories however I do kind of have to
mention one more thing this is probably
gonna offend some people but it kind of
has to be said Australia kind of still
in a way thinks New Zealand is like
still theirs according to Section six of
the Australia's Constitution Act it says
the states shall mean such of the
colonies of New South Wales New Zealand
Queensland Tasmania Victoria Western
Australia and South Australia and they
just kind of left it there
but when Kiwis see this they're like hah
nope good luck you're on your own in the
end Australia is pretty much unlike
anywhere else on earth and can you
imagine what the first European
colonists must have thought when they
landed on this area they must have
thought it was like a completely
different planet
like what like hopping pouch animals and
like duck-billed beavers
and scape wise and people wise beautiful
people of great culture thank you for
watching this video I had fun making it
stay cool stay tuned
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