Why would you organize an English-language diagram like this instead of the natural reading direction?
FlygonPR on
South Australia seems to be one of the few places that is still getting a lot of inmigration from Great Britain. Interesting that Perth is actually older than Miami, Las Vegas, or Los Angeles as mayor cities.
willywam on
New South Wales is objectively the funniest possible place name for any portion of a vast desert continent.
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more interesting to start when australia was new holland and was dutch
New South Wales was just pushed around and just became a quarter smaller through the years
You forgot Jervis Bay.
What happened with Tasmania in 1825?
What’s the difference between 1859 and 1911?
You missed the part when South Australia encompassed the whole of NT as well, and also the Central Australia period.
Wasn’t having two unconnected states called New South Wales in 1859 super confusing?
(Edit: Or was it actually still one state, just not contiguous? Because the color change to red makes it look like it became two separate states.)
Fun fact, apparently there is still a provision in Australia for New Zealand to join as a state of they wanted to.
New Zealand was a part of New South Wales from 1787-1840, so technically this is another [r/mapswithoutnewzealand](https://www.reddit.com/r/mapswithoutnewzealand/?rdt=58415)
Why would you organize an English-language diagram like this instead of the natural reading direction?
South Australia seems to be one of the few places that is still getting a lot of inmigration from Great Britain. Interesting that Perth is actually older than Miami, Las Vegas, or Los Angeles as mayor cities.
New South Wales is objectively the funniest possible place name for any portion of a vast desert continent.
Crappy design, ffs. What am I look at?