Interesting fact: All Possums in Australia are called Possums based off of the Virginia Opossum. The word “Opossum” is an Algonquin loan word that was adopted by the English to describe the species. So, when Cook encountered them in the late 18th century while sailing around Australia, he named them “Possums,” derived from the short-hand term for “opossum.”

Aussie here, I fuck with this explaination. Shit's well researched and articulated. Citations in description too? fucking ace! Acknowledgement of aboriginal cultural apprehension with pictures of dead? Done amazingly!

Love how you considered Indigenous viewers! I’m Indigenous (Gandangarra) and I rarely see this kind of consideration on KZfaq ❤❤

Well as an Aussie I was quite happy with everything in this vidWAIT DID YOU SAY KOALIFY ???!

G'day from Australia, I've added this to my documentary playlist so others can enjoy and learn. This is the most accurate Australian piece I've seen. Even us locals get it wrong, but you, sir, are 100% correct. It shows the level of your fact-checking is spot on

as an Aussie, at 00:10 when you blocked out Tassie while focusing on Australia I fuckin cracked up. Tassies will fuckin hate that lol

politically it's even larger. The Australian Antartic territory is huge, but even outside of that you have the Cocos Islands and Heard and Mcdonald islands and Christmas Island. As well as the Lorde howe island, Macquarie island mentioned in the video. (pronounced Mack-Qwar-rie, btw).

Absolutely love how you included the article explaining the warning. This is something I never even knew about! Love learning knew things I wasn't expecting to learn when clicking on a video ❤

It's not easy to Koalafy, because How much can a Koala Bear?

You won me over with your indigenous content warning - coming from a apparent non-Australian, that was a pretty culturally aware sign of respect!

really nice to see the consideration of indigenous viewers!

This is such a good channel, always posts bangers

Great video! The acknowledgment of indigenous peoples was great to see, really showing an understanding and respect for the culture’s importance to our country, and the geological explanations were easy to understand and effective. Keep it up. :D

Another insightful video, well done!

love the addition of indigenous names and terms as well as waltzing matilda at the end

I enjoyed the video which brought together the various viewpoints about Australia. As an Australian, I find outsiders are already so confused about Oz that giving them the broader views through different scientific research will just bamboozle them. I doubt that many even know about Zealandia, which would likely never have been identified without the recent advances in satellite imagery. I’ve learned about the Wallace line, the Sahul, biogeography, and Zealandia in the past year. I think it will take a long time for it to filter through the education system here in Oz, since they are so busy with social re-engineering, not scientific research. Anyway, we see Australia (and the Australian continent) as the mainland and Tasmania, plus the few surrounding islands, and a slab of Antarctica. Tasmania was always known since many ships passed through Bass Strait in the early years and Tasmania was one of the penal colonies. Our history acknowledges New Zealand as our closest neighbour, despite the closer distance with the far north. Still it is quite far away and totally different in many ways. Far North Queensland was virtually impenetrable for the settlers for most of the ‘Australian’ history of European settlement. It was far from the movers and shakers of south eastern Australia. New Guinea was a protectorate of Australia and was not considered to be part of Oz since the water was the boundary of our country.

Another great video, as always!

FUN FACT: The geographic center of mainland Australia is located due west of Alice Springs.

Excellent depth and breadth in your research, well done mate! I love your work!

This is so well done! I was honestly shocked to see that you have less than 100k subscribers. 🇦🇺

You didn’t really give us a strait answer just a bunch of suggestions and ideas of we’re it could end but still a great video

great content; but the voice recording was too soft, as the sudden loudness of the outro music clearly shows.

9:29, Im jumping into oncoming traffic and youre the reason why /j This was very interesting as an australian inhabitant, did know know cockies went that far up tbh, pretty cool

Interesting and insightful video. Nice to see well-researched content.

Thanks for the video! I'm definitely going to use this to try some stuff!

The Waltzing Matilda outro is a nice touch

Loved the video. I learnt so many new things

Thank you for excellent documentary 👏

Anyone who thinks that Oceania is a continent needs to give themselves an uppercut.

When talking about the Lord Howe island, did you mean Norfolk Island by any chance? Howe is just a normal ocean island on ocean crust, but Norfolk is actually a volcanic tip emplaced on the sunken Zealandia continent, considerably further East. Norfolk's ecology is also very unique, yet tied closer to that of NZ/NC. Norfolk is a territory of Australia, but most stuff is handled by Queensland after it was handed over from NSW in the last decade or so. Fun fact, Kingston on Norfolk island is the 2nd oldest settlement in Australia, having been founded just over a month after Sydney. This makes it older than all other state capitals in the country! Also if I may make a suggestion, boost the vocal volume somewhat, I had to turn it up to hear you clearly. Great video otherwise.

Hey mate you forgot Herd Island. Between Perth and South Africa. It’s the largest mountain in the world if u count it from its base which is below the ocean surface. Loved the vid btw

This is some A+ work man!

The way I see it Australia: The Country Oceania: The Continent Boundaries of Oceania: Half of Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands

Australia also has a large territorial claim in Antartica, has a variety of islands, and used to run other places as colonies (such as PNG).

I loved this presentation. It was so well done and very well explained.

Australia has shrunk since it gave independence to its colonies, however as Australia extends to the South Pole it’s the second largest country on earth.

Wow as an Aussie I never really knew this but it makes a lot of sense Ty for this video it has sure made me learn something.

Thankyou for your disclosure at the beginning. I am a Kuarna woman from Adelaide, South Australia and it's a strict taboo in my culture. I will still watch, but it's always shocking and jarring to see images or hear names without a warning.

Interesting conundrum you raised here; the sea link to New Guinea is a heck of a lot more shallow than that separating Tasmania from the mainland. Then there is the elephant in the room you profiled; the Wallace Line. I noticed a number of prominent universities around the world still don't have a definitive answer as to where the Australian continent actually extends. As an Australian, I think I'll just let this one pass.

Very well rounded! Love it!

Warradjuri tribe here, indigenous on my fathers side also. . Giving thanx to my nation! My island home! Mx🙏❤️👍

Australia plays its football (soccer) in the Asian Football Confederation. But just to add to the confusion, the A-League has one team in New Zealand, a member of the Oceania Football Confederation, and will add another next season (notwithstanding APL collapsing). I’m pretty sure we do the same for basketball, but many other sports are still affiliated with Oceania. This can cause problems such as when the Australian handball team had its Olympic qualification reversed due to concerns about the relative strength of the Oceania group. That was also the reason why all FIFA men’s World Cups prior to the next one had no direct qualification spots for the Oceania Football Confederation, which led then-Football Federation Australia to apply to move to the AFC, into which we were duly accepted in 2006. Politically, we are a member of the Pacific Nations Forum but also an associate member of ASEAN, as well as the G20 and APEC. My hometown, Melbourne, recently hosted an ASEAN Special Summit.

No mention of Christmas & Cocos Islands? Christmas Island sits literally on the edge of the Java Trench, far closer to Java than the Australian mainland. You can even easily swim out and see the trench with merely a snorkel.

Would have been good to also include the boundary that encompasses all the islands that are part of Australia politically or the maritime jurisdiction of Australia.

Can you do New Zealand Next? (mention these please:) Auckland Island Campbell Island The Snares Anitpodes Islands Bounty Islands Chatham Islands Kermedec Islands Balleny Islands Ross Dependancy Cook Islands Tokelau Nuie and The Three Kings Islands?

Aussie here, pretty sure Indonesia will have an issue with much of the argument pointing out geological and oceanic features that make a lot of their islands ours! lol

Epic video. I appreciate the separation of the mainland from the other islands, like my own in New Zealand. A lot of people, once they figure out where we are, assume we're "just like Australia/An Australian state" when New Zealand, or Aotearoa, is a country of its own, with its own laws, cultural history, even animals! However, Australia and New Zealand are arm-linked when it comes to residency. Citizens of either country are allowed to work in either country under almost similar laws, however the ability to work in Australia or New Zealand from other countries has very high law demand (Australia, you have to do something like 12 months of hard labour to earn residency or the ability to work under residency)

Fascinating! Thanks for the deep dive 🙂

Macquarie Island is pronounced as a Scottish surname: "Mack Quarry". It's a very common name in Australia named for Governor Lachlan Macquarie who put down the Rum Rebellion and transformed the Sydney Penal Colony away from being a prison in the early 19th century.

I'm not Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander but I am happy to see the inclusivity disclaimer at the start of your video. I haven't seen it in so long and I haven't seen it in use aside from on ABC and SBS documentaries about their history.

Love your channel

1. I've heard that New Calidonia was originaly part of the Queensland Coast that splits off and drifted away at some stage. Therefore a lot of the geology and biology are similar. 2. Most of the Coral Sea reefs, cays and Islets belong to Australia and are Commenwealth teretories. They extend out more than half way to New Caladonia. 3. You showed an image of Macquarie Island which is a Sub Antartic Island belonging to Australia, however there was no mention of Heard and McDonald Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, which are also Sub Antartic Islands that belong to Australia. Heard Island is actually Australia's only active Volcanoe and support Australia's only Glaciers outside of Antartica. 4. Australia's teretorial claim is the biggest in Antartica. 5. Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean belong to Australia. 6. Cocos Keeling Attol in the Indian Ocean is an Australian Terretory. It was a British teretory, however the local Malay people were given the choice what country they wanted to belong and they voted for Australia. 7. PNG was governed by Australia before becoming Indipendant.

Great video and appreciate your acknowledgement of indigenous people like me. Just a quick pronunciation correction: “Cuss-cuss” not “cooss-cooss” - a hard letter “u” here.

i’ve skipped over your content a couple of times when it’s been recommended to me because your channel name and the topics you cover kinda give off ai generated vibes but i’m glad i decided to actually see if my assumption was right because this is a cool video

If you talk about connection arabia was millions of years longer connected to africa than eurasia. Even though now humans call it part of asia what I culturally understand but not geographically :o

Is the Wallace Line where Wallis and Fortuna got its name from? Loved this, thankyou!

Great video about something that I never thought about and I even learned something about the indigenous people in Australia!

As other aussies have said, this is really well done and a great explanation. I have one gripe, why did you say Macquarie like daiquiri 😭 its mac-quarry, like a dig site. Every city has a suburb and several streets named Macquarie, plus a university, so we know it well haha. Otherwise 10/10

Can you make a video on the debate about whether Oceania is a continent or a region.

This has always bothered me, I personally consider the edge of the continent to be the borders of Sahul, which also gives a convenient name to separate the continental landmass from the country and island. The complicated mess of Wallacea is realistically a collection of microcontinents jammed between Sahul and Afroeurasia. Similarly, the North American continental crust ends in the Cherskiy range in Russia, hence why the Bering sea was dry during the LGM (its epicontinental). Realistically, Afroeurasia and the Americas all form one gigantic supercontinent, which is evidenced by multiple groups which are spread across its 5 constituent landmasses but are excluded from the island continents and microcontinents.

The way you say Pilbara and Bali cracks me up

Continents are composed mostly of less dense rock with a chemical composition similar to granite. Oceania? Ocean is composed of salty water. Apparently in 1812 geographer Conrad Malte-Brun could not tell the difference.

But nobody ever ask how is Australia 😢

As an Aussie I am proud to be a South Indonesian

You should do this with what people consider the beginning of “Europe” and the beginning of “Middle East”

I learnt something today. Amazing video 👌

Great video. Australia also has islands far out in the indian ocean, some closer to Madagascar Africa then Australia

Great video. I just found found some of the maps quite difficult to sea with low lighting. Otherwise great stuff!👍

8:35 I didnt know Kiwis could hypothetically swim to Australia 🤔

You forgot about Cocos Keeling Islands, which is a part of Australia, and sits in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

The Moluccas are culturally part of Melanesia, because the indigenous peoples there have historically been Papuan. Nowadays, most Moluccans are descended from a combination of Melanesian and Austronesian ancestors, so they could be considered the westernmost archipelago of Oceania.

Am I the only one who ears the audio too low? I had to put the volume at 100% to barely hear

Fascinating I had no idea. Thank you for the insight. 😂

Southern Tasmania's ancient rocks matched up with the North America continent. Kind'a broke off... Yeah, nah yeah

Like nails on a chalkboard when someone says that Australia is the only country that spans a continent given Australia definitely doesn't span the entire continental shelf of Sahul.

Hey, I love this channel. As an Italian I’m might suggest “Signor Galileo” sounds and readsmuch better. Just for you info, with love

This reminds me of how Australia defines the Southern/Antarctic Ocean as directly bordering it. Posted with a link to a map but looks like YT didnt like it :P

That was really informative! Thanks from as Aussie.

Excellent educational tutorial

always good to learn more about my country 🙂

The warning at the start was for the aboriginals of australia or indiginous people and it is their culture that when somebody passes away they are not seen or talken about or anything like that in case you were wondering

First time the alogorithm has thrown this channel to me and its an instant sub and bell. 60 something YO educated Aussie and, mate, top marks for every comment and image. I've become so used to AI generated random images thrown together with anodine Chat GTP voice overs... hell, if this is an AI channel, then the machines have won.

Id be interested in a video exploring the zealandia continent, an "8th" continent

Awesome video, thanks! Keep up the great work

1:06 Australia is an island too.

Speaking as an Australian, we don't consider the continent as Oceania. The Continent is the main landmass. The rest is part of the continental plate.

How do I find the version of waltzing Matilda and the end of the song?

Why is he is talking about Australia being a part of a continent. Australia IS a continent. As a matter of fact Australia is the only land mass in the world that is classified as a country, continent and an island, feel free to look it up. This used to be common knowledge.

Quality video mate

my solution: make australia an island in asia, they already play in the asian cup, and there are lots of asians in australia edit: i'm just joking, don't write 2000 letter essay on how wrong i am

You got a like becuse of the koala pun at the end. Well done good sir !

Great vid! Thanks!

Politically speaking, which islands does Australia govern. THAT’s what I consider Australia. Sure it’s more arbitrary than geographical lines but there’s too many islands around there. If they don’t vote in Australian elections then they’re not part of Australia.

As an Australian I can say Australia is only mainland, Tasmania, torres straight, a few islands, and Ocean claims

thank you for the Tasmania love even Australians don't recognise it as a state

Wow, a new signore video!

Pretty good mate, preeeeeety good 👍 👍.

If we take this a step further… Australia was apart of Antarctica last, so that could mean that Australia COULD consist of two continents. …I could be wrong with the Antarctica thing, but I just thought it would be fun to think about.

This leaves the question. Is Australia technically a transcontinental country due to the fact that the Christmas Island’s (owned by Australia) is in Asia.

Drawing the line at Lombok would exclude Bali from the list making it invalid. There's enough of us there at any given moment to make it count from a bibliographical perspective.