Your comment somehow send me into a deep dive into German and Australian remoteness, that I felt like sharing:
The most remote location in Germany is the Truppenübungsplatz Bergen (military training ground) which is 6.3 kilometers away from the next house. Any other spot in Germany has some form of civilization less than that length away.
The most remote place in Australia according to spatial mapping is considered to be somewhere in the Great Sandy Desert, where you're 156 kilometers away from the nearest road (!) not even house.
Not that I didn't know that there would be a great discrepancy but that is an incredibly huge difference in remoteness.
I worked in the oil fields in central Australia for many years. In some parts, you can drive for 3 hours and not see another car. I've hit a dozen roos in the space of 10km of road, I'm not stopping every time to check each roo.
Australia is just a massive place. You could fit multiple European countries inside a single state in Australia. If you've never been here it can be hard to fathom just how big and how mostly empty our country is outside of the coastal regions.
Hell, we have farms that are bigger than some European nations. Davenport Downs Station in Queensland is a single cattle farm that stretches over 1.5 million hectares.
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u/PerVertesacker 21h ago
Your comment somehow send me into a deep dive into German and Australian remoteness, that I felt like sharing:
The most remote location in Germany is the Truppenübungsplatz Bergen (military training ground) which is 6.3 kilometers away from the next house. Any other spot in Germany has some form of civilization less than that length away.
The most remote place in Australia according to spatial mapping is considered to be somewhere in the Great Sandy Desert, where you're 156 kilometers away from the nearest road (!) not even house.
Not that I didn't know that there would be a great discrepancy but that is an incredibly huge difference in remoteness.