Your demographic trivia for today:
Eighty percent of Australians live within 80 miles of the sea; 50 percent of the country’s houses sit less than 8 miles from a beach.
Australia's a huge country/continent. It's amazing how much of that remains clustered on the outskirts.
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That's what happens when you build an island that's a huge desert fringed by habitable areas!
True -- much of the interior is not terribly hospitable (whether desert or tropical bits). Still, kind of remarkable.
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