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Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 8:11 AM
By the Seaside ...

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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Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 8:39 AM
Quoth Artillery MKV ...

That's what happens when you build an island that's a huge desert fringed by habitable areas!

Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 2:23 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

True -- much of the interior is not terribly hospitable (whether desert or tropical bits). Still, kind of remarkable.

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