It can be confusing, but "fair dinkum" is not the same as "fair enough". It can be a question - "fair dinkum?" = "really?". Or it can be a statement - "fair dinkum!" = "really!" - and a special bonus for you, "fair dinkum!" as a statement is the same as "bloody oath mate!"
Ryan, This was easily one of the best videos regarding Australia you have made to date; highlighting your knowledge of Australia, your humour and your humanity…and a prime example as to why we like and follow you. Cheers from Oz.
The electorate of Lingiari was named after Aboriginal Stockman and land rights leader, Vincent Lingiari. Lingiari led two hundred Gurindji people employed by Wave Hill station, with their families, in a ‘walk-off’, a movement advocating for better pay and conditions and land rights. Paul Kelly (he of How to Make Gravy fame) wrote the song From Little Things Big Things Grow (I tear up every time I listen to it) about this... (the tall stranger in the song is Gough Whitlam). The Wave Hill Walk-Off lasted nine years and is the longest strike in Australian history. The Walk-Off ended in March 1973 when the newly elected Whitlam Labor Government reached an agreement with the Wave Hill Station owner to lease 3,236 square kilometres of the Wave Hill Station to the Gurindji people for ‘residential and cultural purposes and to depasture stock’. On 16 August 1975, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam poured a handful of red soil into Vincent Lingiari’s hand to symbolise the legal transfer of land rights to the Gurindji people.
Ryan, you'd have to be one of America's foremost experts on Australia by now. MSNBC, CNN and Fox should be coming to you for comment whenever Australia comes up on the American news.
Another fun fact about the scale of Australia… The distance between Brisbane and Cairns (Far North QLD) is greater than between Brisbane and Melbourne.
Oh wow! I'm a 62 y.o. Aussie from WA and I have travelled the length and breadth of Australia many, many times but I have never picked up on that fact! Thank you!!
Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia) and Kalimantan (Indonesia) are all on same large island - Borneo.( I'm sure you've heard of that. Aussies fought the Japanese there in WW2). I went from Sabah to Sarawak and we flew over Brunei to get there. Gorgeous place.
A lot of the timber at Bunnings used to come from Borneo. They replaced most the forest with Palm Oil plantations so now Bunnings gets it timber from West Papua. The Bornean Orangutans are starving to death over there because the remaining forests are so degraded.
When asked by people to explain how big Australia is I use the following statement. It takes 8 hours to fly directly to Singapore from Melbourne, the first 5 hours of that flight is travelling over Australia, once you fly over Derby you are on your way. Since a lot of people come this way they can put into context. Yes it’s a big country.
Aye, to fly from Sydney to Perth is about the same time as LA to NYC. And to drive from Sydney to Melbourne is a day trip on its own (even taking the XPT takes most of the day between them).
FYI, what you were describing “if you have a border 1 mile long and zoom in to see the zig zags it’s actually 2 miles long” is known as the coastline paradox, in which the length of a coastline (or whatever) depends on the length of your ruler, and approaches infinity if you zoom in to measure around every little stone. Great video btw 😊
Mate, I used to live in Darwin & never heard of the 'Electorate of Lingiari' either. It must be a recent name change in acknowledgment of the indigenous peoples. ps. The Sultan of Brunei used to be the richest man in the world, until Elon came along.
@@baabaabaa-El I went up there to help rebuild Darwin after the cyclone. Construction & driving semis between Katherine & Darwin. Even did a 2 week river trip from Katherine to the Daly Crossing. The crocs got too big so we stopped there.
Have a go Wuzza, you know more than you think! 😄 Jervis Bay is attached to Canberra because it's a very important naval base! Christmas Island really belongs to the crabs! Canada wants Minnesota back! 🙋👍
@kizzashizza Yes it is the closest coastal beach, it has also been a critical restricted base for the navy! The govt used to control the port of Darwin, but most of that area appears to be in foreign hands now!
Vincent Lingari was an Australian Aboriginal civil rights activist of the Gurindji people. He led a fascinating life. A reaction to him and what he was able to achieve would be educational not only for your good self but to many Australians as well.
Sydney and Perth are located in the southern hemisphere, so they have similar latitudes. However, the exact latitude of each city is different. Sydney is located at a latitude of 33.87°S, while Perth is at a latitude of 31.95°S. This means that Sydney is slightly further south than Perth.
Just to clarify, Perth is actually just north of Newcastle. In general terms it's about the same latitude as Wauchope/Port Macquarie in NSW. It is also officially the longest city in the world at over 150 kilometres (93 miles in freedom units) long.
Remember that fact: "While Australian Aboriginal people have, of course, been living on the land . . . (unfortunately interrupted by a quick state quiz) . . . had their own boundaries for tens of thousands of years." Let that sink in a moment.
"Lingiari" is an important name in Aus. history. Not just an electorate, but it's the name of a person who is revered amongst the indigenous (and the general population as well, but he was an indigenous person)
45 minute TimeZone. Was reminded yesterday, that between South and Western Australia there’s a Central Western Time… also known as Eucla Time. Eg: When it’s 6pm in WA the time in Eucla is 6:45pm and SA is 8:30pm.
Speaking of the "Disputed territory"/border anomoly, between South Australia and Victoria, I'm originally from Serviceton which is one of the towns affected. Because of the border error, it should've been in South Australia but instead it's in Victoria.
I think Jervis Bay and Derby in WA used to be pronounced in the British way, like the word ‘clerk’, as Jarvis, Darby, and clark respectively. Apparently, Jervis bay was named after someone who pronounced it as it is spelt: Jervis. Recently the town has started using this phonetic pronunciation. Derby in WA is pronounced the way it is spelt by West Australians but as Darby, the British way, in the rest of Oz. The job of a ‘clerk’ has traditionally been pronounced as ‘clark’ in Australia, following the British way. It is derived from cleric, a religious scribe, and the associated word ‘clerical’ has the ‘e’ sound, not the ‘a’ sound. Jobs in the public sector are often categorised as a ‘clerk’, but pronounced as ‘clark ‘.
Jervis bay has been pronounced as Jervis with a er for as long as I know and that goes back to the 80's. (Was a local). Locally tho it was just known as JB.
@@rastan49 I was born at the beginning of the fifties and for most of my early life in Sydney it was pronounced jarvis. I moved to WA for fifteen years and when I came back I noticed everyone saying jervis instead.
@@rastan49 Those of us outside of the local JB area always heard it pronounced as Jarvis on news broadcasts. We just accepted it like Dulwich pronounced as Dul-ich, etc.
You not ever hearing about Lingiari is not surprising. I’m from South Australia and have never even heard it but it’s not a town or a city. It’s a government seat which most foreigners would have no idea about.
Cheers for the video Mr 'Random Seppo' lol He pronounced it Jervis not Jarvis, because there's a Jervis Bay in South Australia and that is actually pronounced, by the locals, Jervis. But if you're familiar with all the areas, you know...I only know because I grew up in SA and have spent time at the Navy Base at Jervis Bay in NSW.
The NSW Jervis Bay used to be pronounced "jarvis". When the locals were researching its history for some kind of -ennial celebration, they contacted the English family whose ancestor it was named for, and that family confirmed their pronunciation had always been "jurvis". After that "jurvis" became the official pronunciation.
@@Merrid67play that makes sense and thinking back to my ship posting with the Navy, when we went to HMAS Creswell, the Navy lads did in fact call it 'Jurvis Bay' where the ship would anchor.
Always thought Christmas Island was part of the WA electorate of Durack as every thing else there is WA. The school is run by the WA education department, the post code (zip code) is WA and the phone area code is WA. Yet they vote in an NT electorate must be some strange reason.
jervis bay is really unusual because it has a little village/town that is first nation people only, other people can only go on the land by invitation only. Also has an old crumbled lighthouse that has a history that is pretty haunting with 7 people dying during its operation. Also the waters of jervis bay are restricted as the Australian Navy uses them as a firing range as it has a small naval base there.
WA has regions like that too. It's legally shaky and hasn't actually been tried before, and since it is fairly easy to enter the regions without realising it, realistically you can't assert trespass.
The creek has been contaminated with PFAS by the navy and the indigenous people can no longer follow their traditional diet and eat anything from there.
There is a legal prinicple known as "the law does not concern itself with trifles" so don't try to take your neighbour to court over a tiny boundary fence error.
Ryan, Christmas Island is interesting because: * Electorate: Christmas Island is part of the Lingiari electorate in the Northern Territory for federal elections. * Administration: Christmas Island is administered by the Australian Government and falls under the jurisdiction of Western Australian laws. This creates a unique situation where the island votes for a Northern Territory representative in federal elections but follows Western Australian laws for many aspects of governance.
@@CoffeeAcorn Isn't that spelt like in Alan BORDER? Why would France be boarding here, are they actually French Foreign Legionaries doing outback training?
Ryan, if you want to know about Lingiari, listen to a song by singer songwriter Paul Kelly, called 'From little things, big things grow', it encapsulates the whole story, important in Indigenous land rights.
Love the pronunciation bit at the end. We have so many, but my favourite is when people from the Eastern States say my home town name of Albany. We say Al-bany, like Al Bundy. But they say All-bany, cause they have a town called Albury, which they say All-bury. They also pronounce Derby as Darby, but that's just cause they're weird. Which kind of makes that Jervis/Jarvis make sense. Or not.
Actually I knew those facts, but I had a lot of fun watching @ryanreaction mentally processing that information 😊 And to make you feel a little vindicated Ryan, I have explained Canberra to American friend's similarly to your comparison with Washington. Melbourne and Sydney where both arguing that they should be the nation's capital, so in the end, a midpoint was chosen and a new territory was created there as the nation's capital (that's why Canberra is so well planned). In case you were not aware, the name was derived from a word of the original custodians mean 'meeting place' because it was to be the meeting place of our leaders.
Adelaide is farther North than Canberra? I never knew. I lived in Canberra for 50years until recently. Hmm. I once drove to Adelaide with my gf's family. It took us 14 hours right through the night and well into the next day in rented Tarago ppl movers in 1999, and the whole way I imagined we were travelling in a South Westerly direction. I guess the key word is "imagined." As we were traveling slightly North of West. That's burst my knowledge bubble.
But an actual fun fact. Australia is made up of 6 states, 3 internal territories and 7 external territories. There are as the states: Western Australia South Australia Queensland New South Wales Victoria Tasmania Internal territories: Australian Capital Territory Northern Territory Jervis Bay External Territories: Norfolk Island Christmas Island Heard and MacDonald Islands Ashmore and Cartier Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands Coral Sea Islands Australian Antarctic Territory (about 4.5x larger than Alaska)
Ryan ❤ this video . Learnt a few new things. BTW the reference to US and Canada is great, that information gave perspective to the latter details on Australian cities. Canadian border is more southern than northern part of California as Perth is more northern than Sydney
Hi Ryan, I live in Canberra and when they were deciding a location for the capital, it had to be roughly half way between Sydney and Melbourne and far enough away from the ocean to put it out of range of an enemy ship's missile at time. Now obsolete.
@garrywilding6077 Sorry, I meant it as now the distance of a missile has made the position Canberra obsolete. Now that missiles can come from much, much further.
To quickly convert metres to "freedom units", a yard is 36 inches, a metre is 40 inches, so add approx 10% to the metre distance and you get that distance in yards (multiply by 3 to get feet).
Brunei - one of the world’s richest countries and it was at one point the world’s richest country on a per capita basis. We learnt about it in primary school.
Not only do some of us pronounce Jervis Bay differently, but there are other things like some foods are called different things, from one state to another. Like Devon and Polony, (pretend sandwich meat.) the list goes on😅
I’m from Dublin in Ireland. My cousins are from Florida. They came over to visit me a few summers ago and one of the questions they asked me was, Why does it stay bright till almost midnight in Ireland in the summer? They had no idea that Ireland is further north then all of the contiguous United States, and about 2000 miles further north then Florida…. 😊
It's the Federal Electorate of Lingiari named after Vincent Lingiari - Indigenous elder and rights warrior - think of the famous photo of Gough Whitlam pouring sand into Vincent Lingiari's hand. It's an interesting story. The Paul Kelly song 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' is about Vincent Lingiari
Having lived near Jervis Bay, I can confirm it is pronounced the way the guy in the vid said, that is the way it is spelt . . . and trust me, if you pronounce it "Jarvis" the locals get most irate.
While in Australia it is considered to be one hundred and twenty seven metres.😮😂 Seppos don’t seem to realise that “meters” are tools/gauges that are used to measure things, not a unit of measurement themselves.
I’m glad someone commented on the source video about the pronunciation of Jervis Bay, otherwise I would have commented here. Oh wait, I have just commented. Oh well!
The only thing in here i didn't know was the little islet that Tasmania and Victoria share a land border on. Crazy fact, from Victoria you can travel East West, North and south to enter South Australia, due to that border. A bit like how you can travel North from Windsor Ontario to Detroit Michigan.
a couple more geography fun facts: -the northernmost tip of Victoria is the same latitude as Botany Bay in Sydney -Rottnest Island in WA is almost precisely opposite side of the world as the island of Bermuda, in the Atlantic Ocean (maybe 50km or so gap...) outside Australia... apparently the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil.... 🫨
I knew about Perth & Sydney, but not about Adelaide & Canberra. Worth watching, as always. Thanks, Ry. Thanks for my “happy arvo” T-shirt, too. First wear today but nobody stopped me & said, “Do you watch Ryan, too?” Pity.
The electoral areas have weird names in Australia and a lot of Aussies will not know the electoral areas in other states. Added to that, there are federal and state electoral areas and they are different and have different names. For example I live in the Mayo electoral area and the Kavel electoral area.
As an Australian viewer I like it when you list off cool or random facts about America dont stop we don’t always want to hear about ourselves 😂
The California thing always spins me out
It can be confusing, but "fair dinkum" is not the same as "fair enough". It can be a question - "fair dinkum?" = "really?". Or it can be a statement - "fair dinkum!" = "really!" - and a special bonus for you, "fair dinkum!" as a statement is the same as "bloody oath mate!"
The correct response is to those errors are, she’ll be right, mate. Not fair dinkum
Ryan,
This was easily one of the best videos regarding Australia you have made to date; highlighting your knowledge of Australia, your humour and your humanity…and a prime example as to why we like and follow you.
Cheers from Oz.
The most interesting thing I've heard this year. About Canada lower than North California. Thank you.
Yes, that really did surprise me. Mind you I didn't realize Norfolk Island voted with ACT. 😊
The electorate of Lingiari was named after Aboriginal Stockman and land rights leader, Vincent Lingiari. Lingiari led two hundred Gurindji people employed by Wave Hill station, with their families, in a ‘walk-off’, a movement advocating for better pay and conditions and land rights.
Paul Kelly (he of How to Make Gravy fame) wrote the song From Little Things Big Things Grow (I tear up every time I listen to it) about this... (the tall stranger in the song is Gough Whitlam).
The Wave Hill Walk-Off lasted nine years and is the longest strike in Australian history. The Walk-Off ended in March 1973 when the newly elected Whitlam Labor Government reached an agreement with the Wave Hill Station owner to lease 3,236 square kilometres of the Wave Hill Station to the Gurindji people for ‘residential and cultural purposes and to depasture stock’.
On 16 August 1975, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam poured a handful of red soil into Vincent Lingiari’s hand to symbolise the legal transfer of land rights to the Gurindji people.
Wow, that is amazing info 🙏
Thanks so Much for that 👌👌👌
Came here looking for this comment - LinGIari 🤦♂️
I've been in Oz 51 years and Never heard of half of that 😂😂 thanks for once again teaching me about my own country 😂 You're a Star !! ✨
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I actually really appreciated learning that about California and Canada. Cheers mate.
I agree, that was interesting.
Yup, same here mate, I never would have thought that parts of California were even parallel to Canada, never mind more north.
I was totally amazed by that as well !! Thanks Ryan
Ryan, you'd have to be one of America's foremost experts on Australia by now. MSNBC, CNN and Fox should be coming to you for comment whenever Australia comes up on the American news.
glaze is crazy yet true
Kenoath!
He’s my favourite
Yet he still refuses to use G'day as a greeting
Rondald Dump is banning any news outlet from talking about any counrty other than America, only trub is Mr Dump has NO idea it's really continent !
Another fun fact about the scale of Australia…
The distance between Brisbane and Cairns (Far North QLD) is greater than between Brisbane and Melbourne.
Oh wow! I'm a 62 y.o. Aussie from WA and I have travelled the length and breadth of Australia many, many times but I have never picked up on that fact! Thank you!!
Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia) and Kalimantan (Indonesia) are all on same large island - Borneo.( I'm sure you've heard of that. Aussies fought the Japanese there in WW2). I went from Sabah to Sarawak and we flew over Brunei to get there. Gorgeous place.
A lot of the timber at Bunnings used to come from Borneo. They replaced most the forest with Palm Oil plantations so now Bunnings gets it timber from West Papua. The Bornean Orangutans are starving to death over there because the remaining forests are so degraded.
My old man landed at Balikpapan with the 7th Div.
@@LukeJames369😢 so sad for the orang-utans
When asked by people to explain how big Australia is I use the following statement. It takes 8 hours to fly directly to Singapore from Melbourne, the first 5 hours of that flight is travelling over Australia, once you fly over Derby you are on your way. Since a lot of people come this way they can put into context. Yes it’s a big country.
Aye, to fly from Sydney to Perth is about the same time as LA to NYC. And to drive from Sydney to Melbourne is a day trip on its own (even taking the XPT takes most of the day between them).
Paul Kelly did a song called From Little things Big things grow, this is about Vincent Lingiari
FYI, what you were describing “if you have a border 1 mile long and zoom in to see the zig zags it’s actually 2 miles long” is known as the coastline paradox, in which the length of a coastline (or whatever) depends on the length of your ruler, and approaches infinity if you zoom in to measure around every little stone. Great video btw 😊
Mate, I used to live in Darwin & never heard of the 'Electorate of Lingiari' either.
It must be a recent name change in acknowledgment of the indigenous peoples.
ps. The Sultan of Brunei used to be the richest man in the world, until Elon came along.
2001 l rekn?
I lived in Darwin and umm, Katherine in the 80s and 90s.
@@baabaabaa-El I went up there to help rebuild Darwin after the cyclone. Construction & driving semis between Katherine & Darwin. Even did a 2 week river trip from Katherine to the Daly Crossing. The crocs got too big so we stopped there.
That was interesting about Canada and California, I didn't know that.
Have a go Wuzza, you know more than you think! 😄 Jervis Bay is attached to Canberra because it's a very important naval base! Christmas Island really belongs to the crabs! Canada wants Minnesota back! 🙋👍
See, you been given a nickname in Australia now Wuzza
@@pacontheo If he had a more prominent nose, he would probably be Ryno/Rhino.
@@daveg2104 Yes, there's really 'no point' in calling him that! 😉
I'm pretty sure Jervis Bay is technically part of Canberra because of some thing somewhere that says a capital territory has to be attached to water
@kizzashizza Yes it is the closest coastal beach, it has also been a critical restricted base for the navy! The govt used to control the port of Darwin, but most of that area appears to be in foreign hands now!
Vincent Lingari was an Australian Aboriginal civil rights activist of the Gurindji people. He led a fascinating life. A reaction to him and what he was able to achieve would be educational not only for your good self but to many Australians as well.
And that’s what Ry does best.
For background on Vincent Lingiari, check out the Paul Kelly song From Little Things Big Things Grow.
Sydney and Perth are located in the southern hemisphere, so they have similar latitudes. However, the exact latitude of each city is different. Sydney is located at a latitude of 33.87°S, while Perth is at a latitude of 31.95°S. This means that Sydney is slightly further south than Perth.
And Perth is further south than Cape Town.
This fact was surprising to me. I had not known this.
Yes by about 200km.
Perth is also West of Sydney 😜
Just to clarify, Perth is actually just north of Newcastle. In general terms it's about the same latitude as Wauchope/Port Macquarie in NSW. It is also officially the longest city in the world at over 150 kilometres (93 miles in freedom units) long.
The "Happy Arvo" is everything 😂, best start to any aussie video 🔥
Remember that fact:
"While Australian Aboriginal people
have, of course, been living on the land . . .
(unfortunately interrupted by a quick state quiz)
. . . had their own boundaries
for tens of thousands of years."
Let that sink in a moment.
ITS DINKUM NOT DINKIN
"Lingiari" is an important name in Aus. history. Not just an electorate, but it's the name of a person who is revered amongst the indigenous (and the general population as well, but he was an indigenous person)
45 minute TimeZone. Was reminded yesterday, that between South and Western Australia there’s a Central Western Time… also known as Eucla Time. Eg: When it’s 6pm in WA the time in Eucla is 6:45pm and SA is 8:30pm.
Hobart is closer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin.
Speaking of the "Disputed territory"/border anomoly, between South Australia and Victoria, I'm originally from Serviceton which is one of the towns affected. Because of the border error, it should've been in South Australia but instead it's in Victoria.
To be fair, it was about Canada too, and it was interesting to find out how far south Canada extended compared to the western states of the US
I think Jervis Bay and Derby in WA used to be pronounced in the British way, like the word ‘clerk’, as Jarvis, Darby, and clark respectively.
Apparently, Jervis bay was named after someone who pronounced it as it is spelt: Jervis. Recently the town has started using this phonetic pronunciation.
Derby in WA is pronounced the way it is spelt by West Australians but as Darby, the British way, in the rest of Oz.
The job of a ‘clerk’ has traditionally been pronounced as ‘clark’ in Australia, following the British way. It is derived from cleric, a religious scribe, and the associated word ‘clerical’ has the ‘e’ sound, not the ‘a’ sound.
Jobs in the public sector are often categorised as a ‘clerk’, but pronounced as ‘clark ‘.
I knew the pronunciation of Jervis had changed over the last few decades but I didn’t know why. Thank you.
Jervis bay has been pronounced as Jervis with a er for as long as I know and that goes back to the 80's. (Was a local).
Locally tho it was just known as JB.
@@rastan49 I was born at the beginning of the fifties and for most of my early life in Sydney it was pronounced jarvis. I moved to WA for fifteen years and when I came back I noticed everyone saying jervis instead.
@@miniveedub things I learn, explains why I knew it as Jervis all this time as the name had already had it's vowel shift.
@@rastan49
Those of us outside of the local JB area always heard it pronounced as Jarvis on news broadcasts.
We just accepted it like Dulwich pronounced as Dul-ich, etc.
"She'll be right" could easily be our National Anthem.
Maybe pledge?
How does that “she’ll be right” tune go again? Maybe not our national anthem but certainly our motto.
Certainly was our defence policy for five decades.
You not ever hearing about Lingiari is not surprising. I’m from South Australia and have never even heard it but it’s not a town or a city. It’s a government seat which most foreigners would have no idea about.
Hello from West Australia
Tad warm today
Funny, I thought your State was called *Western* Australia.
@@DeepThought9999 it definitely is. I’m not sure when or why people started shortening it to West
@@trevorcook4439 Cause we Australian!
Cheers for the video Mr 'Random Seppo' lol He pronounced it Jervis not Jarvis, because there's a Jervis Bay in South Australia and that is actually pronounced, by the locals, Jervis. But if you're familiar with all the areas, you know...I only know because I grew up in SA and have spent time at the Navy Base at Jervis Bay in NSW.
The NSW Jervis Bay used to be pronounced "jarvis". When the locals were researching its history for some kind of -ennial celebration, they contacted the English family whose ancestor it was named for, and that family confirmed their pronunciation had always been "jurvis". After that "jurvis" became the official pronunciation.
@@Merrid67play that makes sense and thinking back to my ship posting with the Navy, when we went to HMAS Creswell, the Navy lads did in fact call it 'Jurvis Bay' where the ship would anchor.
Ryan i think you prove time & time again you can make ANYTHING fun & interesting!🤭.
Fun fact Western Australia is close enough to 1/3 Australia but only has 2.9 million people living in it. Almost 1/2 the population of Sydney.
Always thought Christmas Island was part of the WA electorate of Durack as every thing else there is WA. The school is run by the WA education department, the post code (zip code) is WA and the phone area code is WA. Yet they vote in an NT electorate must be some strange reason.
Same
jervis bay is really unusual because it has a little village/town that is first nation people only, other people can only go on the land by invitation only. Also has an old crumbled lighthouse that has a history that is pretty haunting with 7 people dying during its operation. Also the waters of jervis bay are restricted as the Australian Navy uses them as a firing range as it has a small naval base there.
WA has regions like that too. It's legally shaky and hasn't actually been tried before, and since it is fairly easy to enter the regions without realising it, realistically you can't assert trespass.
There was also a proposal to establish a nuclear reactor there at one point in time, I believe.
But it’s a beautiful place.
@@greghansell5115they dug a hole and made the best road in Australia (that nobody used) and it is still sitting there.
The creek has been contaminated with PFAS by the navy and the indigenous people can no longer follow their traditional diet and eat anything from there.
the electorate maps are fun, you should check a video on them
In Australia it's "rough enough is good enough"
There is a legal prinicple known as "the law does not concern itself with trifles" so don't try to take your neighbour to court over a tiny boundary fence error.
In our house it's "near enough is good enough"
Good enough for government work.
@@alekd6358 correct
Hi Ryan, love your video's about the wonderful country that I live in. here's a fun fact for you , the UK would fit 4 times into NSW.
I absolutely hate this guy but the end got me dead 😂
Ryan, Christmas Island is interesting because:
* Electorate: Christmas Island is part of the Lingiari electorate in the Northern Territory for federal elections.
* Administration: Christmas Island is administered by the Australian Government and falls under the jurisdiction of Western Australian laws.
This creates a unique situation where the island votes for a Northern Territory representative in federal elections but follows Western Australian laws for many aspects of governance.
"Fair dinkum" means that something is true, genuine, real etc - it does not mean "fair enough."
Cities quiz next? Landmarks?
fun fact, Australia's largest boarder is with France (Antarctic claims boarder)
I'm in Brissie. My closest neighbour is France, at least until New Caledonia declares independence
Boarder? She or he?
*border ;)...flashback to Pandemic days lol
@@CoffeeAcorn Isn't that spelt like in Alan BORDER? Why would France be boarding here, are they actually French Foreign Legionaries doing outback training?
Ryan, if you want to know about Lingiari, listen to a song by singer songwriter Paul Kelly, called 'From little things, big things grow', it encapsulates the whole story, important in Indigenous land rights.
Love the pronunciation bit at the end. We have so many, but my favourite is when people from the Eastern States say my home town name of Albany. We say Al-bany, like Al Bundy. But they say All-bany, cause they have a town called Albury, which they say All-bury. They also pronounce Derby as Darby, but that's just cause they're weird. Which kind of makes that Jervis/Jarvis make sense. Or not.
I love it when they come over for TELETHON with their mispronunciations Cockburn is always a classic where I grew up.
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Actually I knew those facts, but I had a lot of fun watching @ryanreaction mentally processing that information 😊
And to make you feel a little vindicated Ryan, I have explained Canberra to American friend's similarly to your comparison with Washington. Melbourne and Sydney where both arguing that they should be the nation's capital, so in the end, a midpoint was chosen and a new territory was created there as the nation's capital (that's why Canberra is so well planned).
In case you were not aware, the name was derived from a word of the original custodians mean 'meeting place' because it was to be the meeting place of our leaders.
There is an island north of australia called good enough island 😂😊
Sorta near Kickatinalong and Wheelabarraback😂
That's our country, we don't sweat the small stuff 😊
Lingiari is the traditional land of Indigenous Australian, Vincent Lingiari, activist and stockman.
It's funny how laidback we are about most things but get the name of somewhere wrong and look out! You're going to be corrected😂
Adelaide is farther North than Canberra? I never knew. I lived in Canberra for 50years until recently. Hmm. I once drove to Adelaide with my gf's family. It took us 14 hours right through the night and well into the next day in rented Tarago ppl movers in 1999, and the whole way I imagined we were travelling in a South Westerly direction. I guess the key word is "imagined." As we were traveling slightly North of West. That's burst my knowledge bubble.
She'll be right
But an actual fun fact.
Australia is made up of 6 states, 3 internal territories and 7 external territories.
There are as the states:
Western Australia
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria
Tasmania
Internal territories:
Australian Capital Territory
Northern Territory
Jervis Bay
External Territories:
Norfolk Island
Christmas Island
Heard and MacDonald Islands
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Coral Sea Islands
Australian Antarctic Territory (about 4.5x larger than Alaska)
Nothing is wrong with Good Enough, because noting is perfect.
I’ve been living in Australia for 30 years and I haven’t heard of Lingiari before
Ryan ❤ this video . Learnt a few new things. BTW the reference to US and Canada is great, that information gave perspective to the latter details on Australian cities. Canadian border is more southern than northern part of California as Perth is more northern than Sydney
Enjoy your videos Ryan 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Hi Ryan, I live in Canberra and when they were deciding a location for the capital, it had to be roughly half way between Sydney and Melbourne and far enough away from the ocean to put it out of range of an enemy ship's missile at time. Now obsolete.
Read that wrong. Read as " Canberra now obsolete"
@garrywilding6077 Sorry, I meant it as now the distance of a missile has made the position Canberra obsolete. Now that missiles can come from much, much further.
416.667 freedom units =127m
Perth being North doesnt surprise me but Adelaide being north is crazy
To quickly convert metres to "freedom units", a yard is 36 inches, a metre is 40 inches, so add approx 10% to the metre distance and you get that distance in yards (multiply by 3 to get feet).
That was really interesting about Canada and California. Hi from Melbourne.
If you have never heard of Lingiari then don't beat yourself up about it. I've lived here for 56 years and I haven't heard of it either.
Toronto being further south than the NoCal is wild. That's definitely interesting to me as an Australian
Brunei - one of the world’s richest countries and it was at one point the world’s richest country on a per capita basis. We learnt about it in primary school.
As an Australian from Darwin, everyone down south are just southerners we don’t call them by their names.
Not only do some of us pronounce Jervis Bay differently, but there are other things like some foods are called different things, from one state to another. Like Devon and Polony, (pretend sandwich meat.) the list goes on😅
You should say Australia right
I’m from Dublin in Ireland. My cousins are from Florida. They came over to visit me a few summers ago and one of the questions they asked me was, Why does it stay bright till almost midnight in Ireland in the summer? They had no idea that Ireland is further north then all of the contiguous United States, and about 2000 miles further north then Florida…. 😊
As Effie would say, 'Very entertainment!'
Near enough is good enough. Theme of Australia.
Hey Ryan can you do more live streams please
I second this
Happy arvo Ryan 👋😁
I'm an Aussie, and I haven't heard of Ling... what was it?
It's the Federal Electorate of Lingiari named after Vincent Lingiari - Indigenous elder and rights warrior - think of the famous photo of Gough Whitlam pouring sand into Vincent Lingiari's hand. It's an interesting story. The Paul Kelly song 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' is about Vincent Lingiari
@@susanlogan1007 yes..that is how I knew it. First heard his name in the Paul Kelly song "From Little Things Big Things Grow".
Thank you @susanlogan1007, I know the song, but not the story, now I'm going to find out more! I appreciate your response. 😊Xx
@ You're welcome
Having lived near Jervis Bay, I can confirm it is pronounced the way the guy in the vid said, that is the way it is spelt . . . and trust me, if you pronounce it "Jarvis" the locals get most irate.
127 metres in freedom units is one hundred and twenty-seven meters
While in Australia it is considered to be one hundred and twenty seven metres.😮😂 Seppos don’t seem to realise that “meters” are tools/gauges that are used to measure things, not a unit of measurement themselves.
I’m glad someone commented on the source video about the pronunciation of Jervis Bay, otherwise I would have commented here. Oh wait, I have just commented. Oh well!
I’m Australian and over 70 and I haven’t heard of Lingiari and Brunei is in the Middle East.
Ryan, the quote is " near enough, is good enough".
And there are parts of the USA that can only be reached (by land) by driving through Canada.
And I don't mean Alaska.
The only thing in here i didn't know was the little islet that Tasmania and Victoria share a land border on. Crazy fact, from Victoria you can travel East West, North and south to enter South Australia, due to that border. A bit like how you can travel North from Windsor Ontario to Detroit Michigan.
Hearing you say freedom units tickles my funny bone% 🇦🇺
Another great vid. Could you a video on the aus open( I know you like tennis).
I always knew Perth was higher up the ladder than that Sydney joint.
Best wishes from Perth 😊.
Gotta visit that rock in Bass straight!
I'd say the border issue is more 'no worries' and 'she'll be right' than 'good enough.'
Love you, Ryan, and I would NEVER call you a Seppo! xxx
a couple more geography fun facts:
-the northernmost tip of Victoria is the same latitude as Botany Bay in Sydney
-Rottnest Island in WA is almost precisely opposite side of the world as the island of Bermuda, in the Atlantic Ocean (maybe 50km or so gap...)
outside Australia... apparently the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil.... 🫨
Chicago is north of NYC was surprising.
A straight line from Sydney to Perth will go across the Great Australian Bight because we are on a globe, not a disc.
Thank you, byeeeeeee 👏😃
Near enough is good enough is the quote your looking for Ryan
I knew about Perth & Sydney, but not about Adelaide & Canberra.
Worth watching, as always. Thanks, Ry.
Thanks for my “happy arvo” T-shirt, too. First wear today but nobody stopped me & said, “Do you watch Ryan, too?” Pity.
Dude some of this stuff I didn’t even know and I’m an Aussie. 😂
rough enough is good enough.
Lol I loved fair dinken
Coming from Canada originally I did not know that !!
The electoral areas have weird names in Australia and a lot of Aussies will not know the electoral areas in other states. Added to that, there are federal and state electoral areas and they are different and have different names. For example I live in the Mayo electoral area and the Kavel electoral area.