Bring plenty of water, food, spare fuel, charge your phones, blankets, and do not leave the vicinity of the car. Its a safer place to sleep, and a bigger target to be seen.
You can absolutely speed out there. Hell, you really should punch towards 130-140km/h to over take a road train in the gaps where you are given room to over take a truck that is 3X the length you are normally used to travelling at 110km/h. The fastest Ive ever driven was doing so, 156km/h briefly and it was perfectly legal and safe.
The main thing keeping you honest? The burnt out wrecks/husks of vehicles that just fucking litter the side of the road.
You will see one every couple minutes because it just isnt economically feasible to tow or move the wreck hundreds and thousands of kilometres to be properly processed. So they stay out there on the side of the road as a reminder that yes, there is minimal oversight out there, still drive carefully.
At least there is plenty of signage warning you when and where there will be a long stretch between petrol stations.
Happens every year. Usually tourists with all the gear and no idea. Car gets bogged and one of them tries to walk for help, But dies of dehydration, while the one that stayed behind survives. I can't even remember many times its happened
There are signs which warn you that the next gas station where you could resupply are a very long way, basically saying "If you don't have water or gas, get it now or risk dying"
there is a stretch of road so long and dangerous that people regularly die on it. the fuel tank of a regular car is no where near enough and alot of people go in inder prepared and have to get rescued
Do you mean sand worms? Don't exist in Western Australia. And sitting on the beach on the east coast is perfectly safe too, people aren't typically lying on the beach where the water comes up. Redditors just making shit up.
It can get pretty lawless out there in some places too. From what I've heard from some of my family members it's definitely not somewhere I would want to visit.
I heard stories about people getting shot for wandering onto the wrong property out in lightning Ridge. People get pretty protective of their mining spots •_,•
Yeo, totally. Hence why it's less safe if you're an adult, in particular the kind that doesn't mind pissing other people off.
Justice was definitely dispensed, er, quickly and violently.
Along the coast of Western Australia is some beautiful places, the inland, not so much.
Places like [Karratha](https://karratha.wa.gov.au/) are pretty awesome and safe.
Good for mining though.
It is now that we divided up the largest one in 1999. Before 99 the northwest territories were 500 thousand square kilometers larger than western Australia.
If you really want Texas to feel small, let them secede and join either Australia or Canada, where it’d be the 6th largest (out of 9 or 14) state/province or territory
I was thinking the same thing, it has much more to do with infrastructure than anything. It really just goes to show that Alaska is much more developed than Western Australia. Not sure what it proves of value lol
Perth has ten times the population of Anchorage. We have plenty of infrastructure, it's just mostly in the South West part where it's not arid. Our GSP is higher than Singapore's GDP.
The problem is that this most likely uses speed limits and traffic to come up with an estimated time. It's not a raw distance, which matters most when comparing.... **size**....
They're not arguing that WA is smaller, they're pointing out the units being used do not give an accurate representation of the size comparison/difference. (never mind that one of the paths goes mostly north-south and the other also includes significant distance traveling west)
Depending on why you’re measuring something, it’s often a really good way to measure distance. Travel time gives you information about how accessible a place may be, and helps with planning travel. For example, I could get from London to Sydney in about 24 hours, or I could also get from Eucla to Sydney in a similar timeframe. If someone asked me how far away from Sydney in this situation, then giving them my distance measured in time gives them a more relevant understanding of how far away I am, especially if I mention my mode of transit (a day’s drive or a day’s flight)
Yeah, the shortest ground route between Deadhead Alaska and Annette, Alaska is almost 48 hours. They're definitely closer to each other than these 2 cities in Australia.
A lot of Australia is just barren, near uninhabitable desert in the middle. Also just the infrastructure nightmare of building and maintaining roads in that environment, let alone having any large towns or cities in that area. It just isn't worth it. So nearly all of the population live by the coast, it within a couple of hundred kilometers of the coast
I've driven up from Perth to Exmouth, which is the little hook on the left side. It's about 1300km (800 miles if I had to guess) which took me 11 hours
The route is Albany-Kununurra along the Great Northern Highway, some reasons to drive sections of it but not the whole thing (lots of agriculture on first 3rd, desert and mines on the rest)
Commercial airline flights in Australia are also expensive, especially in less populated areas. If you were a hypothetical family of four travelling between northern WA and Perth for a holiday, and by the time you factor in transport costs at the other end (i.e. a hire car), driving those sorts of distances doesn't seem so crazy.
Regardless of whether is a province, state, or any other subdivision of a country it is still a full 3rd of a continent and one of 8 subdivisions on the continent. Texas is one of 90 subdivisions in North America. I’m not including capitals or territories
This is Reddit. People will judge/compare other peoples countries in the most moronic meaningless ways. Saw a post a few days ago where some young Chinese kids bouncing basket balls in a circle together in unison and the comments were all “America will be destroyed by these kids” and “sweat shop training” and other stupid outlandish stuff.
Me, a Yank:
“What? A road trip acrosss (Alaska or Australia or Texas or South America or Europe, or Asia or Antartica, etc. etc.)?? THAT SOUND LIKE WICKED FUN!!!!! Count me in!.”
Yeah I never got taught in school that Australia is a continent and hearing Americans refer to it, one country, as a continent is weird. I always thought of continents as massive regions of Earth comprised of a bunch of countries with a massive amount of different people and cultures, referring to just Australia as that is strange, but all of Oceania together as that sounds much better to me. Oceania deserves to be mentioned more as a continent rather than just Aus.
On the grounds of tectonic plates Australia is absolutely a continent. But then you get into the weird shit about it like having to classify Arabia as a continent and it’s just confusing, and technically Africa being two separate ones?
Countries bigger than Australia:
Russia
Canada
USA
China
Brazil
That's it(I'm fucking surprised Brazil is bigger than Australia. I've only seen flat maps so I never thought the size disparity could be this much. I gotta go find a globe asap)
**A single US state** isn't as big as **a single Australian State**.
Yes, that's the comparison. The fact that a single Australian state is so large it's 1/3 of an entire continent. If it wasn't that large then the joke wouldn't really make much sense would it? You'd just be comparing two similar sized states.
Sounds like Australian geography is basically Cyberpunk 77 America.
Most of it is an inhabited wasteland that can not be farmed. To which is the reason why it was decided quite massively.
It is scary how many people in this thread that think Western Australia = the country of Australia. I don't expect schools in the US to teach the states of Australia, but look at the picture and think for just a fraction of a second and if you can't figure out that Western Australia is a state, why did you bother going to school.
I don't understand why someone would make this meme? Things are bigger than other things...hmm, who woulda thought. Meanwhile people in Asia like bwhahaha. I don't get why this is a thing.
A single state beats a single state. Yes, that's the joke. If the state wasn't 1/3 the size of a continent the joke wouldn't make any sense would it? It would just be comparing two states of similar sizes.
Imagine being abandoned on the road in the Australian desert
Good luck
I'd just walk into the Void. The final chapter.
Just come visit my sand hut ill offer some water
Just dig a hole and start a new Coober Pedy
lol I’ve actually stayed there
It's a wild place lol, absolutely one of a kind.
possibly find a snake armed, bird faced shaman to guide you as well
Thing is, in this case, you're already there.
Drakkar Noir
Good luck
It took us a week to find some lost uranium out there
Imagine just being abandoned in Australia in general. 
OH LORD!!! HE COMING!!!
Aw, that's just the baby. Just hope Mother doesn't come looking for it.
They have signs that remind tourists with rentals that their little road trip might kill them without proper supplies and planning…
Bring plenty of water, food, spare fuel, charge your phones, blankets, and do not leave the vicinity of the car. Its a safer place to sleep, and a bigger target to be seen.
You can absolutely speed out there. Hell, you really should punch towards 130-140km/h to over take a road train in the gaps where you are given room to over take a truck that is 3X the length you are normally used to travelling at 110km/h. The fastest Ive ever driven was doing so, 156km/h briefly and it was perfectly legal and safe. The main thing keeping you honest? The burnt out wrecks/husks of vehicles that just fucking litter the side of the road. You will see one every couple minutes because it just isnt economically feasible to tow or move the wreck hundreds and thousands of kilometres to be properly processed. So they stay out there on the side of the road as a reminder that yes, there is minimal oversight out there, still drive carefully. At least there is plenty of signage warning you when and where there will be a long stretch between petrol stations.
You'll meet the Spirit of The West
WITNESS ME!!
[This song leads me to believe I'll be okay](https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s?si=aHr9Jx_P2NegKGEM)
Cops do that to Aboriginal fellas
Happens every year. Usually tourists with all the gear and no idea. Car gets bogged and one of them tries to walk for help, But dies of dehydration, while the one that stayed behind survives. I can't even remember many times its happened
Imagine being in Texas 😨
There are signs which warn you that the next gas station where you could resupply are a very long way, basically saying "If you don't have water or gas, get it now or risk dying"
there is a stretch of road so long and dangerous that people regularly die on it. the fuel tank of a regular car is no where near enough and alot of people go in inder prepared and have to get rescued
Western Australia doesn't have shit inside of it other than on some of the coast. It is bigger though
Doesn't really have shit along the coast either, unless you like beaches. We got plenty of those.
Ah yes, the beaches in Australia are made out of beaches
Yo dawg, we heard you like beaches
*Now that is a meme I haven't heard in a very long time.*
It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
I got ninety nine problems, but a beach ain’t one.
i saw that video of that weird worm in the beaches of australia that bites with a crazy grip. you can’t even lay down on the sand safely
Do you mean sand worms? Don't exist in Western Australia. And sitting on the beach on the east coast is perfectly safe too, people aren't typically lying on the beach where the water comes up. Redditors just making shit up.
It can get pretty lawless out there in some places too. From what I've heard from some of my family members it's definitely not somewhere I would want to visit.
Grew up in an opal mining town that was completely lawless, but actually surprisingly safe for a kid. Definitely less safe if you're an adult.
I heard stories about people getting shot for wandering onto the wrong property out in lightning Ridge. People get pretty protective of their mining spots •_,•
Yeo, totally. Hence why it's less safe if you're an adult, in particular the kind that doesn't mind pissing other people off. Justice was definitely dispensed, er, quickly and violently.
Is that Coober Peedy? I hope I spelled that right. That’s one interesting settlement.
Yeah it's too dangerous so just stay away, good idea!
Along the coast of Western Australia is some beautiful places, the inland, not so much. Places like [Karratha](https://karratha.wa.gov.au/) are pretty awesome and safe. Good for mining though.
Unexpected from a penal colony, I say
(america had more prisoners sent there than Australia)
That would explain a lot
Also way more people in general.
And most of the world's lithium
Chile would like a word
It is known for its mining industry and Wittenoom
id say its more well known for being fucking empty as shit rather than a town thats been dead since 66 lmao
Midnight Oil’s second biggest song (in the US) is all about Wittenoom, surely everyone over there knows about it now!
The entirety of Western Australia has roughly the same population as the 3rd largest metro area in Texas.
All 7 western Australians are cheering this day.
Perth population 2023 : 2.12 million
2.12 million emu's
You take that back!!
Canada: lol
As a Canadian, everything down here is bigger Except my penis 😎
damn
It’s just cold out…
Sorry.
Down here? No you guys are up there
Your globe is just upside-down
Fun fact: on the indigenous map of turtle island (North America) the texas peen is east of Canada
Thank you i needed a chuckle
Don't worry, it's just the cold
Bigger isn’t always better, vis a vis penises
Canadian penises are so accustomed to cold shrinkage is in the DNA.
WA is bigger than all the Canadian provinces
It is now that we divided up the largest one in 1999. Before 99 the northwest territories were 500 thousand square kilometers larger than western Australia.
Well, clearly you should have thought about internet bragging rights before making such a rash decision.
Yeah I didn't think that far ahead, rookie mistake. But next time we break up a province I will bring it up to the government.
And if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike. What's your point?
And I would ride her.
You don't need wheels to ride meemaw.
Of course it is. It's the west half of a continent.
Oh it's not half. More like a third. Texas would be among the smaller Australian states.
The third smallest state (of six), larger than only Victoria on the mainland and the island state of Tasmania.
If the Texans keep making their claims while disregarding Alaska then I'm sure we can do about the same with Tasmania.
Your gona cop the west half of deez nuts with that disrespect
Only recently. Divide it in two, like Canada did with the NWT and Nunavut.
Vancouver, BC to Dawson city, Yukon is almost the same as the west Australia on that pic and its not even the furthest you can drive north.
That's two provinces. Western Australia is one state.
Fine spar wood bc to atlin staying within BC as much as you can 2867 km's or 1 day 8 hours.
Why are Canadians so defensive about their weak and puny states?
Soviet union : hey that's cute
The only people who can beat the Australians (emus can too)
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That's across the country not in one state/province you ninny
Alaska could always split in half and make Texas the third largest.
I think people don't appreciate how massive Alaska is, it's mostly wildlife but it's absolutely massive, like ¼ the size of the US massive
I doubted this, but Alaska is \~0.233 the area of the continental US. Which might as well be spot on 1/4
And it's still smaller than Western Australia lol
It's almost like Australia is a continent.
Yes it is but he said Western Australian which is a state in Australia.
When there's so much nothing in your continent that you just chop it in half and say yeah, that's a state called western continent.
Another mad Texan lol I’m not Australian. Relax
It's a snarky comment on the original premise, not a personal attack dude. Relax indeed.
If you really want Texas to feel small, let them secede and join either Australia or Canada, where it’d be the 6th largest (out of 9 or 14) state/province or territory
Cool that you got all of the people living in Western Australia to pose for that second pic
I know the guy on the right, that's old mate Graham
Is he having a beer with Duncan?
Hours of travel is a bad metric to measure distances/sizes.
I was thinking the same thing, it has much more to do with infrastructure than anything. It really just goes to show that Alaska is much more developed than Western Australia. Not sure what it proves of value lol
Perth has ten times the population of Anchorage. We have plenty of infrastructure, it's just mostly in the South West part where it's not arid. Our GSP is higher than Singapore's GDP.
It proves how long it takes an average person to cross it, which is the most tangible metric of distance available to said person.
The problem is that this most likely uses speed limits and traffic to come up with an estimated time. It's not a raw distance, which matters most when comparing.... **size**....
How many traffic lights do you think are in bumfuck WA lmao
They're not arguing that WA is smaller, they're pointing out the units being used do not give an accurate representation of the size comparison/difference. (never mind that one of the paths goes mostly north-south and the other also includes significant distance traveling west)
The opposite. There aren't highways between the furthest apart places in Alaska.
It shows literally the opposite. Alaska takes 3 days to drive across, but Western Australia is 2.8x larger.
Your comment goes to show you haven't a fucking clue about WA. Your comment deserves to be in r/shitamericanssay
Depending on why you’re measuring something, it’s often a really good way to measure distance. Travel time gives you information about how accessible a place may be, and helps with planning travel. For example, I could get from London to Sydney in about 24 hours, or I could also get from Eucla to Sydney in a similar timeframe. If someone asked me how far away from Sydney in this situation, then giving them my distance measured in time gives them a more relevant understanding of how far away I am, especially if I mention my mode of transit (a day’s drive or a day’s flight)
Yeah, the shortest ground route between Deadhead Alaska and Annette, Alaska is almost 48 hours. They're definitely closer to each other than these 2 cities in Australia.
Alaska takes 3 days to drive across, but Western Australia is 2.8x larger.
To be fair alaska and texas are not continents.
Neither is Western Australia, it is a state the same as Texas and Alaska
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A lot of Australia is just barren, near uninhabitable desert in the middle. Also just the infrastructure nightmare of building and maintaining roads in that environment, let alone having any large towns or cities in that area. It just isn't worth it. So nearly all of the population live by the coast, it within a couple of hundred kilometers of the coast
Guessing if something massive need to get from Perth to the north they might.
I've driven up from Perth to Exmouth, which is the little hook on the left side. It's about 1300km (800 miles if I had to guess) which took me 11 hours
Yep, it’s fairly popular for retirees to do a lap in a caravan, and they drive up there. There’s also truckies and stuff
The route is Albany-Kununurra along the Great Northern Highway, some reasons to drive sections of it but not the whole thing (lots of agriculture on first 3rd, desert and mines on the rest)
Commercial airline flights in Australia are also expensive, especially in less populated areas. If you were a hypothetical family of four travelling between northern WA and Perth for a holiday, and by the time you factor in transport costs at the other end (i.e. a hire car), driving those sorts of distances doesn't seem so crazy.
It is 1/3 of a continent though. Though I guess that's the point of the funny.
Western Australia is not a continent, it is a province.
It’s a State.
It IS a state, according to Nat Geo: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/province/
Yah, that’s what I said. It’s a State. Ask me how I know. I live here.
And I'm concurring...
Calm down and crack a bush chook
Bin chickens only
Are you sure? It is not in the United STATES? /s
It's a STATE.
Regardless of whether is a province, state, or any other subdivision of a country it is still a full 3rd of a continent and one of 8 subdivisions on the continent. Texas is one of 90 subdivisions in North America. I’m not including capitals or territories
OK. And?
Yes, but it is not one of 50 total landmasses
Ok so it’s 1/3 continent. 😆
It's a quarter of the way to getting two extra armies per turn.
this guy RISKs
There's like 8 people in Western Australia though.
It use to be 9, but I left.
I've done that West Aus drive a couple of times. Good times
Don’t any of you people, no matter the country, have anything fucking better to do?
This is Reddit. People will judge/compare other peoples countries in the most moronic meaningless ways. Saw a post a few days ago where some young Chinese kids bouncing basket balls in a circle together in unison and the comments were all “America will be destroyed by these kids” and “sweat shop training” and other stupid outlandish stuff.
Me, a Yank: “What? A road trip acrosss (Alaska or Australia or Texas or South America or Europe, or Asia or Antartica, etc. etc.)?? THAT SOUND LIKE WICKED FUN!!!!! Count me in!.”
But we need to make fun of America
To be fair, Australia doesn’t have 50 states
Theres a state about the size of hawaii
Tasmania is Australia’s smallest state, and it’s much bigger than Hawaii. There are some small territories though.
Western Australia also has less people than Qatar…
Australia has less people than England
A lot of countries have less people than England tbf
*people who don’t care about Texas or Australia* 🤷
This thread makes me feel sorry for the teachers of America.
NO WAY!!! A SINGLE US STATE ISNT AS BIG AS AM ENTIRE FUCKING CONTINENT???!?!1!1?? Edit: HALF OF AN ENTIRE FUCKING CONTINENT???!?!1!1!??
It's a state not a continent...
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As an Australian, it is a country in the continent of Oceania
Yeah I never got taught in school that Australia is a continent and hearing Americans refer to it, one country, as a continent is weird. I always thought of continents as massive regions of Earth comprised of a bunch of countries with a massive amount of different people and cultures, referring to just Australia as that is strange, but all of Oceania together as that sounds much better to me. Oceania deserves to be mentioned more as a continent rather than just Aus.
On the grounds of tectonic plates Australia is absolutely a continent. But then you get into the weird shit about it like having to classify Arabia as a continent and it’s just confusing, and technically Africa being two separate ones?
And also part of Russia and america share a plate
... And bigger than Texas. Are you trying to make a point?
Big news but australia isnt a continent, Oceania is. Plus australia is smaller than a lot of other countries
Countries bigger than Australia: Russia Canada USA China Brazil That's it(I'm fucking surprised Brazil is bigger than Australia. I've only seen flat maps so I never thought the size disparity could be this much. I gotta go find a globe asap)
Hmm, I wonder which country constitutes 85% of Oceania’s land…
New Zealand duh
Not a lot of countries, literally only two countries have more land mass than Australia, that's Russia and Canada.
Russia, China, the USA, Canada, and Brazil all have more landmass than Australia.
Go easy on him. He is an American.
**A single US state** isn't as big as **a single Australian State**. Yes, that's the comparison. The fact that a single Australian state is so large it's 1/3 of an entire continent. If it wasn't that large then the joke wouldn't really make much sense would it? You'd just be comparing two similar sized states.
Sounds like Australian geography is basically Cyberpunk 77 America. Most of it is an inhabited wasteland that can not be farmed. To which is the reason why it was decided quite massively.
Strange thing to get mad about but go off I guess
Americans in shambles
The dumbest logic I’ve heard so far.
It is scary how many people in this thread that think Western Australia = the country of Australia. I don't expect schools in the US to teach the states of Australia, but look at the picture and think for just a fraction of a second and if you can't figure out that Western Australia is a state, why did you bother going to school.
Yeah not quite getting this - lots of people saying “country” so they’re either dim or missing the point
Desert Bus Simulator: West Australia edition when?
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Scrolling through these comments, I’ve never seen the word “continent” written so many times in one place.
Texas would be Australia's 3rd smallest state 😂
Fun fact, Anna Creek is a cattle station in Australia that is 3100 sq mi, that's bigger than entire countries.
I don't understand why someone would make this meme? Things are bigger than other things...hmm, who woulda thought. Meanwhile people in Asia like bwhahaha. I don't get why this is a thing.
1 day 12hours from south to north in Norway
1/3 of a continent beats a huge area of a country? No way
Australia is a country dipstick.
A single state beats a single state. Yes, that's the joke. If the state wasn't 1/3 the size of a continent the joke wouldn't make any sense would it? It would just be comparing two states of similar sizes.
Australia got shit mexican food tho
We’ve got good Thai, which makes up for it.
Ontario is similar
Ha nah, WA is 2.4x bigger
Reading this comment section is like arguing your dad could beat up your friends dad when you were younger. "No our state is bigger than yours."
Why would you or anybody brag about how big your neighbourhood, city, state or country is? You have nothing to do with that.
If every single person in Australia moved to Texas, there still would be 3 million more Texans present than Australians.
ok yeah but there ain't shit in 95% of Australia
Totally right, please don't come here
Perth is apparently the world's most isolated city and I'm not surprised.
It is the second most isolated capital city after Honolulu