The Real Reason There's A Massive Void In Southern Australia

📲 Download Airalo free today, and use my code GEOFF3 for $3 USD OFF your data plan 👉🏻 https://try.airalo.com/geographybygeoff -- The Insane Geography of the French Alps (3 Days Hike): https://youtu.be/0NyEN4TWy64 -- 📖 Subscribe to my Substack! 👉 https://geographicgeoff.substack.com -- If you look at a satellite image of Australia at night, two bright clusters of light dominate the southern half of the continent. In the southeast, a sprawling network of light connects Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Far to the west, the city of Perth glows brightly as one of the most isolated major cities on Earth. But between them is almost nothing… a huge dark void. This is the region of the Great Australian Bight, a coastline stretching for over a thousand kilometers that, on a map, looks like it should be prime real estate. Yet, it remains almost entirely empty. So why are there no major cities along this large stretch of Australian coastline? -- Chapters: 0:00 - Great Australian Bight 0:37 - A Huge Dark Void 6:02 - But People Have Lived Here For Millenia 10:47 - The Nullarbor Plain And The Bunda Cliffs -- 🌳 Find me: https://linktr.ee/geoffgibson 🗺️ Map store: https://mapsbygeoff.com -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)