The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

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  • @MsJubjubbird
    @MsJubjubbird Před rokem +739

    I went to school with a girl who lived on a sheep station that was many times larger than some European countries. Prior to boarding in the city, she was picked up in the morning and dropped off in the afternoon at her front gate by the school bus from the nearest town. However, the front gate was about 10 km from the homestead. So, as soon as she was tall enough to reach the pedals, she was taught to drive herself to the front gate in one of the station's cars and then drive herself home. Perfectly legal as she was on private property.

    • @hassanjamal6094
      @hassanjamal6094 Před rokem +8

      Where was this...the bus went to her home?

    • @hamgil
      @hamgil Před rokem +19

      I went to school with this family that owned a gigantic property as well, it ran over a state border

    • @MsJubjubbird
      @MsJubjubbird Před rokem +37

      ​@@hassanjamal6094 the bus went to the front gate of the property. However, the property was so big that the actual house was 10 km from the front gate. So she had to be driven/drive (I think she even mentioned riding a horse there sometimes and leaving it in a paddock near the gate). But she learnt to drive when she was about 9 years old

    • @Th3Sc4ndym4n
      @Th3Sc4ndym4n Před rokem +5

      In this situation it would also be legal for kids to drive themselves on public roads.

    • @rollerskdude
      @rollerskdude Před rokem +21

      @@Th3Sc4ndym4n Not in Australia. Only on private property as the commenter said.
      My dad learnt to drive a tractor at around 7, he grew up on a farm which is thanks to private property, perfectly legal.

  • @BiggestPLANTS
    @BiggestPLANTS Před rokem +2817

    This quickly got off track from talking about Anna Creek Station, and instead about the entire giant-Australian-cattle-farm business, and I loved every second of it

    • @spiritofthewoods3013
      @spiritofthewoods3013 Před rokem +60

      Don't forget that land is also 147 times the sizes of your profile picture

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 Před rokem +8

      Imagine your country being the size of a neighbourhood

    • @No1karez
      @No1karez Před rokem +7

      Me too 😁
      But I'm Australian so pretty much anything to do with my country I watch and or listen.. doesn't everybody? And it's always great to see people from other countries loving our beautiful sunburnt land.

    • @heyvsauce8444
      @heyvsauce8444 Před rokem

      Liechtenstein Supremacy

    • @__skillz
      @__skillz Před rokem +5

      Sam's gotta get 5 minutes of content somehow

  • @conorcrowley6256
    @conorcrowley6256 Před rokem +696

    The size of these Australian Cattle stations meant that they were one of the early precursors to zoom classes back in the day, using a single teacher with radios communicating with them.

    • @dimanyak373
      @dimanyak373 Před rokem +33

      @just i c e *NO*

    • @elenidemos
      @elenidemos Před rokem +69

      Ah I remember "school of the air".
      No we were NOT on the radio from 9am to 3pm. Most of the time it was doing the work required, as we can, then asking questions at specific time periods to get questions answered or the teacher going over certain items. Total radio time would be more like 2 hrs over the school day. Most teachers had multiple classes (usually different grades/years), which was the main reason for the specific time period for questions and teaching.

    • @yyaksok5039
      @yyaksok5039 Před rokem +4

      @@elenidemos honestly sounds a lot like homeschooling!

    • @rvoight92
      @rvoight92 Před rokem +17

      @@yyaksok5039 It sounds better than being homeschooled to me. Because you at least have a professional available to ask questions to. Being home schooled pre high speed internet days, if your parents didn't know something or didn't have the time to explain things, you were out of luck.

    • @yyaksok5039
      @yyaksok5039 Před rokem +8

      @@rvoight92 definitely agree with you for those pre-internet! I guess I was lucky enough to be homeschooled during the age of the internet, and also lucky that my parents hired tutors for stuff they couldn’t teach… so I have a fairly positive view of homeschooling (besides the social aspect lol) :)

  • @Learn_Something_New
    @Learn_Something_New Před rokem +1679

    In terms of crazy high figures for land ownership, the Roman Catholic Church is up there. The commonly agreed upon estimate is around 716,000 square kilometers (~276,000 square miles) of land around the world, including land in very expensive places like NYC. So while Vatican City is technically the world's smallest country, they own a lot more land abroad

    • @jeremysmith7176
      @jeremysmith7176 Před rokem +2

      Hard to say the Vatican owns as most of the land belongs to individual churches, dioceses, monasteries, etc.

    • @JuneNafziger
      @JuneNafziger Před rokem +43

      @@jeremysmith7176 does the Vatican not own most of those churches? I’m genuinely curious I don’t know the legal structure of the Catholic Church

    • @user-xb9yv2ci4c
      @user-xb9yv2ci4c Před rokem +70

      @@JuneNafziger afai know, most of the churches property belongs to the dioceses (that is the area of one bishop). I know, that the diocese of Köln (Cologne in English), which is one of 27 dioceses in Germany, has property of 3.4 billion €.

    • @Hadar1991
      @Hadar1991 Před rokem

      @@JuneNafziger No, Vatican does not own them, only some very few. From legal stand point of view every parish is separate entity and if parson goes rogue then bishop nor Pope cannot call police to remove him. Whole Catholic structure is build on believe that clergyman must be obedient to Pope but aside of Vatican it is not enforceable if somebody says no. So when in 1870s some clergymen rejected authority of Pope then all the wealth they administered was transferred to new organisation called "Old Catholic Church" :P

    • @EpicWolverine
      @EpicWolverine Před rokem

      Except the Vatican doesn’t. Parish land is usually owned by the diocese.

  • @jotdog9357
    @jotdog9357 Před rokem +857

    Fun fact, Lake Eyre is pronounced like "air" rather than "ire". Don't know if the colonist's name was pronounced that way but it's what we've run with 😅 Also has an Indigenous name as part of the official name, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc Před rokem +43

      " colonist" nah. Australians are the natives now. Deal with it.

    • @memethat...2822
      @memethat...2822 Před rokem +8

      @@RK-cj4oc 🤓 actually it's with not woth🤓

    • @furiouspunkboy
      @furiouspunkboy Před rokem +28

      Came here to make sure someone corrected this

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc Před rokem +1

      @@memethat...2822 thanks man.

    • @danielfp5253
      @danielfp5253 Před rokem +39

      *Mispronounces lake eyre… “now that I haven’t said anything to upset people”😂

  • @adrielsebastian5216
    @adrielsebastian5216 Před rokem +189

    Real HAI fans will remember that he mentioned this in passing in another HAI episode 👀
    Edit: it's the dingo fence episode

  • @elygolden
    @elygolden Před rokem +779

    I think the reason the press uses Israel is because, even excluding disputed territory, it is the largest country not larger than the ranch that they can be reasonably sure that their readers to have heard of

    • @catipolX
      @catipolX Před rokem +107

      bro the whole thing is disputed territory

    • @D0cSwiss
      @D0cSwiss Před rokem +29

      @@catipolX Yes, but most people have heard of it, which is more than you can say about a lot of other smallish countries

    • @gg3675
      @gg3675 Před rokem +20

      Sure, if you leave out Belize, El Salvador, and Djibouti.

    • @cl9615
      @cl9615 Před rokem +4

      @@catipolX Not the entire thing

    • @jonahs92
      @jonahs92 Před rokem +33

      @@catipolX "The whole thing is disputed territory"
      Yeah, if you're a racist who thinks Jews don't deserve the right to self-determination in their homeland 🙄

  • @thestig747
    @thestig747 Před rokem +73

    Never did I think that a cafe in the Sydney suburb in which I grew up in, Wahroonga, would somehow end up in a HAI video. This channel continues to amaze (and baffle).

    • @AidenHowlett
      @AidenHowlett Před rokem +2

      Decent attempt at pronouncing it, too

    • @DavidRosstheawesome
      @DavidRosstheawesome Před rokem +1

      Agreed - I've had many breakfasts and brunches at that very cafe.
      Not what I was expecting

  • @dataisbrilliant
    @dataisbrilliant Před rokem +340

    “How does a farm the size of 147 Liechtensteins manage to operate?
    That’s a very good question, I think the aliens are helping them.

    • @WolfandCatUnite
      @WolfandCatUnite Před rokem

      yes

    • @dataisbrilliant
      @dataisbrilliant Před rokem

      @beyond your imagination You Rick Rolled me, again.

    • @BiggestPLANTS
      @BiggestPLANTS Před rokem +5

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    • @dataisbrilliant
      @dataisbrilliant Před rokem +1

      @@BiggestPLANTS Bruh, seriously 😐
      lol 😂

    • @BiggestPLANTS
      @BiggestPLANTS Před rokem +2

      @@dataisbrilliantwhat can i say, it was obligatory

  • @bartholomewdan
    @bartholomewdan Před rokem +145

    I like how you can tell the animators got bored of drawing Wales about 5 minutes in.

    • @malvarezv97
      @malvarezv97 Před rokem +12

      I think that was Wales with sea borders hence why it looks so chunky

    • @chriswoolley6951
      @chriswoolley6951 Před rokem +4

      Abit inconsistent drawing wales with sea borders and the rest without, felt like wales was being victimised

  • @MarieInnes
    @MarieInnes Před rokem +136

    My great-grandfather was a stockman for Sir Sidney Kidman at Longreach cattle up in Queensland and is in the Australian Stockmans Hall Of Fame.

    • @jonatanrullman
      @jonatanrullman Před rokem +15

      Stockman hall of fame must be one if the most australian things I've herd.

    • @MarieInnes
      @MarieInnes Před rokem +4

      @@jonatanrullman LOL I know, right

    • @adamschofield1887
      @adamschofield1887 Před rokem

      Impressive title

    • @svanimation8969
      @svanimation8969 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@MarieInneswtf 😂

    • @dalane5196
      @dalane5196 Před měsícem

      A Kidman stockman makes a Vesty’s Manager, or so they said.

  • @jakenum30
    @jakenum30 Před rokem +40

    As someone that's recently driven the Oodnadatta track and driven through William creek and Anna creek station, words do not do justice to the absolute vast emptiness of the land up there

  • @welshduckman8562
    @welshduckman8562 Před rokem +176

    As a member of the giant Austrailian Cattle Station busisness, this was very accurate, thank you!

    • @Axman6
      @Axman6 Před rokem +7

      Accurate but pronounced nearly completely incorrectly.

    • @alyoshamikhaylov7651
      @alyoshamikhaylov7651 Před rokem +1

      So you are one of those 11 people?

    • @welshduckman8562
      @welshduckman8562 Před rokem +1

      @@Axman6 Very fair😆😆

    • @welshduckman8562
      @welshduckman8562 Před rokem +19

      @@alyoshamikhaylov7651 No ours is only the size of three Lichtensteins!

    • @10sDPR
      @10sDPR Před rokem +3

      Username does not check out.

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 Před rokem +406

    Bigger than 49 countries but probably with a smaller population than an apartment block in China
    Edit: damn wait 11 people? More like a single floor of an apartment block in China… or literally any apartment block ever

    • @rotciv808
      @rotciv808 Před rokem +5

      @Patrick Hudson came here to say this.

    • @meee_5155
      @meee_5155 Před rokem +3

      Pretty sure it has something like 8 people
      Correction:11
      Close enough

    • @MarieInnes
      @MarieInnes Před rokem

      Probably the correct population for … A FARM, though.

    • @MrKelsomatic
      @MrKelsomatic Před rokem

      Could’ve just said “one story apartment building” an apartment block in China is way more than 11 people.

    • @Frexuz
      @Frexuz Před rokem +2

      Theres over 1000 people in my apartment complex 😂 (hong kong)

  • @philip4846
    @philip4846 Před rokem +8

    Kidman, who created the largest cattle station started at 15 with nothing.
    He gradually built his holdings with a brilliant concept in mind.
    If the station was large enough in the north south direction, no matter what time of the year there would be water somewhere on the property. It worked.

    • @dalane5196
      @dalane5196 Před 3 měsíci

      He also sold a 25% stake in BHP for 1200 quid, when he died it was worth far mare than his total wealth, far more.

  • @adithyamenon8517
    @adithyamenon8517 Před rokem +61

    Remember this from the Top Gear Episode. The numbers thrown at me back then boggled my mind. Still does. That and the fact that they use helicopters to herd their thousands of cattle.

    • @alexkoch8716
      @alexkoch8716 Před rokem +1

      That one was wave hill/ cattle creek station in the NT

    • @adithyamenon8517
      @adithyamenon8517 Před rokem

      @@alexkoch8716 you're right. I remember that now.

    • @alexkoch8716
      @alexkoch8716 Před rokem

      @@adithyamenon8517 one of the best episodes I recon 👍

    • @br-sb6vu
      @br-sb6vu Před 9 měsíci

      The majority of cattle stations in Australia use helicopters to muster cattle

  • @jakereynolds4259
    @jakereynolds4259 Před rokem +67

    Something that really weirded me out was when you said that the temperature regularly hits 55c on a cattle farm … that’s the temperature that we will cook a joint of beef at the restaurant I work at so it’s a nice rosy rare-medium rare, so I can only assume that these cows are walking around basically precooked

    • @User31129
      @User31129 Před rokem +11

      Can hit. Not regularly hits. It can hit -20 in winter here in Michigan. But I think that's literally happened like 4 days in my 36 years of life.

    • @drcgaming4195
      @drcgaming4195 Před rokem +21

      @@User31129 american man trying to comprehend australian temperatures be like

    • @uselessgeneral1299
      @uselessgeneral1299 Před rokem

      @@drcgaming4195 does it better than most, half the cunts go and say that every day its 50C here, or that anything above 30C is blisteringly hot, no inbetween.

    • @Alan_Hans__
      @Alan_Hans__ Před rokem +7

      Medium rare isn't cooked. :D

    • @jakethesnake23a
      @jakethesnake23a Před rokem +16

      If it's any consolation, the record temperature ever recorded in Australia is slightly under 51 degrees.
      I've gone higher with thermometers in my car, but it's irrelevant. Point is, don't leave anything in enclosed spaces.

  • @samstudios9908
    @samstudios9908 Před rokem +28

    As an Australian I must fulfil my constitutional duty and explain the ‘oo’ in Wahroonga is pronounced as a short vowel sound (like you’re saying on and in at the same time). In any case, if you are passing Wahroonga I recommend the butchers block just down the road instead!

    • @epicbeardface2981
      @epicbeardface2981 Před rokem +1

      It used to be a butcher shop owned by Percy Bergen I worked there about 30 years ago also Bonjour Patisserie (great pies and cherry danish) was a Lanes Meats butchery as well, I worked there for about 3 years.

    • @vlada-jo6md
      @vlada-jo6md Před rokem +3

      Wahroonga station has some great cafés

    • @TheKazragore
      @TheKazragore Před rokem +1

      Also the pronunciation of Woomera was a little triggering. "Woo-meh-rah"? Really? :P

    • @samstudios9908
      @samstudios9908 Před rokem +1

      @@epicbeardface2981 I like how on every CZcams video about Australia, there is always the Aussie meet and greet in the comments! Thanks for the tip about the cherry danish, next time I’m down in Sydney I’ll have to try one

  • @five-toedslothbear4051
    @five-toedslothbear4051 Před rokem +27

    That S. Kidman logo you used has an amazing coincidence. In telegraphy, SK with an overbar would mean it's the SK prosign, transmitted in Morse Code like an S and a K run together. It means "End of Contact/End of Work" It's also commonly used in Amateur Radio circles to mean "Silent Key", indicating an operator whose "key" will never be heard again, because they're deceased, as Sir Sidney Kidman is. Their website uses a different logo, probably because some smart aleck like me pointed that out.

  • @daphnefleurrr
    @daphnefleurrr Před rokem +8

    As someone who lives on the North Shore and has been to Wahroonga station many times, the mention caught me so off guard.

  • @GameKing298
    @GameKing298 Před rokem +41

    Good video, the audio mastering was a bit odd on this one, you sounded rather distant for some reason.

    • @LuxrayIsEpic
      @LuxrayIsEpic Před rokem +1

      Glad it wasn't just me who noticed the audio

    • @Labestiol74
      @Labestiol74 Před rokem

      Damn thanks, I had to scroll down for this comment, the audio is so weird, the start really put me off

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam Před rokem +3

      Obviously he sounded distant. He was all the way in Australia

    • @soundscape26
      @soundscape26 Před rokem

      It started like that but got progressively back to normal as the video run. Some EQ problem or something.

  • @TicketToKnow
    @TicketToKnow Před rokem +18

    Always nice to see Southern Hemisphere content! Also, if you need an Australian place-name accent coach please hmu 😅 Woomera, Oodnadatta, and Lake Eyre send their regards

    • @AidenHowlett
      @AidenHowlett Před rokem

      And Wahroonga, close, but not quite on the money.

  • @Goatcha_M
    @Goatcha_M Před rokem +8

    My dad once worked as a stockman at Alexandria Station which at the time was even bigger, biggest farm in the world. 11,000 Square miles.
    But a law was passed limiting how much Australian land could be owned by overseas parties and half the station got sold off. Its still the 3rd biggest station in Australia, but not what it used to be.

  • @aidenburgess217
    @aidenburgess217 Před rokem +11

    The Coober Pedy butcher's the best smash patties in south Australia, go there if you ever get the chance. Oh and also check out the big winch or something idk.

  • @Itsundiscovered
    @Itsundiscovered Před rokem +34

    Amazing video, really informative and engaging! Just be careful, at 1:20 you said the indigenous Australians (Aboriginals) had lived on this land for centuries. The actual number is closer to 50,000 to 60,000 years, making it correct to say millennia instead of centuries.

    • @gummo1830
      @gummo1830 Před rokem +4

      oldest living population!

    • @MashLimit
      @MashLimit Před rokem +2

      Centuries is still correct though.

    • @shishirgurung4427
      @shishirgurung4427 Před rokem

      @@MashLimit you could say seconds too and be correct but context is important

  • @WizardAngst
    @WizardAngst Před rokem +7

    Woomera- Woom-erah not Woo-MEra
    Eyre - Air but like you're Australian
    Port Augsta - Pordagudda
    Ooodnadatta - Oodanadada. There are no emphasises, this is Australia, we only put emphasis on drinking.
    THANK YOU THAT IS ALL.

  • @Blo55
    @Blo55 Před rokem +17

    Why does the audio quality suck?

    • @Swissstuff
      @Swissstuff Před rokem +1

      Maybe he’s on a trip and doesn’t have the best mic

  • @Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone
    @Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone Před rokem +24

    the subtitles aren’t right, but is hilarious
    (he removed it now sadly)

  • @mathewblanc9936
    @mathewblanc9936 Před rokem +68

    "Overlooking the fact that Indigenous people had managed to live off that land for c̶e̶n̶t̶u̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ millennia" FTFY
    Also, it seems that your average MPV (mispronunciation per video) goes way up with Australian content, might be worth getting an Australian in to run through the script with you whenever you're talking about us (happy to provide that help if you don't know any Australians).

    • @byrongsmith
      @byrongsmith Před rokem +5

      I second both of these. Also, no part of the Australian continent has ever been ceded by the First Peoples who lived here for tens of millennia. So if we're going to talk ownership, then "Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal land".

    • @thekrakenrises9040
      @thekrakenrises9040 Před rokem +6

      @@byrongsmith Look I have no skin in this game, but land doesn't need to be ceded in a treaty for you to lose ownership of it. If you can't defend your land with military strength, then the land belongs to whatever stronger power that wants it. That's how land has shifted ownership over millennia in our planet. Conquest and Resettlement are not unique to Australia or even in the context of European settler colonies. Look at present-day Ukraine for example, the land is only Ukrainian if they can defend it with blood sweat and tears. If they lose the war, then Russia will roll in and then the land shifts ownership irrespective of anyone "ceding" any land.

    • @byrongsmith
      @byrongsmith Před rokem +1

      @@thekrakenrises9040 There are more forms of strength than lethal violence. And more ways to belong to land than killing anyone who questions your right to have stolen it.

    • @MsJubjubbird
      @MsJubjubbird Před rokem +1

      nah it's cute seeing overseas people try and not always get it right. At least they are trying

    • @GarethKing1
      @GarethKing1 Před rokem

      @@thekrakenrises9040 observing the way megalomaniac, oppressive leaders abused the peaceful historically is absolutely not a justification for it. That's like saying a victim of abuses body belongs, in the time of abuse, to the overpowering party. Yes, it happens, no it's not right.

  • @DevinSloan
    @DevinSloan Před rokem +23

    I love Sam, and I think pretty much everything about him is amazing, except for watching him run up that hill in Amsterdam with Joseph. That was painful.

    • @DZ477
      @DZ477 Před rokem +4

      Wait can you give a link to that video? My day is awful already so a little cringe wont hurt... I think.

    • @Alex632
      @Alex632 Před rokem +1

      @@DZ477 lmao

    • @DevinSloan
      @DevinSloan Před rokem +3

      @@DZ477 it’s the most recent jet lag video.

    • @bartholomewdan
      @bartholomewdan Před rokem +1

      "Hill in Amsterdam" is a bit of an oxymoron.

  • @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832

    please show measurements in metric as well. most of the world has no idea how big square footage is when in miles

    • @AlphaGeekgirl
      @AlphaGeekgirl Před rokem

      Especially when less than 5% of the world knows “square footage”

    • @shrimpshrubbery7664
      @shrimpshrubbery7664 Před rokem

      Cry about it. Most of his viewers are probably American.

    • @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832
      @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832 Před rokem +1

      @@shrimpshrubbery7664 assuming that’s true, it still takes two seconds to add both units of measurement in. a reminder that you’re the only country to use the imperial system, a system that only makes sense to you because you’ve grown up with it

    • @shrimpshrubbery7664
      @shrimpshrubbery7664 Před rokem

      @@griffinsimpson-tuckey9832 Oh I wish we could change but it would take wayy to huge of an effort and would be pretty expensive.

    • @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832
      @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832 Před rokem

      @@shrimpshrubbery7664 you’re right. those kind of changes can’t just happen overnight, and the world has bigger issues at hand

  • @MeRock59
    @MeRock59 Před rokem +8

    While operating combine harvesters "headers" in Aus, I learned about the "Long Paddock". Essentially it is the grass on the side of the highway, where ranchers can graze their cattle, between the fences of neighboring farms and absolutely on the road. Will you make a video about that?

    • @4kdefinition70
      @4kdefinition70 Před rokem

      why would anyone graze cattle on the road?

    • @matthewwilson3651
      @matthewwilson3651 Před 3 měsíci

      @@4kdefinition70 when drought hits livestock producers some not all drove their stock around on horseback for months at a time on the long paddock chasing water and feed still happens today

  • @equestathon9618
    @equestathon9618 Před rokem +3

    It was so weird hearing you talk about the way we run properties, have mail delivered, and small rural town economies like it was something incredible, but it's exactly the same arrangement as my grandparent's 270,000acres in western NSW and my close friend's 480,000acres (though it's technically 8 properties) in central QLD.

  • @intrepid1160
    @intrepid1160 Před rokem +3

    Surprised to see City of Ember. One of my favorite book series, even got to meet the author when I was younger.

  • @grahamjacob97
    @grahamjacob97 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I went to Darwin High School, the "Tank" at the school provided water for the abattoirs (obviously before it was a school). One of the stations that provided cattle for the abattoir was the VRD, which about 100 years ago was about 50% bigger than Anna Creek.
    I also recall when in Geraldton my kids talking to another child at a BBQ and the child saying they got the beef from their station at it was 1000 acres and then the mother mentioned actually it was 1000km2. Just a small one.

  • @CallanKilderry
    @CallanKilderry Před rokem +7

    3:25 Lake Eyre is pronounced like air (yeah I don't know how that spelling makes that pronunciation), normally it's empty but it does have a yacht club.

    • @VitalVampyr
      @VitalVampyr Před rokem +1

      My completely uniformed guess is:
      "Ey" is pronounced like the letter A
      British English thinks "-re" should be pronounced like "er" for some reason.
      Slur those together and it's basically pronounced the same as "air".

  • @alozzola
    @alozzola Před rokem +3

    I remember driving through this property on a drive to see Lake Eyre, I remember seeing a cow that was bigger than our 4x4. This cow was absolutely massive!

  • @jpaior
    @jpaior Před rokem +16

    You should have asked an Aussie how to pronounce literally all of that. LOL :)

  • @kaan-kaant
    @kaan-kaant Před rokem

    Actually just came back from a holiday where we stopped at Coober Pedy, it's wild that the town exists. There's a decent amount of opal there, but it's also the only town on the way to Alice Springs once you're past port Augusta. No phone reception most of the way there, and even the Roadhouses along the way are spaced out hundreds of kilometres apart from each other.

  • @timn6864
    @timn6864 Před rokem +2

    Fun fact... Coober Pedy sits on top of the Arckaringa Basin which is an oil reserve some estimates say is arguably larger than Saudi . It went suspiciously quiet after the study though

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 Před rokem +11

    0:10 WTF is that map of Wales 😂😂😂

    • @dankjae
      @dankjae Před rokem +1

      Wales with maritime sea borders.

    • @VitalVampyr
      @VitalVampyr Před rokem +2

      The artist wasn't sure whether to draw Wales or a whale, so they tried to do both.

  • @moduleapothem6446
    @moduleapothem6446 Před rokem +5

    For the annual mistakes video: At 0:56, misspelled “bovine” as “bovin”

  • @BenWeaver0
    @BenWeaver0 Před rokem +8

    Me: "im not a nerd"
    Also me: *has watched every Hai and wendover video*

  • @Maxyy40
    @Maxyy40 Před rokem +5

    To answer Sam from HAIs question. Yes I did love your joke regarding the world famous Antonia Kidman.

    • @geolawie
      @geolawie Před rokem

      It was a perfect joke.

  • @Fizzrabble
    @Fizzrabble Před rokem +16

    Dude, I absolutely love your videos, but I need to give you this feedback…As an Australian, this video was hard to watch, with the gross mispronunciations of almost every place name. I’ve heard this in your other Australian-based videos too, which was also grinding my gears. I can only assume this is true for all your videos of foreign places. It might be worth checking with a local on how to pronounce local places or words, I think it will increase the quality/impact of your videos so much more. Keep up the great content, thank you!

    • @Fizzrabble
      @Fizzrabble Před rokem +2

      P.s. I’m happy to be your Aussie word pronunciation coach if you want, just hit me up.

  • @YeloPartyHat
    @YeloPartyHat Před rokem +8

    But yet land where I live still in Australia manages to be $1m+ per 400m2

  • @danii8307
    @danii8307 Před rokem +3

    Excellent subtitles they are so informative

  • @peterk2455
    @peterk2455 Před rokem +3

    You pronounce Australian names with the same accuracy that a Bantu tribesman would pronounce Massachusetts. Oh, The Station on Coonanbarra Road, Wahroongah, is a good feed.

  • @masonsmall1740
    @masonsmall1740 Před rokem +10

    As an Australian, calling it lake "ire", not "air" almost killed me.

  • @scottmcnaughton539
    @scottmcnaughton539 Před rokem +6

    Literally no one in Australia would ever describe any of these properties as a Ranch. They are farms.

  • @durhamdownsschoolroom8628

    Hi, I used to live there back when SK owned it in the early 2010s. I was only five when we left it to go to the neighboring station Innamicka but that's also sold to we are one of the remaining few cattle stations left under the original SK brand. I lived on its outstation the Peak, my Dad used to run it. Its owned by teh Willaims cattle company now and we are really great friends with them they are really nice people. It is truly the end of an era.

  • @jurjenbos228
    @jurjenbos228 Před rokem

    Your segue to the ad at the end was very satisfying.

  • @mixe
    @mixe Před rokem +3

    I read the book mentioned at 3:03 years ago and was never able to remember the name. Now all of a sudden it's mentioned in a HAI video and holy shit!! I did not expect this at all so thank you..?

  • @benwilson9150
    @benwilson9150 Před rokem +16

    Oh Sam, Sam, Sam you disappoint me and make me laugh at the same time! You need to come to the land down under and learn how words are pronounced. Lake Eyre is a good example, Eyre is pronounced like the word air. We do have very harsh and unforgiving environment especially the further inland you go. It is amazing how these station work with so few people and very few resources. The stations also really do highlight the size of our island nation that people from Europe and even the Americas just don’t understand.

    • @jakethesnake23a
      @jakethesnake23a Před rokem +2

      Honestly, just call someone here. I felt like the first half of the video was just trying to annoy us with that (I know it's his thing, but my god does it trigger me).

    • @MsJubjubbird
      @MsJubjubbird Před rokem

      i think they contract extra hands during things like musters. Station owners can contract aviation companies to help with herding. Then the pilots work for another station a few days later when the job is done.
      But they also have dogs, which really reduces their need for people. Dogs can do a huge amount of work for almost free.

    • @DsiPro1000
      @DsiPro1000 Před rokem

      someone caught a shark in Lake Eyre!

  • @tncorgi92
    @tncorgi92 Před rokem +1

    Coober Pedy seems like a fascinating place, there are some good videos out there. You build your dwelling underground and you may run across an opal bonanza. I couldn't handle the heat though.

  • @platinum7482
    @platinum7482 Před rokem +17

    Is it just me or does the audio sound a bit off for this video? like it is at a lower bit rate compared to previous videos on this channel

    • @acerebral_
      @acerebral_ Před rokem

      sounds like noise suppression, probably was just recorded somewhere else than usual and the editor had to make do. sometimes it almost sounds sped up or ai generated though which is really weird

  • @BiggestPLANTS
    @BiggestPLANTS Před rokem +4

    147 Liechtensteins is not enough. There can never be enough Liechtensteins

  • @silverXnoise
    @silverXnoise Před rokem +6

    Coober Pedy has a population of 1765 people, and yet as a resident of Charlotte, NC I’ve totally heard of it. I think it’s got opal mines?

    • @marvindebot3264
      @marvindebot3264 Před rokem +3

      Indeed it does, a lot of them and lots of the underground houses he mentioned, why roast above ground, it's a constant 23c underground.

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise Před rokem +2

      That’s right. Thanks to Tom Scott, who else?

    • @blumoogle2901
      @blumoogle2901 Před rokem +1

      Yup, I learned about the opal mines in Harry Potter fanfiction.

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise Před rokem

      @@marvindebot3264 (Insert mildly offensive joke about Aussie hobbits here)

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise Před rokem

      @@blumoogle2901 I always thought the Sorcerer’s Stone came from the bloody Congolese mines of Leopold II…

  • @TobaT3
    @TobaT3 Před rokem +7

    the subtitles are for a different video but ok

  • @Nidera2DX
    @Nidera2DX Před rokem +6

    Is it me, or are the closed captions completely incorrect?

  • @plasticbleach4004
    @plasticbleach4004 Před rokem +5

    This is the farm that uses a Bentley, a Nissan GT-R, and a BMW, right?

    • @alexkoch8716
      @alexkoch8716 Před rokem

      Same type different station. Top gear went to a station in the NT named wave hill. Same concept though. Just 2500km or so north of this station

  • @AustralianBigot
    @AustralianBigot Před rokem +7

    Lake Eyre is pronounced "air" and it is no longer called that. It has gone back to it's indigenous name.

    • @someguy5035
      @someguy5035 Před rokem +1

      We'll call it whatever we want.

    • @Dingo4440
      @Dingo4440 Před rokem

      Too most of us it is still Lake Eyre. Until the ABC and Labor make everyone learn the over 400 Indigenous languages to supposedly unashamedly feel 'Australian' in their eyes.🙄

    • @AustralianBigot
      @AustralianBigot Před rokem

      @@Dingo4440 and why not embrace Aboriginal culture? It was part of my world growing up and likely yours unless you're some inner city hipster that has never left your suburb.

  • @alirazi9198
    @alirazi9198 Před rokem +1

    0:18 your sarcasm is unmatched

  • @gardnep
    @gardnep Před rokem

    That was an outstanding presentation that moved at the jumped about and moved at the speed of a big red.

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 Před rokem +6

    How does it go? Anything less than 50000 acres is a hobby farm?

    • @Wint910
      @Wint910 Před rokem

      lol, but in all seriousness, the average farm here in australia is just above 10,000 acres (funnily enough mines exactly 10,000 acres) and hobby farms are normally under 500 acres (unless your on the coast)

  • @axelfoley133
    @axelfoley133 Před rokem +4

    HAI: Why is Australia full of these bovine micronations?
    Me, an Australian: We will fight for bovine freedom
    And hold our large heads high
    We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
    Cows with guns

  • @thomaswright1229
    @thomaswright1229 Před rokem +1

    Im from Sydney and I literally had lunch at 'The Station' in Wahroongah last week. That was hilarious haha

  • @trj1442
    @trj1442 Před rokem

    Excellent episode. Love from Australia.

  • @TriMs1
    @TriMs1 Před rokem +3

    Nice audio!

  • @escomz
    @escomz Před rokem +4

    Actually there is a Ranch in Australia called "Kidman & Co" that was literally half the size of the UK before it got sold (it was over 100,000 sq/km) it's literally bigger than Belgium, Neatherlands Israel etc... it's much bigger than Anna Creek Station.
    Oh and also Nicole Kidman is related to Sidney Kidman, the historic founder of the massive ranch!
    Oh and also, Anna Creek Station used to be part of Kidman & Co Ranch! Before it was sold and separated.

  • @goosedoesvideogames
    @goosedoesvideogames Před rokem +1

    I’ve been to William Creek and Coober Pedy and the drive between the 2 is about 4 hours

  • @asphyxiafeeling
    @asphyxiafeeling Před 3 měsíci

    The City of Ember shout out was cool. I enjoyed reading that book as a teen

  • @chakra6666
    @chakra6666 Před rokem +540

    Congratulations on pronouncing practically every name wrong :) The Australian language can be hard for foreigners to learn, so I'll forgive you.

    • @bidoof367
      @bidoof367 Před rokem +105

      g'day mate wallaby kangaroo emu

    • @sirapple589
      @sirapple589 Před rokem +57

      Australian as a dialect changes based on accent and the amount of illicit substances pumping through the speaker’s veins.

    • @AcbTyson
      @AcbTyson Před rokem +3

      I was about to say the same thing. This video was comedic for the wrong reasons.

    • @MarieInnes
      @MarieInnes Před rokem +7

      Oodna”data” lol

    • @nudenut1916
      @nudenut1916 Před rokem +11

      Lets hear more about this "Australian Language".

  • @TheHylianBatman
    @TheHylianBatman Před rokem +3

    Ah, Australia: It's bigger than Texas, and so is everything inside it.

    • @mollymuch2808
      @mollymuch2808 Před měsícem

      Australia is almost same size as US but 95% empty
      Different climate
      46 % tropical and some equatorial a whole lot of subtropical
      Arid and Mediterranean

  • @paulmarynissen
    @paulmarynissen Před rokem

    I do get a chuckle out of your pronunciation of our aussie place names

  • @jaewardtattoo
    @jaewardtattoo Před rokem +1

    Now I want a video about the worlds largest land weapons testing range

  • @ducati_red9162
    @ducati_red9162 Před rokem +4

    The subtitles tho 😂 I thought I was hearing it wrong at first

    • @ducati_red9162
      @ducati_red9162 Před rokem

      @@iykury it was a completely unrelated video about Russian McDonald’s

    • @ducati_red9162
      @ducati_red9162 Před rokem

      @@iykury yeah it was funny tho

  • @BoraCM
    @BoraCM Před rokem +3

    0:10. That map includes the Welsh maritime borders, which makes it look weird.

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Once upon a time, Victoria River Downs was the size of Denmark.
    After WW1 the Australian government thought it too large and divided it into 4 for Soldier Settlers to run.

  • @himabimdimwim
    @himabimdimwim Před rokem

    The reference to the city of ember book was a wild surprise!

  • @ringtone_rhythm
    @ringtone_rhythm Před rokem +3

    At 0:30 is that... Is that DankPods.

  • @davidmolin8944
    @davidmolin8944 Před rokem +5

    The audio feels off in the beginning, I thought my audio was going bad

  • @MattThrum
    @MattThrum Před rokem +2

    It was a solid attempt pronouncing Wahroonga (“War-un-gar”) but not quite there - did not expect to get a shout out!

  • @mrgray5576
    @mrgray5576 Před rokem

    Hey, i worked on Anna creek station doing flora and fauna surveys.

  • @aaronleverton4221
    @aaronleverton4221 Před rokem +5

    "As big as Texas..."
    "Yeah, nah, but good try mate."
    I grew up for a time on Granite Downs Station and the idea that Texas is "big" is just, well, amusing.
    Yeah, I see what you did about the relative.

    • @111jacare
      @111jacare Před rokem +2

      Granite Downs? Let me think... Chandler siding on the Darwin line in the area?
      Yes, Texans are going to have to come down under and discover that Australia is bigger than Texas! Our stations, road trains and a few other things....

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 Před rokem

      @@111jacare Got off the Ghan at Chandler.

  • @SpiffoGaming
    @SpiffoGaming Před rokem +3

    2:59 listing an actual readable number is so out of character for HAI. Should have said that it has a population 1.4x that of Muldraugh Kentucky in 1990

  • @michaelsmith4904
    @michaelsmith4904 Před rokem

    I got the City of Ember reference because that movie recap popped up in my feed near this video!

  • @1mezion
    @1mezion Před rokem

    Don't think I ever came across this channel before but I like it 👍

  • @js24765
    @js24765 Před rokem +6

    Cheers for poking fun at the Murdoch press's deluded bias. Very good video!

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před rokem +1

      Australia really needs to get rid of Sky News Aus, that cancer is a killer - I had no idea Australia had it's own mini FOX News!

  • @mitchellfriesen4795
    @mitchellfriesen4795 Před rokem +3

    Hey a suggestion for another gigantic farm would be Monette farms in Saskatchewan. They have a very interesting story and own land all over North America

  • @jamescogswell9297
    @jamescogswell9297 Před rokem

    Ooh, the city of ember! I remember reading that as a kid.

  • @WhyForWhatNow
    @WhyForWhatNow Před rokem +1

    I turned off Close Captions to see the full Kidman joke, only to be pleasantly surprised by it's positioning
    Whoever edits these videos is an angel

  • @s0659651
    @s0659651 Před rokem +3

    I need to watch it twice. Once for the video and once for the closed captions!

  • @geoofficial1
    @geoofficial1 Před rokem +7

    I’m Australian and this is really scared, the richest person in our country, Gina Rhinehart, privately owns 1.2% of all land in australia.

  • @oicmapper
    @oicmapper Před 3 měsíci

    The lake beside it is called British Anna Creek Station or Bewize

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr Před rokem +1

    2:38 while it's true 3G and 4G signals are in the UHF band, the UHF signals the staion uses are probably not the same range as cell phone towers

  • @subhams902
    @subhams902 Před rokem +12

    Whoever disliked this video clearly needs to get a covid test, because one the major symtoms is lack of taste.

    • @bidoof367
      @bidoof367 Před rokem

      it only has DISLIKE dislikes

  • @thepaddockengineer
    @thepaddockengineer Před rokem +3

    I love how the first SI unit given was rainfall... in cm.

  • @neilmccoy9390
    @neilmccoy9390 Před rokem

    The former Australian farm Kidman station was 50,000 sq miles about 100 years ago, similar to the size of Texas.

  • @4ce2watch
    @4ce2watch Před rokem

    Never expected to see Wahroonga on a HAI video