Reaction To 20 of Australia's Weird Geographical Quirks
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- Reaction To 20 of Australia's Weird Geographical Quirks
This is my reaction to 20 of Australia's Weird Geographical Quirks
In this video I react to Australian geography facts about the awesome country Australia.
Original Video - • 20 of Australia's Weir...
Why do Americans never bother to find out how place names and general words are pronounced?
Text to speech. It's horrible.
Just came here to make that exact comment. He mispronounced almost every name! It was doing my head in!
Hear hear! It drives me bonkers
@@georgiemoon9990 well he got Eucla right. i got to 13 minutes and muted the comments and went to closed captions.
It would work quite well as a comedy sketch. I was laughing for almost the whole video. 😄
Would be nice having an actual Australian doing these documentaries, especially when there are facts that are wrong and the hideous pronunciations 😅
OMG the guy mispronounced Macquarie Island as Mackwerry, Murray as Murr-AYE, Eyre as Eye-er and Antipodes exactly as it's spelled 😅 Often, Americans doing these videos have never even been to Australia, and it shows.
Quite the whinging. Do you pronounce every foreign name the same as those who live there? Love to hear you pronounce some Welsh towns correctly, even English towns and counties we pronounce different to the British.
I would say it’s Mack warry rather than werry
The voice over is A.I.
i know right i wanted to punch the narrator lol, is that wrong lol
They don't have to ravel. They have to stop gazing at their own navels for five minutes. "Macquarie" was teh most egregious. That name is all over the world.
The fake AI American accent is a blight on the English language. They need to learn how to say place names. Listening to that commentary made my head hurt. It drove me nuts.
Horseshit AI
maquiry. I wanted to pull my ears off.
Lake Eyre is pronounced like air.
Funny story. Apparently during world war 2 the Japanese thought about invading the west coast because of it's low population and lack of defences. Seeing all the 'lakes' on the maps of the time they thought they could use local water for supplies. The 'lakes' are all salt pans which only fill (with brackish salty water) about every ten years.
@@EmbraceThePing he’s Scottish mate, they still think there’s a dinosaur living in the water !!!!
@@TBird89 eeerrm my fathers father was a Scot. My father therefore was only scottish and I'm an aussie. You're a bit cheeky considering Oz is the land of hoop snakes and drop bears me ol' china. ;)
Where is Macree Island? I don't like Canberra.. But Canbear-raa really.!!!
Norfolk Island has not been self governing for nearly 10 years. The Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly was abolished on 1 July 2015 and replaced with the Australian Federal Government in Canberra maintaining authority on the island through an Administrator. This was due to the island almost going bankrupt.
What a shame
Those lakes in South Australia are mostly always dry...and in the middle of desert area....so no "resorts". Lake Ayre is pronounced "Lake Air"
It's also spelled "Eyre".
@@heatherharvey3129 Geez, I'm getting old and stupid.... of course it is.
Every so often there is big rains in Queensland, the water that doesn’t travel east into the Pacific Ocean, then travels south-west over many many months and makes its way down to lake eyre. I remember in the late 1980s/1990 my friend travelling to England where she was asked to confirm the news reports that the body of water making its way through the outback was larger in area than England (yes it was). As it came to various towns it caused major flooding. My husband went from Sydney to Nyngan with the bushfire brigade to do flood relief after the entire outback town was engulfed by flood waters.
This should be changed to " REACTION TO 20 PLACES GETTING THEIR NAME COCKED UP"
😂😂
Reading the below posts, it once again shows the inaccuracies of these videos when done by non Australians, so no point watching.
Opening dialogue….. America the self proclaimed centre of the world
Switzerland is a small country, we have real mountains, beautiful ones. I’ve been skiing in Australia, but Swiss mountains are on another level.
Ours are just termite mounds compared to the Swiss Alps.
Agree. … From an Aussie. 🎉
@@etiennejulius1179 I lived in Sydney for quite a few years, loved the beach. Loved the Northern Territory.
@@FromTheGong Are you from Wollongong? I used to live in Engadine, the Sutherland Shire, next to the Royal National Park.
@@codeblue9004 East Corrimal beach, northern suburbs.
Those mispronunciations... Especially Melbourne... Are driving me nuts
Isn't it pronounced, Melborn. I think your wrong.
Mispronunciation is often indicative of AI.
@@jayr4857Melb'n
Australians pronounce it Melbin
@jamesi9909 I know, it's my home.
Actually Australia receives snow over a much larger area than Switzerland. So the claim is actually true.
Mispronounced Macquarie Island, it's 'Mah-quarry' and not 'Maccary'.
So many mispronunciations - Murray, Canberra, Melbourne. Eyre (pronounce Air), Antipodes (An-tip-o-dees) and more.
Lake Eyre is pronounced "Lake AIR}
Who gives a fuck how people who have accents pronounce place names. It really is fucking strange how people get so worked up about it.
Who gives a rats, bet you're not so perfect either.
Gotta laugh that there is a "Translate to English" link below your post.🤣
@@krystalryan9174 That’s because I am quoting the narrator’s errors. Get it? Thank you for proving my point.
The first thing we learn is in item 1. Anyone who says "ma-ka-ree island" didn't care enough to do the most basic homework and nothing they say can be trusted.
We have the oldest ski club in the world too for snow skiing. Another fun fact.
Let’s put this silly “Australia gets more snow than Switzerland” myth to bed 🤣 The Australian Alps are half the size in area and half the height of the Swiss Alps. According to Weatherzone Australia the bottom line is “we don't have anything even remotely close to the amount of snow that would cover the Swiss Alps”. This myth started in an inaccurate 1950s British doco and was perpetuated when NSW Premier Chris Minns said on social media that we have more snow than the Swiss Alps. There is ZERO truth in it. Please people do your research and stop spreading this amongst reaction channels!!
I'm not sure this AI was listening to Chris Minns 😆The problem is more that its proliferation is in semi-reputable sources like BBC Earth.
@@Bellas1717 AI’s simply take information from online sources and as the myth has spread across the internet, it’s a given that an AI will find untruths. I’m not suggesting anyone got it directly from Chris Minns, I said he was one of the reasons the myth perpetuated. It’s just laughable how it got out of control 😂
Kappy keeping the internet accurate ❤😂
I've been bashing my head against the wall on this myth for years. It keeps being stated as fact.
@@Dr_KAP Did you miss my laugh emoji?
Some interesting points. 53 yo Australian and I've never heard of half of them. The snow comparison with Switzerland was an eye opener. I currently live in the ACT and it's chilly. 12 degrees C maximum, -2 last night.
We should do a fun facts about Australia ourselves! We will get the facts right and the pronunciations correct 😊
Hello from the Snowy Mtns,
That video was a waste of time and full of images and videos that had nothing to do with the subject and/or Australia.
Lake Eyre is massive, more like an inland sea, it is however, almost always a dry salt bed, think Bonneville Salt Flats and you'll get the idea. Every few years, when the rains in Queensland are particularly heavy, the lake will fill and the change in local wildlife is immediate and quite impressive.
I can’t think of any lakes in Australia that could be said to have a resort, with so many beaches surrounding the country there is really not a need for it. Some would have B&Bs or motels or caravan parks but nothing like a resort. Lake Eyre is usually dry, it gets some water every three or four years on average bit it only fills up a few times per century. When it is dry it is a vast salt flat. Englishman Donald Campbell set his world land speed record there in 1964.
I only learned this year when visiting Corrigin (WA) -235 km inland from Perth, that there is a Lake Yealing that is a permanent lake, from which a town has grown. I think it is about 50 km from Corrigin, whilst it might be on the tourist places to visit, it would not be considered a holiday resort even by the broadest of definitions.
I think Donald Campbell also set a Water land speed record on a Lake Dumbleyung, in WA's South-West. Maybe it was also about 1964. There are many people out there, whether they climb up, abseil down, drive/ride/fly fast cars/bikes/planes/wingsuits etc, who have a lot more intestinal fortitude ('guts and determination') than I have. It seemed he, Campbell, felt compelled to follow his father's (Malcolm Campbell) legacy.
I was born in Mt Gambier Sth Aus near a volcano crater that holds the blue lake, its mineral rich waters shine a beautiful blue. There used to be a stratregically place swing that would give the illsuion of having no ground under you when you were swinging on it.
Lake Macquarie, in my area! Loads of activities you can do in it. It's the 1st, or 2nd biggest natural lake in Australia.
I'm overtlooking the tweed river right now. Not the border. All in NSW. The ranges are.
Me too!
Lake Eildon is a great lake to look at in Victoria. Beautiful lake and history behind it
The big lakes in South Australia are ephemeral. There are therefore no permanent tourist facilities on their shores. When full, lake Eyre (aboriginal name; Kati Thanda) is used by some for boating.
I've been to Cameron Corner as a girl ( in the '60's or 70's) when my Dad used to take us camping in the outback twice a year in search of art subjects
Number 22, in the fresh water rivers on the north side of the country have rare fresh water animals. Fresh water crocodiles and fresh water sawfish, and Barramundi that change from fresh to salt water and back again.
I did my time in the services during the Vietnam conflict and it was always worth a beer bet with a yank serviceman when it was pointed out that we had a cattle station bigger than the state of Texas. Got many a free drink out of that one. Another large cattle station was near Esperance in The state of Western Australia and this was owned by Art Linklater of the early television show called "People are Funny" Late 60's early 70's
The lakes in the middle of the continent are usually dry with a heavy salt content. Lake Eyre was the science fo Sir Donald Campbell attempt on the land speed record with a 4 wheeled vehicle.
LOVE HOW YOU LOVE AND IS FASCINATED ABOUT AUSTRALIA ❤
Lake Eyre is pronounce Lake Air, hence ironically the lake is just that no water in long periods of time. The lake is name after Edward John Eyre early explorer and governor
They missed the most interesting messed up border!
An error in the border between SA and Victoria meant that there's a border between SA and Victoria along the Murray with nothing stating where the border goes on that section (or even if it should be in NSW, if all the Murray at the northern border of Victoria should be in NSW). I'm eagerly awaiting someone to break a state law on the river in that section so that someone can try to work out which jurisdiction they're in.
As an Australian I'm not sure he pronounced any of our place or town Names correctly bar a couple
All The lakes in central south Australia are dry salt lakes, except when there's heavy rain in Queensland and south Australia
A pity the narrator didn't take time to learn correct pronunciation.
"Mackory" Island... 🤭🤭
By land area, Australia is around the same size as the contiguous USA. Also, we may have more snow, but practically have no mountains by world standards. We are the flattest continent as well the most arid. Victoria will soon become the richest gold mining region of the earth. Due to meteorite impacts and vulcanism.
God the pronunciation of place names haha. As someone that comes from a town with Macquarie in the name that was hard to bear.
I'm from Australia and have lived in the Outback, the lakes fill up sometimes, maybe every 10 years, not very deep, only a couple of feet.
Lot of people travel the country in 4wd trucks with caravans. We call them the Grey Nomads. I live in a house, no more caravans for me, I would rather have a garden, here in Broken Hill.
The dingo fence has a stark difference from one side to the other. The side with dingoes has more vegetation and ground cover because the dingoes keep the kangaroo population down.
And a more diverse range of smaller native animals long since wiped out by foxes and cats on the side with continuous eradication of native Dingoes. Guess sheep are more important but.
Thanks again CZcams for not showing my reply.
The mispronounciation of Macquarie is unbelievable and typical of Americans. In fact there was not one name that he got right. Eyre is pronounced "air". Fraser is not Frasier. Antipodes is an-TIP-odd-EES. Can't remember the others. Lake Eyre is teh habitat of many waterfowl when there is water there. Every few years with heavy rain it fills up and water birds - including pelicans, come to nest there. Most of the time it's salt flats, which look spectacular reflecting the sunlight.
Regarding lakes, people from Melbourne often go to Lake Eildon for holidays.
Coolangatta/Tweed heads.
It’s called Twin Towns.
This is TOO painful... MACK-A-REE Island FFS. @3:07, The MU-RAY River, gave it away.
I live in northern SA. It's pronounced Lake Air. It's desert and scrub mainly from my backdoor to the Northern Territory, with those lakes being very large dry salt lakes, until it floods.
I was vaguely aware of large Pastoral stations in your part of Australia, but I never really appreciated nor understood the size until, maybe a decade ago or so, the Anna Plains Station came up for sale (was it part of the Kidman empire linking South Australian properties through to the NT and maybe the Kimberley or Qld?). It must have been exciting last year when the flood waters upstream from Qld found their way to Lake Eyre. People reported that both fish and birdlife seemingly appeared out of thin air in vast numbers. I imagine also in these non-flood times, during summer, life can be very difficult with 50oC temperatures.
I never realised until earlier this year when visiting Corrigin (WA) that there is a town , Yealering, that is the only town in inland WA that is next to a permanent lake, Lake Yealering, and it is only 250 kms from Perth.
23, the land in the south of West Australia is the oldest landmass, the surface of the earth there is over 4 billion years old.
For those that say why not live in the desert, many do, and put up with poisonous snakes, 7 year and sometimes longer droughts, bush fires, floods, artesian water causing excess salt on the land. Are the deserts like that in your country? It takes a special knowledge set, shops who transport food cheaply, and endurance to do it. You have to have a good job, with reason to try. Have you ever heard of shifting black soil plains, some of our towns are built on them, and it takes a different architectural style, to keep your house together.
Melbourne was in fact the capital for many years .
I live in Ararat Victoria Australia. Not far from the Grampians National Park Mountains. It also has a reservoir dam Lake Bellfeild in the middle of it. Years ago I was working in Melbourne and had a great Italian mate. One year I invited him and his Scottish Brother inlaw to come up and see it. When we got there it was a dark stormy day with mist and rain across the lake. I apologise and say it looks good on a sunny day. I looked at my mates brother in law and there was tears flowing down his cheeks. He said nah me lad I’m home by the lock in Scotland just beautiful
note the 2nd 3 state cnr shown had queensland on it
SNAP! We both said Macquarie @ the same time - DEAR GOD make it stop!
Lake Eyre is pronounced as Lake Air!
another fact that most people don't seem to know is Australia is on the move, as in its actually moving, its moving about 70mm per year in a north easterly direction.
Canberra was granted self governance by the federal Labor govt because as public servants would always vote Labor, Labor's federal hegemony was thought to be guaranteed.
I have been to Cameron Corner twice and Poeple Corner once. There is a 3rd Corner but haven't been there it's called Haddon corner. I just found out there is a fourth corner and that is MacCabe. Been to Lake Eyre before there and water in it at the time as there had been quite a bit a rain at the time. Cameron Corner is where part of the dingo fence is and have to threw it to get to Cameron Corner.
did you know 448 million years ago an asteroid , comet hit Victoria and left a 30 mile crater. turning it into a gold and diamond mind... at the same time it would have killed every thing on earth.... ha ha
Interesting - but the multiple mispronunciations are cringe-worthy.
Who cares how someone foreign pronounces what most Aussies probably can't pronounce correctly either. Get over it.
@@FromTheGongmost people care. It shows a lack of respect towards Australia
@@SnowyRVulpix That shows a lack of respect and complete ignorance of anyone not from Australia.
@@FromTheGong In your opinion. It's a video purporting to explain Australian geography. That carries a responsibility to use correct pronunciation of place names. That responsibility is entirely absent from the situations you inaccurately continue to put forward as equivalents.
I would expect the host who is Scottish to at least correct the Scottish named places. What is it with Americans?
It would take me ages to correct all the mispronunciations and minor to large errors, but it's not as if this is the National Geographic Channel. Someone spliced images and video from all over the web, not all of it of Australia. But, since this is a reaction video, I'm not going to be my nitpicking professional self (as an editor, fact-checker, and pronunciation clarifier). And, yes, Ayre is pronounced "air", just as that huge rock in the middle (Ayres Rock) was, before it became Uluru.
Australian English, the last hurdle of AI. WTF is "Jervus Bay"?
Cameron Corner (NSW, QLD, SA) Yes, Hadden Corner (QLD, SA) Yes, Poepple Corner (SA, NT, QLD) Yes, Surveyor Generals Corner(s) (NT ,WA) and the other (NT, WA, SA) MacCabe Corner (floated over it) its in the middle of the river
Mate, am i smoking too much or is this a new Ch. you've made?
I have been to cameron corner were 3 states join! awesome desert surroundings!
The channel missed a whole lot about our volcanic past. The Ballarat (and many other Victorian) gold rushes have a lot to thank for the volcanoes, and there is potential for one more eruption. Mt Connor and wave rock in the Norther Territory were both formed by wind. Mt Connor is an example of a huge eddy of wind in our atmosphere in the past (this of they Red Eye of Jupiter for an idea of how big it was). The many meteor craters a are out there. Some are so old they have almost completely worn away, and require a satellite to identify, but the Wilpena Pound is SA is probably the largest and most famous.
"MAC QUArry", MURRAY river, Lake "air" got it ?
although land locked act has a sea beach
Lake Ainesworth in NSW is a spring fed fresh water coloured brown by tea tree tannins. It exists some 20 to 39 metres from the ocean. No motorised boats allowed. It is a recreational lake.
I used to live a couple houses down from lake ainesworth. Sun rise and sunsets would look amazing shining on the lake with all the tannins in the water. Miss my time in Lennox Head
@MSTV I love the way the guy in the video says "Macquarie". He said "Mackery" instead "Merqwory". "Mackery" sounds close to "Mackerel" to me. You must've been somewhat annoyed with the way he mispronounces a Scottish last name, don't you, Mat Salleh TV? What do you think?
Been to Cameron and poppells corner.
Its pronounced lake 'air' eyre. And does indeed have a yaught club. The clubs tourism is in trouble because of the state governments 'heritage' views.
more skiable snow in season
I’m wearing new socks.
Sorry about some of these commenter. Keep up the vids they're good.
This guy may have broken some sort of record for mispronunciation! Most of the place names and a few words as well.
Snow? Not for much longer.
Lake Lefroy best landsailing venue in the world
Take a look at the border bewteen SA, Vic, and NSW. Looks straight, but isn't. MacCabe Corner is in the middle of the Murray River.
I'm Australian and have never heard of "mackery" island...
holy shit... these pronunciations man... most people would at least just pronounce them how they're spelled if they aren't gonna go look it up first... this narrator's cooked 😬
holy fucking shitballs... number 5 "the 3 corners where WA, SA and NT meet" but the picture clearly says "Queensland" and WA isn't on it
Yes . Australia have best snow in the world . We know that
The Australian Alps having more snow cover than the Swiss Alps is an oft repeated myth. It is just not true.
Much of Australia is in the southern hemisphere? All of Australia.
Eyre is pronounced like the word AIR.
The American pronounced a lot of things wrong, another was the Murray River, I actually live on a Murray River town, other places not pronounced correctly was Melbourne, Brisbane, and Fraser Island. It does my head in. 🤦♀️
YOU SHOULD WATCH THE BASED ON TRUE EVENTS MOVIE " THE RABBIT PROOF FENCE " BUT BE WARNED IT'S VERY SAD SO GET YOUR TISSUES READY
lake eyre is pronounced lake air.
Also did you know that new Zealand was once part of Australia New South Wales until they was able to form a country.
Australia as a country didn't exist at the time, NSW was an individual colony. New Zealand was administered as part of NSW, but not part of Australia.
Really you have to remember that Australia is as big as America, I do wish the the names were pronounced better , of course we have everything that other countries have including mountains , I can imagine people jumping on us if we Aussie kept doing their names wrong ,
They have pulled the dingo fence down now, and replaced it with three strands of barbed wire 👍
They've obviously done a fair bit of research, so why not fit a little bit more effort into finding out to pronounce unfamiliar place names and words? Also, 'This cattle is living the good life'...? Ignoring the grammatical error (which I'm going to assume wasn't intentional), they explained in the same video how the centre of Australia (including that large cattle station) is very dry and mostly desert. Did they 'forget' that fact just so they could use the meme? The minimal vegetation means that cattle stations have to be huge to support enough cattle to make a reasonable profit. It's not an easy life for a cow or a human.
Eyre is said air
Canberra is nowhere near halfway between melbourne & sydney...
Lake Erie has and always will be firmly in the United states or canada, we never had one of those. Where is the I in Eyre, buzz, nowhere.
OMG. So many mispronunciations in so little time! And that map of the political divisions of Antarctica!
This must be a skit by Stephen Colbert, surely?
Crikey, i didn't know that Maq, Mack er whatever it's name is. I MUST listen to this expert more often. I love to be told more about the Country where i was born by a ignoramus.
Macquarie is pronounced Mcquarry, like a Scottish quarry.
Lake Eyre is pronounced Lake Air
As an Aussie the pronunciation is terrible. That said, the naming of more than half the country is the laziest in history - South Australia, Western Australia & the Northern Territory!
I do not think I have ever watched a video with more pronunciation mistakes. One would have to think that it was either deliberate or the presenter was a moron. Maybe because he was an American it could have been both.
One interesting border fact not mentioned is that while Australia might be considered a very remote land, the shortest sea distance between PNG land and Australian land is only a few nautical miles and can easily be crossed by a small dinghy or tribal canoe.
As for lakes in the desert, the Murchison region of Western Australia has many named lakes that are also mostly dry and salt encrusted except for when massive rain periods occur which could be up to decades apart. Even when full these lakes rarely hold water for more than a few months due to the extreme evaporation rates and most lakes only hold up to a maximum of one to two metres in depth. Thus even when these lakes rarely hold water that water stays reddish brown due to the suspended silt particles, is generally undrinkable and even dangerous to approach as the water recedes leaving thick mud that soon dries to salty dust. Even those few lakes that may have a recognisable (often dry) natural water channel inlet as a feature, very few have any outlet channel.
What annoys me is the people who put these type of videos together don't make the effort to learn the correct pronunication of place names.
Indeed.
It's pronounced Lake Air.