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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The ironic thing is a lot of those refugees who made it to Australia ended up in Melbourne, and Sydney, not QLD

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nothing in Queensland on the map. NT and SA.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

looked like QLD on my tiny phone screen. grabs glasses ahh fuck me I was looking at the number, not the blocks.

Christ, can you imagine fleeing the holocaust only to end up in darwin when the Japanese start bombing.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago

Looking closer and getting better at Aus geography, it's part of the Kimberley in the north-east of WA, so still a few hundred km west of Darwin.

Size 163000 square miles, about 3.5x what this guy was asking for and about 20x modern day Israel.

Population (now) 32,000.