As a native Californian, I tend to view most places as being somewhat small and quaint. Yes, I realize this is insane, and potentially insulting, but I can't help it. My state is gargantuan, and it's messed up all my ideas about scale. Well, Australia is a continental FUCK YOU to this tendency, being as it is, I don't know, A CONTINENT, and is thus FUCKING ENORMOUS. Australia could eat California as a nice snack with some tea and scones and maybe a side order of Greenland. Australia is AWESOME.)
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2010-10-26 12:12 am (UTC)I come from the biggest state in Australia, which is unimaginatively named "Western Australia". At school they taught us that it could fit Texas inside it five times over. I suspect it could swallow Texas, California, and Alaska.
My sense of distance is seriously screwed up.
Everywhere in the world seems pretty tiny to me, except for maybe Mongolia.
In other news, fairy penguins are seriously adorable.