australia map
there are some oddities to the australia map, these comments based on the 1914 scenario
there shouldn't be any people pretty much in oodnadatta or nullabor or any (real life) desert area, much less factories. the only heavily populated areas in australia, then and now, are SW australia (the well watered area south of perth), and the area SE of a line drawn from adelaide to mildura to brisbane
also, australia, even then, was a heavily urbanised country. most of the population lived in sydney, melbourne, brisbane, perth, adelaide. until well after 1920, canberra did not exist except as an obscure sheep station.
why is darwin called arnhem land? every area in europe and the ROTW is named after a city, an exception seems to have been made for darwin! arnhem land is only a small part of the area so labelled. if it has to have a regional name, 'Top End' is closer to the mark
new guinea was an australian protectorate/territory in 1914, not a british one (it was originally occupied by the colony of queensland - 1870s-80s or there abouts - in response to the germans sniffing around the area)
the aboriginal population in 1914, especially in the southeast, is greatly overestimated at slightly less than 10%. even nowadays after a period of rapid growth, the aboriginal population of australia is only 2%. the absolute low point of aboriginal numbers was in the 1930s when white australians assumed that aboriginal people would die out completely (with the help of assimilationist policies). there were only 30,000-40,000 aboriginal people in the 1930s-40s period. from the aboriginal viewpoint, as representatives of a repressive state, australian census takers were avoided, but it is still unlikely that their population would have exceeded 100,000 in the first half of the 20thC. which is less than 2% of the 5.1m population of australia in 1914 given in 'Victoria'.
there are some oddities to the australia map, these comments based on the 1914 scenario
there shouldn't be any people pretty much in oodnadatta or nullabor or any (real life) desert area, much less factories. the only heavily populated areas in australia, then and now, are SW australia (the well watered area south of perth), and the area SE of a line drawn from adelaide to mildura to brisbane
also, australia, even then, was a heavily urbanised country. most of the population lived in sydney, melbourne, brisbane, perth, adelaide. until well after 1920, canberra did not exist except as an obscure sheep station.
why is darwin called arnhem land? every area in europe and the ROTW is named after a city, an exception seems to have been made for darwin! arnhem land is only a small part of the area so labelled. if it has to have a regional name, 'Top End' is closer to the mark
new guinea was an australian protectorate/territory in 1914, not a british one (it was originally occupied by the colony of queensland - 1870s-80s or there abouts - in response to the germans sniffing around the area)
the aboriginal population in 1914, especially in the southeast, is greatly overestimated at slightly less than 10%. even nowadays after a period of rapid growth, the aboriginal population of australia is only 2%. the absolute low point of aboriginal numbers was in the 1930s when white australians assumed that aboriginal people would die out completely (with the help of assimilationist policies). there were only 30,000-40,000 aboriginal people in the 1930s-40s period. from the aboriginal viewpoint, as representatives of a repressive state, australian census takers were avoided, but it is still unlikely that their population would have exceeded 100,000 in the first half of the 20thC. which is less than 2% of the 5.1m population of australia in 1914 given in 'Victoria'.