Getting your head around Oz

It can be difficult to understand how large Australia is and how far apart all the famous places are. I've dug up a few maps and some information to make it easier. This first map shows our position on the planet. The top of Australia is not far from equator, so the Northern parts of Australia have a rainy season and dry season, while the Southern part has temperate seasons, although mild (about like Arkansas) It does snow in the Southern mountains and in Tasmania, there are even ski resorts near Sydney.


This shows the detail on the climate. Brisbane is in the Subtropical Zone.

 

Here's a good one! 
As you can see, Brisbane is about where Virginia Beach is,  Sydney is in N. Florida, And Perth is about where Tijuana is. The famous red rock, Uluru, is near Denver, and the Great Barrier Reef would start around Cleveland and go up to Ontario. Everything from L.A. to Chicago would be desert or near-desert, and the Great Lakes region along with Southern Canada would be tropical. There would be some rainforests across Canada and down the Eastern coast. With more than 8 thousand islands all the way around.

The U.S. has about 300 million people and AU has about 22 million. We only have 5 cities with a population over  a million and 25% of the people immigrated here from somewhere else. Indigenous people are only 2.2% of the population (It's much more common to see Maori people living in or visiting in Brisbane than indigenous Australians).