Comments by "Teagirl009" (@Teagirl009) on "American Reacts to Top FACTS You Didn't Know About the Southern Hemisphere.." video.

Thanks Ian 🙂. Even as a southern hemispherian, I learned a few things too! Re the air being a lot cleaner in the southern hemisphere. It's not just because of more oceans, less populated, less air traffic etc. There's apparently a "chemical belt" (so named in articles not by me!) that scientists discovered, wrapped around the earths equator, keeping the polluted atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere separate from the relatively pristine south. Parts of Tasmania has the purest air in the world. I definitely noticed the difference in air quality and pollution while travelling to the northern hemisphere. And the night skies down here are incredible. Less light and chemical pollution, so Clearer... so many stars. The night skies in the centre/outback are special. Also just in terms of cleanliness in a lot of Northern hemisphere cities I visted, were not as clean as in Australia. But that may be Australia Vs the countries/cities I visted rather than strictly a North Vs South. Surprised they didn't mention the opposing seasons but perhaps they thought it too obvious. Sadly it's not and even recently saw so many people onlinee who were shocked that it's winter here🙃.
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So true. In this day and age there's zero excuse to be ignorant about the opposing seasons. We learned about those in primary school before the age of 10. Recently I saw Bindi Irwin post some pics of her family in Tassie in the snow fields. 98% of the northern hemisphere responses were shocked that it was snowing there in "summer". Some even thought it was a bizarre summer snow from climate change, others were stunned it was winter here and almost none knew it even snowed in Australia. Some really do live in an NH bubble😆
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Definitely a great channel. They popped up reccomended on my YT. I found them charming, positive and engaging. I had to keep watching their content. I love that they didn't just do the the cities.
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Funnily enough that song wasn't written about mainland Australia. It's not about Australia being an "island". Kind of the opposite. It was written about an Indigenous man who moved to Alice springs from his Island home of Elchos island of the coast of Arnhem land. It was covered in the 90s by Christine Anu who related it to her own experience of being from the Torres strait islands. Australia is firstly a continent which why geography world disqualifies it from island or largest island status.
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I wasn't taught that it was the largest island. I was taught that it was a continent (smallest) which is also a country and an island. The widley accepted geographic definition of an Island is a "land mass surrounded but water that is *smaller* than a continent." Australia is already one of the world continents, so it is disqualified from being titled the largest Island. (Greenland shares tectonic plate with north America so therefore is not a continent. Australia Lisa on its own tectonic plate.). It's just to keep clear lines with the continent Vs Island definitions. That's all. Otherwise some might possibly call Africa an Island too. (I'm not saying it is an Island... but I've seen this debated by some). I mean it's surround by water, technically I guess. Or Antarctica.
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Totally agree
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@Gordon_L Just to advise I didn't come up with that term, chemical belt was the term some coined in some articles I've read. Maybe it's a nickname among some scientists. 🤷
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@Vengir I didn't say it was an island... I said if people are just saying Australia is an island simply because itsa land mass surrounded by water...then some may consider Africa that. I've certainly seen that debated even by Geography nerds. And then there's Antarctica. In any case Australia is already a continent, so it doesn't qualify as largest island. Personally Im not bothered by it lol. Let Greenland have the title. They miss out being their own continent.
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