Comments by "Teagirl009" (@Teagirl009) on "American Reacts to Australia and New Zealand COMAPRED" video.
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Most geographers will tell you, Australia is technically not an island, it is a continent. Or continental land mass. The world largest Island is Greenland. People that call it an island may not understand the criteria for a continent. An island is a land mass that's smaller than a continent. Yes technically the continental landmass is surrounded by water but Australia cannot be both an island and continent. It's a continent and a country.
Some of the reasons or criteria whi it's a continent;
Australia sits on it's own tectonic plate, Greenland for example shares tectonic plate with north America.
Australia has Indigenous bio life (flora and fauna, plants and animals that can only be found in Australia).
There's also an anthropological distinction that is part of why Australia is considered as one of the 7 continents, The Indigenous people of Australia. They belong to a race that is contained to continental Australia and the surrounding islands.
And lastly, it's too damn big to be an island 😜
Re Australia Vs New Zealand.
Honestly, both countries are naturally beautiful and have a lot of offer. There's many similarities in the culture/people/lifestyle, many shared slang terms, very similar sense of humour, both being Australasian. There's of course many differences that make the people and places uniquely Australian or New Zealand too.
We might take the piss out of each other at times but it's all light hearted and genuinely we're mates and would be there for each other in times of need.
I got nothing but love for Our Kiwi friends accross the ditch. :)
Under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement , Australian and New Zealand citizens are able to enter each others countries to visit, live and work pretty easily.
A lot of kiwis live in Australia. About 15% of their population. I think they make up our top tourists And amongst the top countries that migrate to Australia. (Along with India, China and the UK).
And obviously a lot of Aussies visit the beautiful Aotearoa/New Zealand. There are many blended Oz/Kiwi households in Australia.
With the flights being only about 3 hours from most of the east coast to Auckland, and fairly cheap...makes it very easy to live and work and visit between countries.
Mate, I think you're gonna need about 6 weeks to decently do a good chunk of Oz/NZ. 😆
Tourism Australia need to sponsor you. Or at least a couple of the state Tourism boards.
Come on Tourism NSW, Tourism NT, Tourism Tasmania etc !
Don't come in winter though. Come in spring or the last month of summer or early Autumn. You wanna make the most of some of our beautiful beaches and beach weather.
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