Perth alone on a coast: why Western Australia stays so empty
Geoff's look at a state the size of western Europe passed a million views in five days, while Svalbard followed on Thursday.
Geography By GeoffStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Why Almost NOBODY Lives On Australia's West Coast
A million, in five days. "Why Almost NOBODY Lives On Australia's West Coast" went up on Tuesday and passed that mark before the week was out, still drawing hundreds of thousands of views a day. For a channel whose usual daily total sits a good way below that single video's pace, it is the kind of upload that lifts everything around it: the whole channel is running at nearly twice its normal clip.
The question is a fair one. Western Australia covers roughly a third of the continent, about the size of western Europe, and its coast has one major city, Perth. Geoff works through the outback, the ancient, worn-out land underneath it and what that means for growth. The comments have become a seminar of their own. West Australians keep pointing out that Albany, on the south coast, was settled a few years before the Swan River Colony, and many bring up the iron ore pouring out of the Pilbara through Port Hedland, which they feel deserved more than a passing mention. Others simply enjoy seeing home from the outside.
Thursday's upload went much farther north. "Inside Earth's Most Important (And Isolated) Archipelago" is Svalbard, in the channel's familiar fifteen-facts format: polar night, a Cold War chapter, coal mines and the seed vault built to outlast disaster. It opened solidly, and the Drake Passage episode from mid-September keeps ticking along behind both.
Among the explainer and education channels nearest its size, only hoser added more views this week.
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What viewers say
Great to see a video on my home from an outside perspective.
My wife went to a conference in Texas once, we found it amusing that she was asked how many times Western Australia would fit inside Texas.@petercox1925See it on YouTubeFYI - The Nullarbor Plain literally means "no trees" (null arbor). There are many who think the name is Aboriginal.
@neskireSee it on YouTubeThe western desert lives and breathes in 45 degrees!
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The videos drawing views on Geography By Geoff right now
- Channel
- Geography By Geoff
- Subscribers
- 1,110,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,743,593
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,152,924
- Views on its first day
- 179,812
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The Nullarbor Plain, which stretches across southern Australia, takes its name from Latin meaning what?
Nullarbor comes from the Latin nullus arbor, 'no tree', describing the treeless limestone plain.
