A World Without Australia

How different could the world have been without Australia? I t was "discovered" by the Britsh somewhere in the post-America Revolution- 1800 Area, how much would be different?
 
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What.

So your line of thinking is, "if Britain doesn't discover Australia in the XYZ century, Australia will never exist?"

No. Just no.

The Dutch discovered it considerably earlier. 1606 or something like that. If Britain doesn't come into it, which is doubtful in itself, the Netherlands or France likely will.
 
Not what I ment

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What.

So your line of thinking is, "if Britain doesn't discover Australia in the XYZ century, Australia will never exist?"

No. Just no.

The Dutch discovered it considerably earlier. 1606 or something like that. If Britain doesn't come into it, which is doubtful in itself, the Netherlands or France likely will.

i mean if Australi is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean or just never was created.
 
Just turn Australia into a desert. oh wait, it is.
I don't thik the world would change much. but we'd have less cool animals
 
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Just turn Australia into a desert. oh wait, it is.
I don't thik the world would change much. but we'd have less cool animals

what if Australia and Antartica are still one land mass and form a huge continent in te Pacific and possibly projecting into the Antartic Ocean?
 
what if Australia and Antartica are still one land mass and form a huge continent in te Pacific and possibly projecting into the Antartic Ocean?

I believe this belongs in the ASB thread. Change to the continents is always a little implausible with human history involved, because it tends to butterfly away all of humanity just because of all the world changes.
 
what if Australia and Antartica are still one land mass and form a huge continent in te Pacific and possibly projecting into the Antartic Ocean?

I believe that it's been about 80 million years since Australia and Antarctica were one. The two still being connected is pretty much ASBish.
 
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Well, to answer your queries one by one, Randomperson (I'm assuming that for all of them you want ASBs to keep humans existing/historical events mostly the same):

No Australia: Messes up the ocean currents immensely, makes a whole lotta extra sea.

Australia in the Pacific: The continental plate of Australia will subduct the Pacific plate, meaning that the continent will experience a lot more volcanic activity. This will result in a much more fertile Australia. The first human farmers to land here are going to find a bonanza of good farmland; it's unlikely that humans will reach this continent until after a diverhistorical equivalent of the Polynesian expansion.

Australia and Antarctica linked: I'm not an expert, but I believe that the area of Antarctica connected to Australia will be much warmer than OTL, due to the warm(er) ocean currents striking the land mass rather than bypassing it. Ultimately, this means that Antarctica may have some tundra rather than just rocky coastline, which could conceivably be the home of some very interesting arctic marsupials and monotremes-potentially something like the species out of the Green Antarctica timeline, though if you want more realism probably not as varied species, just marsupial and monotreme equivalents of Caribou, arctic hare, lemmings, arctic foxes, and arctic wolves (which will probably be made extinct by dogs). Assuming similar human settlement to OTL, you could see some arctic hunter-gatherer societies similar to the Inuit or the Thule. These societies, with their isolation and residence on land that is useless for farming would have a very good chance of surviving ATL's version of European contact and settlement.
 
Are you talking about the Commonwealth of Australia? The continent of Australia? Or both?

If it's the latter, than global weather patterns could be greatly altered.
 
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Its never going to not be found. There aren't going to be astronauts on the moon that turn to look at the Earth, see a totally random, unknown landmass in the middle of the Pacific, and make an unexpected report to mission control in Lancashire.
 
.......No just no without Australia the world would just implode. Why? Because we are quite simply just that awesome :D
 
im in favour of just removing australia from the face of the world...
i understand that there would be issues with the climate change, ocean currents etc.
but it would get rid of those convict descendant aussies and their desert island.
(Hi aussies out there, much love from across the tassie sea).:D
 
If there was no Australia the Kiwis would have nowhere to go to get on the dole or buy a dairy farm. :)
 
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.......No just no without Australia the world would just implode. Why? Because we are quite simply just that awesome :D

australia would be a pretty sweet world superpower, i mean, imagine Australia as a Pacific Empire and with nukes, that would be a cool timeline. :p
 
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waht if australia gets hit be a meteor and has a huge lake in the center or becomes a group of large islands?
 
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