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I'd like to have your help for a few plausibility checks about a completely different colonization of Australia.
First of all, I'm fleshing out this scenario by Thande, all credit goes to him.

So, are the following plausible:
  • The site of OTL Perth never becomes important, but instead, Albany [ITTL: Nouvelle Nantes] grows to be Western [TTL: French] Australia's largest city, with over 1 million inhabitants.
  • There's still a settlement near OTL's Adelaide, on Lefevre Peninsula (TTL: Port Larcier), a medium-sized regional centre which benefited mainly from being isolated from the rest of French Australia by hundreds of kilometres of desert (somewhat analogous to OTL's Cairns).
  • Port Phillip Bay is surrounded by large conurbation just as IOTL, Willemshaven, capital of New Holland.
  • There's no Sydney ; New Holland's largest Pacific city is on Jervis Bay.
  • There is still a large city in Moreton Bay, but not on the same spot as OTL's Brisbane.
I await your comments eagerly.
If all goes well, there'll be a map about this someday;)
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