Driving, Driving and More Driving In no other situation do you run into the vastness of Australia like you do when you have to get from point A to point B in a mostly unpopulated section of the country. While Australia is the 6th largest country in the world for land mass, behind such countries as Canada. Russia, the US and China, few of these countries are as sparsely populated as Australia. This fact makes the country seem much larger as you travel. While in the US, you may have to drive 11 hours to get from Richmond, VA to Boston, MA you never hit a stretch of road that is far from civilization. However, in Australia, there are vast distances between major destinations everywhere except the south east part of the country around Sydney, Melbourne
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