GEO 221 Lecture 10: GEO 221 W10
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Dry interior contains many types of minerals (coal, gems, cooper, iron, etc. ) Only 6% of land is good for farming. The first people were the aborigines: came to southeast asia 40,000 years ago. 300,000 aborigines lived in australia when europeans came in 1700s. British settled australia as a prison colony: first settlement was sydney (1788, by 1830, 60,000 prisoners were sent there. Population made up of aborigines, people that were sent there as prisoners, people who came there to farm, people that came because of the natural resources (gold, minerals, etc. ) Aborigines forced off land, die from diseases europeans brought. 92% of people are of british/european ancestry: asian = 7% of population, 200,000 aborigines now live in australia. 85% of people live in cities around the coast: southeastern coast is where most people live (melbourne, adelaide, sydney) Settlement pattern like this because most major cities grew as ports during colonial times.
