How to Guess Australia on Geoguessr

[rajajinnah]

Nice of you to bring zi8gzag as an expert guest 😊

[MediocreApologist]

Zig zag, first off thank you for this free educational geoguessr content . it’d be really helpful if you made a map with South Africa, Australia, NZ, Tasmania, etc, and used a deductive method (ie process of elimination) to rule out the limited list of countries.

[ErykKrzeminski]

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say we need an india guide

[Aldurrr]

zigzag i really appreciate you just doing what you want and helping your fans instead of just making all of the videos that would get most views. thank you so much

[linusskoldberg]

Really nice idea for a series! Funnily enough the Australia guide is on our list of guides that needs improvement. Definitely not the most popular choice, but I would be really interested to eventually hear your thoughts on Sweden.

[fertdt]

I: go to YouTube to find a video on how to regioguess Australia.
Zigzag: released a new video on how to regioness Australia 2 hours ago

[kodrelumin]

Let's not go too far away from Australia and do New Zealand for the next video.

[Jimmysbadatgolf]

0:30 I could really use some help on liechtenstein

[bebelnirk]

geoguessr explained finally explaining

[niar]

Please consider bringing in other pros for countries they specialize in, like Angelo for Mexico, RC for Peru, finbarr for Russia

[sbf]

Yesss excited for this series! Going to be so fun + so much to go over.

[apatheiajane]

Trust the trees! Not a geoguessr, but I do got some tree knowledge.

The waxier leaf tree near Taree is a brush box (lophostemon). It’s an east coast rainforest tree, but also mass planted as suburban street trees til ~1980s, used line up to 20% of middle ring Perth streets.

The dense veg (inc spiky boys & ferns) is coastal tree swamp, I found it the easiest round by far! The dominant tree is paperbark (melaleuca), super distinctive with the thick white peeling bark, & means it’s regularly waterlogged. You do get paperbark thickets in SW WA, but not with tall straight trees & dense understory. Plus you can see lianas or vines, so it’s an ecotone with littoral rainforest, which SW WA definitely does not have. There is also paperbark dominated coastal tree swamp in northern QLD (& invasive in Florida), but the structure just looks different to me. So it’s definitely east coast, & probably subtropical. From just first glance at the vegetation, I’d say +90% chance between Caloundra & Maryborough, under 5km from the coast, with an outside chance of being K’gari, northern NSW, or weird looking regrowth in northern QLD. I’ve seen it growing just like that along Rainbow Beach Rd, so I would have guessed there.

Didn’t get a good look, but the needle trees are probably sheoaks (casuarina, named after the leaves looking like cassowary feathers). If you see them, you’re almost certainly Aus-Pacific islands-SE Asia region, or Madagascar - they’re a Gondwanan family, whereas the pine family conifers were exclusively Laurasian (northern hemisphere) in their natural distribution.

[Madvillayo]

wake up babe new zigzag australia guide just dropped

[sevaspirin]

looking forward to this series! Ok even though it's a small country I think you kinda have to do Uruguay next or at least soon for obvious reasons. Especially since you're super good at it

[bigmiraclewhips]

gascoyne just got gen 4 but luckily the boot survives on a couple of roads

[incogneeto]

I can't explain how useful this is. I know you don't get that many views on this channel compared to the main one, but the people who watch these will be part of the community long term to a much bigger degree.

This will make learning countries super easy for me as I will watch the videos, note down what I need to learn, then practice between videos and revise as needed. Once you get through like 20 countries I'm sure my rating will improve by like 50%.

I'm so excited and looking forward to put in the work :D

[lindinforester]

35:56 A nice little piece of meta is that all other states and territories are jealous of Queensland.

[sanj_lh]

I definitely needed this series as an intermediate player! thanks for doing the geoguessr explaining :)

[CapnJack]

Love this! I feel like i get more from listening someone go through these than me trying to do it all myself.

[pontuspanflojt]

This is truly terrific. Love the educational content in this channel rather than just content of you playing with little explanation. If you aim at us intermediate players, please be heavy on how to region guess within the country.