https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/nsw-cyclist-lachlan-morton-sets-around-australia-record-30-days/104426998
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Imagine being so totally alone (except for the dude following you in a car so you don't cheat) like that. Just you, your bike, and the beautiful country all around you (and a dude following you in a car to make sure you don't cheat)
Must've been great.
That peninsula has a name, you know.
...I mean, I couldn't say it off the top of my head, but it does have a name!
(it's the Cape York Peninsula, apparently. Apparently the population there is still 60% Indigenous, and they've successfully won native title rights to 45% of the land. The peninsula is largely coterminous with the traditional extent of the Paman languages, one of the two main branches of Pama-Nyungan, the largest language family in Australia — and among the Paman languages is Guugu Yimithirr, the language the word "kangaroo" is from. The Cape York Peninsula is also home to a number of Indigenous sign languages, and there is even a dialect of Auslan heavily borrowing from these, spoken by Deaf Indigenous people on the peninsula. Way cool!)