eli5: How did Australian cities emerge in the furthest corner from the direction of travel

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Australia itself is massive, I mean wouldn’t travellers from Europe discover the North-west corner first and start building from that end? But the biggest cities are all the way on the other side of a continent. Why?

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It wasn’t one country back then, it was five separate colonies. On my father’s side, we came to Adelaide in 1856. On my mother’s side, our first ancestor came to New South Wales (in handcuffs…) in 1802. So that’s why there are five main cities.

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