I got all except "Australian Captial Territory!" However, Northern Territory took be a while because I kept guessing "North Territories" or "Northern Territories." I think those type-ins should be accepted.
Geography Master? Hardly if you're unwilling to learn the correct names for places! (for future reference, ACT works, and that's what it's often called in everyday usage).
Got it in 6 seconds by putting Queensland in copy-paste clipboard, typing NSW, ACT, WA, NT, SA, Tasmania, Victoria then hitting Paste to load in Queensland.
I get the push for stating the "exact names," thus not allowing Canberra for Australian Capital Territory, but come on. On the U.S. States quiz, you don't have to type 'The State of ..." Plus, in most cases, Canberra and Australian Capital Territory are synonymous. The official demonym for the Australian Capital Territory is literally Canberran (look it up). Please be more lenient, at least in this case.
The difference is, people don't say the State of California, the State of New York in everyday usage. With the Australian Capital Territory, people say that name in everyday usage.
Never heard of the Australian Capital Territory- not sure if that's because it wasn't around when I was at school or I just wasn't paying attention- I did try Canberra though.
The ACT was founded in 1911, though its creation is mandated in the Australian constitution (Section 125, if my memory serves me correctly), which provides that territory should be set aside for a national capital, outside any of the states. It took two years after NSW transferred land to the Commonwealth Government for that purpose for Canberra to be founded in 1913. Most people probably think of Canberra and the ACT as synonymous. Population-wise, that's more or less true, but Canberra only occupies about the northern third of the territory of the ACT, the rest being bushland.
Yeah, they just kinda gave up at that point. Plus Queensland and Victoria are both named in honour of Queen Victoria. New South Wales having both 'new' and 'south' tacked onto it is a bit cumbersome, so I feel like only Tasmania got a decent, unique name.
Instead of Western Australia, Southern Australia, and Northern Australia, they decided to make the format of every name slightly different. I respect that.
Well, I'm sure you could say the same thing for a lot of featured type-ins. Nobody spells Edinburgh as Edinbobsleigh and capital is regularly accepted on subdivision quizzes.
Does anybody else find it irritating that the nomenclature for each direction related state is different? First there is 'South Australia', the direction, unchanged. Then there is 'WestERN Australia', with the adjective form of the direction. Finally we have 'NorthERN TERRITORY' with the adjective and an additional title in use. This inconsistency seems very unprofessional to me. Whoever did this was clearly not taking their yassss pills that day.
What's worse is that South Australia was also Northern Territory, but it was still called South Australia even though it was far from just south. The Northern Territory separated later.
The Northern Territory has too low a population density to support itself as a state. The top answer on Quora has a good explanation:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Northern-Territory-not-a-state
Got the rest with no problems.
Yup, i am an aussie
• The name of this one is "Australian Capital Territory"
• The offical and universally-used abbreviation is "ACT"
• Pretty much everone says "[the] ACT" unless they are being particularly formal, in which case they say "[the] Australian Capital Territory"
• A grand total of zero people call it "Capital Territory"
South Australia, sure
West-ERN Australia??
and finally
North-ERN... *Territory*???
Who was responsible for naming these xD