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Sri Lanka is about the same size and equally mountainous, and about half as far from the Indian mainland as Tasmania from Victoria, but its population is forty
by dmurray 6y ago
Sri Lanka is about the same size and equally mountainous, and about half as far from the Indian mainland as Tasmania from Victoria, but its population is forty times bigger at 20 million people. It's got to come down more to historical accident than the isolation or the topography.
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- sk0g 6y agoThere's lots of room for the population to grow on the mainland still, and Tasmania doesn't have much of a draw, except for wine, and isolation I guess. Not that there's a lack of isolation going around... Historically, Aboriginal people didn't really expand their population much, not that the barrenness of most of the landmass helped, while white/ other people have only been on the island for ~240 years.
- jl6 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam's_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam's_Bridge Sri Lanka doesn’t seem too isolated.