r/imaginarymaps • u/Affectionate_Wash_11 • Apr 15 '23
[OC] Alternate History A very normal map of Australia.
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u/Burnt_Croissant987 Apr 15 '23
What happened to normal Australia?
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u/Affectionate_Wash_11 Apr 15 '23
It is French and called Antarctique because why not
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Apr 15 '23
Fell to the Emus.
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u/NotJustAnotherHuman Apr 15 '23
Beornia, that name sounds familiar lmoa
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u/Affectionate_Wash_11 Apr 15 '23
Divergences of darkness is a cool alt history; I had to sneak something from it somewhere lol
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u/paintphob Apr 16 '23
Very cool map. I always like seeing Antarctica without ice.
What do the white area represent?
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u/I-cast-fireball Apr 16 '23
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What is the ballpark population of this country?
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This country probably has a lot of natural resources, are they powerful? What kind of role do they play internationally?
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How do they navigate the many cultural divisions in their population? Does it cause friction?
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Where is the National capital, and what is its population?
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u/Affectionate_Wash_11 Apr 16 '23
165 million give or take
They’d be similar to otl Canada. A former British dominion that has lots of wilderness, resources and cultural ties to its former coloniser
Cultural relations were pretty bad in the past mainly due to the perceived superiority of Anglo settlers over other groups; especially when indigenous loss of land is involved. Today, it has calmed down a fair bit. Various landmark civil rights legislation aswell, increasing recognition of native land ownership and the legal recognition of languages other than English has played a big part in allowing fairer access to state institutions.
The capital is Tenebris sound, Capital Territory of New Goodhope (you can see it above the flag icon). It’s population itself is roughly 3 million though the wider metro that stretches from Gambiertown to Swellendam is far far bigger at around 20 and a bit million or roughly 1/8th of the total population of Australia
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u/XxBigGuy47xX Jan 26 '24
This is the most based thing ive ever seen, ever will see, and ever can see. I came 98176 times thank you
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u/KyloTennant Apr 16 '23
Lol very interesting to not only have a habitable Antarctica, but also have this alternate Antarctica own Buenos Aires!
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u/JarethMeneses Apr 15 '23
I love seeing maps made from antartica. I made a map for a dnd campaign based off antartica for my brother and the group loved it!
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Apr 15 '23
Goddamn, this popped up on my feed as I was watching what if antartica was green by alt history hub
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u/Soviet_WaffenSS Apr 16 '23
Australia
But its pitch black 50% of the time
So when its not eternal night, is it someone picking up the rock Australia is under?
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u/RYLE400 Mar 19 '25
What would the latitude and longitudes be of this alternate australia?
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u/Affectionate_Wash_11 Apr 15 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
Sorry for the late comment. Basically this scenario revolves around two things
Edit: Australia is just otl Antarctica but green. I repeat it is not ACTUAL AUSTRALIA BUT WITH THE CONTINENTS SWAPPED
Bottom text.
I don’t give a shit wether a ice free Antarctica alters the earths climate so severely that the very fabric of human development, culture and history are completely unrecognisable (suck my nan)
2.having a place be dark half the year is cool.
To summarise the history of this tl in a couple of bullet points would go like this:
-indigenous people from the south cone of South America arrive (known collectively as the Chonan people). They form a eclectic mix of hunter gatherers known killing and eating the big megafauna of Australia; and pastoralists who thrive off cultivated mushrooms during the depths of the no-light. They are mainly focused around Yaghania, Querande and Magellenca with further populations in Rossland and Drakesport (prior to their genocide)
-The Māori arrive. They chill around kill a couple megafauna and make some cool herbal teas. They are mainly focused around Waipatiki, New Goodhope (prior to genocide), Ulimroa and Rossland.
-the Spanish arrive. They decide to open a couple missionaries and do a bit of casual resource exploitation before finishing it off by having “special” relationships with the local natives leading to the creation of creole cultures. However, the sheer hostility and size of Australia prevents anything more serious.
-sir Francis drake in his everlasting effort to piss of the Spanish occupies the ever important shipping lane between current day Gwlad Y Tanau and modern days Drakesport. He slaughters the local Spanish settlers and claims the erea around vesperia for England and Queen
-the welsh arrive at Drakesport. Idk what else to say tbh; they farmed sheep ig?
-The following South American wars for independence cut any contact that the Spanish settlers had with the Spanish empire. The nicknamed Magellenos are quickly slaughtered by redcoats and subsumed into empire.
-the British seize South Africa. They rub their imperial braincells together and realise that they could use Antarctica to ship natural resources to Capetown. Boers decide to piss of the British by settling first and leveraging the key ports and natural resources for profits. This ever erea would be uncreatively named New Goodhope
-the Zulu and Xhosa are conquered by the empire and unceremoniously dumped at Australia for use as indentured servants. It would be a good 100 years before they would receive emancipation
-the British decide that indigenous people having things like independence and their unique cultures are bad. They proceed to slowly genocide them with the last of the Moriori Hapu being defeated in the 1930’s.
-generic otl shit happens. Fight in ww1, ww2, growing demands for independence blah blah blah
-natives begin the slow pursuit of greater rights and autonomy. They are backed up by fellow Zulu, Xhosa and Magelleno activist. The Australian civil rights movement has begun
-the Magellano’s (analogous to otl Québécois) flip flop between independence and union. Years of bombings and terror between union aligned natives and Anglo settlers and independence oriented Creoles and Magellenos occur. It is punctuated by the Good Friday agreement bringing a rocky peace to Spanish Country.
-today :)
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