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Australia is the driest, inhabited continent in the entire world! Which means that, unlike every other continent, it doesn't have any large, life-sustaining lakes that supply water for millions and moderate the climate. But that's not to say it's never had any great lakes. Today, on Google Maps, you'd be right to assume the country has several very large, very prominent lakes in South Australia, but, in reality, those lakes don't really exist. So where did Australia's Great Lakes go?

In this video we'll cover the ancient history of how Australia became so dry in the first place, why great lakes are so important to every other inhabited continent in the world, and what happened specifically to the large and prominent-looking lakes that appear on Google Maps, but don't actually exist in real life.

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