hehe, this kinda looks like the island of sodor

Isn't that the Thomas The Tank Engine setting?

yeap

I don't know what the island of sodor looks like from above :P

it looks like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped.....swolfe.svg.png

Australia came first, and actually exists at least

._. uuummmm okay ^_^;

the map is upside down

Then that means the world is upside down! XD

No, actually there are no rules saying north is up ro south is down cause if you havent seen there are maps that display maps as south is up and north is down, its all in our perspective http://cultivatedpages.files.wordpr.....world-map2.gif

That is just fucked up! :D

in what way?

there are no rules telling us that things should be like that

if history was diffrent and the map would look like that we would question the current map

Then surely Antarctica would have to be renamed "Arctica"? XD

Actually that sounds cooler!

You're awesome on this.

Australia, My Favorite part of the world. Great art pice

Wait,where is the E.A.C.?

It's off the map =P

You should see about selling these to some place, like a children's atlas or something.

Well, I got the idea from a children's atlas I own. The illustrator there did a much better job than me

Cool map!

Are the animals placed on the map exactly where you'd find them in Australia?

Give or take a few miles =P

Who needs Google maps? Your maps are much more interesting to look at.

Pity there's no streetview :P

I just love your geographic map pictures Mark and this is no exception. It's just exellent.

I have to admit I'm now thinking about anthromorphised versions of the cast from Prisoner: Cell Block H. :D

Haha, i like how you draw Dingo's, Koala's and the Kookaburra

I like how the kangaroo came out :)

Red Kangaroo: Yeah, I'm a red kangaroo. I'm pretty sure you've seen them on telly before? Well what do you expect me to do, sing outback songs and mate with a Sheila roo right before your eyes?......I think that's what he would say if he was real. Well judging by the size, I think it's male. LOL

Females have pouches too

D'OH! :D Let me re-phrase that. Red Kangaroo: What? You expecting me Joey to just jump out of my pouch. He's over there taking a....I'll stop there. :D

Hey! Nice work. The Bee Gee will love it!!!!

The Bee Gees? Of course, they were Australian. So are Pendulum and INXS.

Yea! Don't forgot Jake from The Rescuers Down Under should there too.

Thats where my sisters at.

Very nice ^^

One country I hope to visit someday.

Ditto.

I wholeheartedly agree.

You should have included a Billabong and a jolly Swagman.

Should have included Foster's lager while I'm at it :P

Excellent piece of art!

You forgot Geelong, also. CAIRN THE CATS!!!!!! AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI!

Cool choice, Can't wait to see what you come out with next *ahem...Asia and Siberia*

Asia would be a massive challenge; the size of the map would be too big for Fur Affinity's size regulations! XD

Well, you know...sometimes you just gotta be a rebel! I'd have suggested Italy, but it'd have be almost as big as the Asia map to get everything in.

Nice map. Well, would you like a challenge?

Maybe ^^. What kind of challenge?

How about drawing me a ref sheet, a big ref sheet?

I could do in time, if you pay me. ;)

Pay? No. I do not do pay, I do Free only.

No money, no sale. Sorry mate!

That's ok. Not everyone here beleives in Free Art like me.

Fair enough. ^^ I believe in that you don't get something for nothing.

I will tell my belife in my new meme.

Nice map. Well, would you like a challenge?

This is just freaking cool dude X3

awesome! yay Melbourne! =D

I'm hoping to do Australia in 2011 for my birthday in August.

I won't get there for at least another year or so... ^^

Great map, well done!

I would LOVE to go there! I am not a fan of the snowy wasteland that is: Canada in wintertime! I also like how they have a city named Townsville x3. A very win country! Has brought the world many great things! I would so hope to travel there someday! Btw Keen I love your maps! If you ever became a cartographer I would so buy them!

Scotland is a miserable place in wintertime as well most of the time. Thanks :)

Noted! Will keep that in mind ^^ and you're welcome! :3

I think a few Australians wouldn't mind a cool winter holiday in Canada to avoid the hear of the bush. :D

Well I am sure that a few Canadians would love to escape the cold frigid wasteland that is the north! x3 I for one hate putting up with the snow and the ice and the coldness EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. And it lasts for months! :( I like the heat honestly, I can take 30'C no problem! The Humidity I don't care for but the pure heat is fine to me! In fact I camp it out at my friends in front of his space heater cranked to max! x3

I take it you live up in somewhere like the Yukon if you're complaining about the cold that much. :D

Weeeeeelll Not really xD! I am in the Southern ontario area, that's where we all be spammed at. I just don't like anything less than 20' Celcius. And anything less than 15'C is not too enjoyable to me x3. i got like next to no body fat so ofcourse anything that isn't very nice and warm is gonna be not so comfortably cool to me lol. Not sure if I could take 40' straight heat (probably but I will have to find out!) So yeah...now what we get here, which is roughly 32' when it's NOT HUMID feels just great to me, I feel good. Like my body has renewed vigor! But in the crapsack winter wonderland, I need my mandatory 5-7 layers of clothing and facemask to cope with below zero temperatures with the pesky windchill! Anyways look at me ramble! xD!

Southern Ontario should be in the same humidity zone as us here in the UK roughily, and yes from time to time uit does get extreamily cold. Cold enough for snow like wed had last month.

I saw you guys get snow on the news! xD Yeah, on average despite being more south than you, we get colder. Every year by the time it hits November it gets cold enough for snow, and it stays as such until probably end of March. So it stays rather cold for a while here. But we definitely have 2 very different extremes here x3 1) Very humid, pretty dry usually and warm and 2) Lot's of precipitation (in the form of snow) dry air and cold.

I would assume cold weather coming in from the icy portions of Canada above you are to blame for you having colder weather despite being quite southern and the reason why it lasts longer up there I guess.

I would probably say you're basically on the ball there! x3 I mean we are a bit more moderated by the great lakes here, but overall the Arctic Air just races down through the continent here, I mean even way down south can get to be your temperatures! I think you guys lucked out with being more moderated and stabilized in europe. Ah well, I would be pleased if I could live in a place that could be a nice stable warm temperature in the 20' - 30'C area. Now take a look at the plains, That place is pure suck for cold temperatures, at the same latitude they can recieve down to -30' possibly -40 at times which is downright nasty! I have experienced that when I traveled east to Quebec, IT SUCKS! I do not ever want to experience that coldness ever! NEVER EVER! Lol.

Stable would be the wrong word to describe UK weather trust me! A lot of people here think our weather is very unstable. We go from drought to flood inm a blink of an eye.

Hmm yeah then again we don't have THAT, but our weather is random in the fact we can have a sunny day then suddenly a 30 minute severe thunderstorm from out of no where then it can be all drenched and back to sunny! In winter we can get whiteout conditions due to our lake effect snow squalls which can really complicate travelling around out there! But I wouldn't say it is as bad as there in the UK probably.

Forgot to add: And the snow squalls are just something that spawns at a moments notice and can really be treacherous when they smack into you just like that! xD

Our weather can be likie that too. We tend to have a habit of attracting weird and wonderfull weather, due to our location. :D

I'm inclined to say that probably due to our location we have the same wierdness magnet effect going on as well. It's most noticeable in the equinoxes where Spring and Summer represent the struggle of warm and cool air masses and dry and wet weather fronts all in a crazy collision vying for control of our spot. Because of our proximity to a number of decently sized bodies of water, and that we are just a little too far right from being in the middle of the continent, we tend to be heavily influenced by all manner of fronts and different pressure systems. For instance, it's rare but possible to end up with something totally bizarre like 31'C at the end of March, but in early April drop all the way to -15'C and snow. Only to raise up right after that to a moderate 20'C and thunderstorms. It's very random but more stabilized in Summer and Winter when we get a more dominant and consistent climate (Summer is similar to any non-tropical location that reaches 30' and is humid. Winter is similar to any non-arctic location that drops below zero and recieves snow for at least a quarter of the year.)

D'oh! I meant Autumn/Fall! The TV said Summertime on there and made me type it instead of Fall! So replace the first Summer with Fall! xD

:D

Are you smiling because I am amusing? Or could it be the fact that our weather here is chaotic like yours? Possibly a third option perhaps?

The way you made your weather sound, it defenatily sounds more chaoticthen ours. :D

Sorry chaotic then ours.

Np lol.

Lol that's what we be known for at the great lakes basin! Due to our unique layout with the several large bodies of water, and the fact we are no longer than a day's drive to the ocean...Well yeah xD Alot can influence it, but mainly the lakes do a great job of spawning storms all on their own, couple that with the predominantly western winds from the pacific that roll over the country and you got yourselves a conveyor belt of locally produced fronts! But the odd front from way down south, or from up north, or even the east can once in a while poke in too! So you never quite know what you will get! x3

Its usually in the 40's here in summer, with dry heat!

Way up north in Darwin tends to be stable 30's with loads of humidity tho! XD But thats cause its close to the equator! Down in Taz i think stays low too.. not sure, but mainland is HOT! X'D

Darwin sounds alot like us in summertime, We die in the humdity, I am always wet and sweaty from it! D: It's not from the heat obviously, but it's just....inconvenient. If I could get straight heat in the 30's ranges I would be absolutely fine with that! I would be interested to try 40's Straight heat, not sure if it would be comfortable to me or not. Still sounds nicer than less than 10'- to me with windchill. x3

40's are ok, but the heat really makes you loose all your energy XD and constantly hunting for water! I dont mind the cold as long as i have sufficient clothing.. I get cold so easily, i need MANY layers! And i also prefer to be snowboarding if i have to be in any such coldness! X'D

Ditto, I get cold very easily myself too, I need plenty of clothes on (possibly enough to dress 4-5 people!) However it's the fact I have a hard time getting too hot, and the proneness to getting chilled is what has me appreciating hotter temperatures over cooler ones x3. And yeah! The sports in the winter are at least interesting! On the contrary, I find winter to sap my strength more due to the fact I struggle more to breathe in cold air, the heavily layered clothes really weigh me down, making each step need more energy, and whatnot. The fact I am comfortable with minimal clothes and the fact I don't overheat easily at all makes my body perform at an optimum performance in summertime hotness! :3

OMFG!! I got like a million things to say about how awesome this is!! XD YEY

1st things first, HOLY CRAP you included Wagga Wagga! there's so many people that live here who don't even know about it, so thats quite a an awesome thing to see here, since thats where i'm from! Woo!
Awesome to see you included the Great Dividing Range too, even the teeny tiny bit of snow we get sometimes! XD

The tazzie devil is actually black and white they aint nothing like the one from loony toons! ^o^
Koala's hate being called bears XD (cause they arn't one!)
and a spelling correction: Wollongong

The Kookaburra is Super cute! and Ayers Rock is also known as Uluru

I'd really like to explore much more of it, only been around NSW, VIC, ACT and TAS.... Aus is HUGE XD

Anyways, nice job on this!! =)

I knew I'd spell something wrong, I did that on the United States map too =P. Uluru is the aboriginal name of Ayer's Rock I believe, which is kind of cool :)

The majority of town names in Aus-land are Aboriginal names ^^.. eg, Wagga Wagga means 'Lots of crows' in the Wiradjuri. (which is the tribe name for the aboriginals that were from around that area)
=)

That water's got to evapourate at some point...

Cyclone Yari will suck it up :D

Everybody wins then? I'm not sure =P

Maybe ^^. I have considered Japan and China as well.

Don't forget the sea snakes.

A few years late, but one thing.

You mis-spelt Wollongong. :P

Other than that, all good!

Oops!

I want To go to Australia For the winter