For the record

[den]

That danger map could be made for any country. Everywhere has dangerous animals.

Except New Zealand. The most dangerous thing there are eldery bowls ladies in Toyota Crowns.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

One reason why I did this was because a lot of people say Australia is an amazingly dangerous place, but we've only ever had one really destructive cyclone (Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin in the mid 70s) and one really destructive earthquake (4.9, Newcastle 1988). Floods tend to be slow-moving, muddy affairs that don't wipe towns off the map, mountains don't explode, tornadoes are rare, and we don't get state-wide blizzards that bury trains, freeways and towns. Heatwaves are a non-issue because we expect them every year.

The only things you have to remember is to keep an eye open while you walk, carry a stick, and don't pick it up if you don't know what it is.