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  • From: "Peter Suter" <petersuter@adaptablesoftware.com.au>
  • To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] wild foods ... how many acres per human?
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:59:46 +1100

Hi,
I remember reading somewhere that back in the days of European settlement in
Australia the carrying capacity was estimated at 20,000 Aboriginals.
My calculator says that's 950120 Acres each.

Current Population 21.6 Million
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?O
penDocument

Area. 7.69 million square kilometers
http://www.dfat.gov.au/aib/island_continent.html

Conversion 1 900 240 383 5 acres
http://www.onlineconversion.com/area.htm

Hope it helps






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