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by coffeeshopgoth 1052 days ago
The list is very much Australian. As someone who has done land leasing for natural resources, you can rack up a pretty huge leasing position pretty quick (I know these people on the infographic own it, but back in the day it was pretty easy to just pay next to nothing for a lot of these parcels - Gina Rinehart has expanded her kingdom, but she inherited an awful lot from Langley). One time, I was looking at something for oil and gas exploration and they came back with a number of $20,000,000 - I was thinking, "Oh, that is going to be something, like, 20,000 acres, probably." They gave me the numbers and I converted it acreage, looked at it on a map and recalc'd a few times because I thought I was way off. Nope. It was just an equivalent acreage as Tennessee, that's all.