Re: "...mockery..."
Pfft. I can drive for two days from my home town in Queensland and I'm still in Queensland. Bigger place.
Pfft. Western Australia, is half as big again as QLD. My home, south of Perth, to Kununurra is over 2,000 miles. I admit that I have not driven it myself, but I did drive to Derby, which is only 1,500 miles. I made a couple of diversions on the way, so I clocked up over 5,000 miles on the trip.
Unless we have a motorist from the Sakha Republic, I claim this >>=======>