Australia's place in the Western imagination is substantially determined by Antipodality. Antipodality, in turn, is largely based on Antipodal inversion, that is, the notion that Australia, as Europe's Antipodes, is somehow like Europe except with the opposite sign. In what amounts to an almost symptomatic phenomenon, this notion frequently reveals itself incidentally, and even actively, in the form of the Antipodal uncanny. Different conceptions of Antipodal space as somehow unsettling and threatening to the European subject cohere in the theme of the Antipodal uncanny. During the nineteenth century, this theme acquired great poignancy as it began to penetrate deeply into the ideology of settler colonialism and its subliminal feelings of guilt over European invasion and Aboriginal dispossession. By the beginning of the twentieth century the Antipodal uncanny had become so entrenched that it surfaced explicitly in Kangaroo, a 1923 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence which was based on his only month-long visit to Australia. The following passage from Lawrence's novel provides one of the best examples of the Antipodal uncanny: