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    Size of Australia to Europe

    I love when we have visitors from other countries and they say when they arrive in Victoria could you pick me up or meet up for a coffee one day (I live between Sydney and Brisbane)..........lol lol lol lol.


    Taree NSW - Australia
    My motto in life: live by the three GGG’s - be Grateful, be Gracious, be Gorgeous to yourself

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    What a terrific map and what an education for us all! Aren't maps misleading? Trip planning...oh, that's only half an inch on the map, we can be there in a few hours...NOT :lol:

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      #3
      Jill, I loved seeing the map too. I knew Australia was large, and the map put it in context for us. Hope to get their one day. Thanks!

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        #4
        Jill, my son works in Melbourne and lives an hour on the train in Frankston.
        My husband ..daughter and I have been to Australia 5 times and have only seen Sydney,Canberra, Melbourne and Tasmania.
        It seems alot but that is such a small amount of Oz
        People don't realise that to get around Oz you have to fly and that is really expensive, I'm afraid my flying days are over.
        I would love to do a trip on the Gann.
        I will be 75 this month and 21 hours in a tin can is more than I could manage.
        It's a wonderful but vast country.
        My son has lived there for 19 years and I still miss him.
        Anne

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          #5
          Thanks Jilly--puts things in perspective.

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            #6
            Great picture - it really does tell a thousand words.

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              #7
              Yes great picture!

              Barb

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                #8
                Wow!

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                  #9
                  Thanks for sharing Jill. What an eye opener.

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                    #10
                    I wish we could superimpose a map of the USA to scale on that map to gain further understanding of the distances we all relate to in our daily lives. I wouldn't have a clue how to do that but i am very curious about what I might learn by looking at such an image.

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                      #11
                      Thanks everyone.

                      Also people do arrive in Alice Springs and ask the way for a walk to Ayers Rock/Uluru...............BUT its 450km or 260 miles away from Alice Springs.

                      Anne it is so hard when our children live so far away, our daughter lived in London for a few years so I feel for you.


                      Taree NSW - Australia
                      My motto in life: live by the three GGG’s - be Grateful, be Gracious, be Gorgeous to yourself

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                        #12
                        I just did a web search and found this:



                        You have to be careful when comparing maps of these large areas because how they look will depend on the underlying map projection. From what I found, Australia is 2.97 million sq miles while the continental US is 3.12 million square miles.

                        Nancy

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                          #13
                          Ha! and by one reference, Europe has 3,930,000 sq mi, and which countries are included and in what year was the data compiled. The plot thickens. :shock:

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                            #14
                            Those are great visuals! My German/Canadian friends explained that what causes problems is the maps of the US & the European countries are in an atlas on the same size pages of paper.

                            I live in Michigan and so many people do not realize how large the Great Lakes are.
                            Carol in SW Michigan

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                              Carol, especially when you think in terms of the Great Lakes having islands and ship wrecks.
                              Carol in SW Michigan

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