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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 20 Jun 2014 07:08 #118934

eileenkny OFFLINE Posts: 1958 Thank you received: 124	I had no idea! Australia is on our bucket list.
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 19 Jun 2014 08:09 #118921

idaho OFFLINE Posts: 2531 Thank you received: 183	Ah...the things you find in a scrap bag !
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 19 Jun 2014 07:03 #118920

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And she (Nancy) said, "Your wish is my command." Thank you! I loved seeing the maps of the USA and Australia. I just read an article somewhere indicating that here in the USA there are indications that we are learning a little bit more than we once knew about world geography. Perhaps that's a combination of world travel becoming more in the realm of possibility for more people and our use of www. It truly is a World Wide Web that has woven the quilters who visit these pages together. Isn't life/technology wonderful. At the same time, I really worry with the use of GPS systems in cars and phones for pedestrians we will forget how to read maps.

Just thinking, "we've got to be way off topic on this one", then looked at the Thread title to see the conversation fits. Amazing but true!

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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 18 Jun 2014 21:15 #118915

ritzy OFFLINE Posts: 2963 Thank you received: 82	Carol, especially when you think in terms of the Great Lakes having islands and ship wrecks.
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 18 Jun 2014 20:46 #118914

CarrieG OFFLINE Posts: 144 Thank you received: 83	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.
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 18 Jun 2014 09:31 #118905

suehenyon OFFLINE Posts: 1796 Thank you received: 51	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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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 18 Jun 2014 09:10 #118903

rehak OFFLINE Posts: 2783 Thank you received: 458	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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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 18 Jun 2014 05:36 #118897

Patchworkjill OFFLINE Posts: 652 Thank you received: 71	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.
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 18 Jun 2014 04:02 #118895

loise98 OFFLINE Posts: 2932 Thank you received: 267	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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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 18 Jun 2014 01:16 #118892

Limbania55 OFFLINE Posts: 673 Thank you received: 7	Thanks for sharing Jill. What an eye opener.
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 17 Jun 2014 21:25 #118887

loise98 OFFLINE Posts: 2932 Thank you received: 267	Wow!
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 17 Jun 2014 17:14 #118883

BarbCA OFFLINE Posts: 1134 Thank you received: 380	Yes great picture! Barb
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 17 Jun 2014 16:09 #118880

PosyP OFFLINE Posts: 4106 Thank you received: 361	Great picture - it really does tell a thousand words.
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Re: Size of Australia to Europe 17 Jun 2014 14:56 #118871

ritzy OFFLINE Posts: 2963 Thank you received: 82	Thanks Jilly--puts things in perspective.
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