On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:30 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles Robinson wrote: >> >> On May 26, 2009, at 12:57, William Robb wrote: >> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Charles Robinson" >>> Subject: Re: OT - Oz is a big place. >>> >>> >>> >>>>> http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/oz-vs-canada.jpg >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think the magic of the Mercator projection is making Canada look >>>> bigger >>>> than it really is.... isn't it? >>>> >>> >>> Perhaps a bit. >>> Australia is 7,617,930 sq km in area, Canada is 9,093,507 sq. km, or just >>> about 20% larger. >>> >> >> I realize I could have looked that up, too. But it was late and I was >> lazy. That's very interesting, I wouldn't have suspected that Canada is >> larger. Thanks! >> >> -Charles > > The 20% larger doesn't tell the whole story, Australia is fairly compact, > Canada contains some large areas of open sea... >
That 9,093,507km2 number does not include territorial waters. Canada is 9,984,670 km2 including territorial waters. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
