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Very interesting. By the dimensions I suspect it is done from Mercator's projection, too, which tends to make northern Europe bigger than it really is. Cutting out the sea and Turkey, I reckon Sweden, Finland and Italy and a fair bit of Russian Europe could be tucked in. | |||
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I don't know why they knocked off exporting convicts to Oz, your map shows there is still plenty of room for more  | |||
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...especially those from countries where they only drink whisk(e)y, because there's fuckall water here (in the interior anyway).  -- Promise me, when I die, don't let my wife sell my guns for what I told I her I paid for them. | |||
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Yep plenty of room in the 8th and 9th states.  | |||
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Sambarman I have looked at such a map and even with the seas in it there is a fair hunk of European Russia and a bit of the top of the africa in it. | |||
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Shows just how small Europe is. JK | |||
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Small potatoes, let's see the comparison to Canada.  Grizz Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln Only one war at a time. Abe Again. | |||
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Not an enormous difference really, Canada, 9.09 million sqr Km Australia 7.68 million sqr Km. https://hsiestage5resources201.../Aust%20and%20US.PNG http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2KOo...ica_AustraliaMap.jpg | |||
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The top 10 in land mass Country........Area M Km2 Russia.........17075200 Canada........9976140 USA............9629091 China..........9596960 Brazil..........8511965 Australia......7686850 India...........3287590 Argentina.....2766890 Kazakhstan...2717300 Sudan..........2505810 But in the top 4 biggest countries, 1/4 to 1/2 is covered by ice. http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/...atistics_by_area.htm Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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If they still did that they won't be anyone left in Europe! What will the politicians, lawyers and bankers, Australia would be swamped! | |||
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And the used car sales people would sink us | |||
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Frank with global warming we may shrink or expand depending on the land below the ice lol ... | |||
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It's interesting that Brazil is larger than Australia - and much better watered. That the ordinary people of Brazil have not prospered to a greater extent, suggests Australia should beware of adopting a trickle-down economic system where the rich get richer and the poor get the steam off their ... | |||
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