Yet another attempt...

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Brian

Guest

• Nov 13, 2005

• #41

Dave Liquorice wrote:

>
> It's all a bit bigger than it looks down there. B-)
>
>

NZ is bigger than England. Those 'Northern hemisphere' maps distort the
latitude/longitude map divisions so the Northern hemisphere looks bigger
for details.

Brian NZ

 

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EMB

Guest

• Nov 13, 2005

• #42

Dave Liquorice wrote:

> It's all a bit bigger than it looks down there. B-)

If you bear in mind that NZ has a similar land area to
England/Scotland/Wales you get some idea of the scale and distances when
you look at a map.

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EMB

 

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Steve

Guest

• Nov 13, 2005

• #43

Brian wrote:

> Those 'Northern hemisphere' maps distort the
> latitude/longitude map divisions so the Northern hemisphere looks bigger
> for details.

Except, by being our antipodes almost exactly, the scale on the map is
virtually identical.

Steve

 

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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Nov 13, 2005

• #44

On or around Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:53:26 +1300, EMB <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>Dave Liquorice wrote:
>
>> It's all a bit bigger than it looks down there. B-)
>
>If you bear in mind that NZ has a similar land area to
>England/Scotland/Wales you get some idea of the scale and distances when
>you look at a map.

's rather more long and thin, though, isn't it.
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and those who can't" (Anon)

 

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Ian Rawlings

Guest

• Nov 13, 2005

• #45

On 2005-11-13, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:

> Except, by being our antipodes almost exactly, the scale on the map is
> virtually identical.

Get a globe, Africa is huge! Pity they can't get their collective act
together.

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Steve

Guest

• Nov 13, 2005

• #46

Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2005-11-13, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Except, by being our antipodes almost exactly, the scale on the map is
>> virtually identical.
>
> Get a globe, Africa is huge! Pity they can't get their collective act
> together.
>
UK is 244,000 km2
NZ is 269,000 km2

About 10% bigger. More room for sheep or Hobbits.

Steve

 

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Ian Rawlings

Guest

• Nov 14, 2005

• #47

On 2005-11-13, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:

> UK is 244,000 km2
> NZ is 269,000 km2
>
> About 10% bigger. More room for sheep or Hobbits.

We've got plenty of pond life over here, it infests the streets of our
cities! What we need is a nice flood, although apparently that's been
tried before and it didn't work.

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