HOW FAR ??

clazandaza · Senior Member

HOW FAR ??

willem269 · Senior Member

Somewhere around the 30,000 K? Did you look into projecting the whole of Australia on Europe (West border on Ireland, east somewhere in Turkey). That's an eyeopener for many people. But you travel to the wrong country to impress them with distances, especially travelling east-west

golivers travels · Guru

Hi Ian
We have travelled more of a figure 8 around the block, including Tassie, clocked up 55,000km with a couple to go.
Cheers
Glenda

old briney · Senior Member

say the drive from Canada to Mexico about 15 times

willem269 · Senior Member

That's 40,000 k, bit much I think

jules47 · The Happy Helper

At some post offices or newsagencies you can get a postcard with the map of Europe superimposed over a map of Australia, also a map of USA superimposed over Australia - international tourists are sometimes flabbergasted at how huge this country is! Try and get some of these to take with you - as for distance - suppose it depends on which way you do it, as others have said.

goinsoon · Guru

The circumference of Australia is about 25760 km

willem269 · Senior Member

I typed the route in Google Maps, Sydney, Batemans Bay, Traralgon, Melbourne, Adelaide, Norseman, Albany, margaret River, perth, Exmouth Broome Kununurra, Darwin, Three Ways, Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney. And that was 16,000 K's. But that is not included Tassie, Karumba, Cape York, The southern peninsula's Fleurieu, York and Eyre, not Arnhem Land and so on.

blaze · Guru

We have done close to 10000km just going from Tassie to Albany
cheers
blaze

Travel Bug · Guru

Sorry, can't help with the USA map...

here's the one of Europe.

willem269 · Senior Member

Funny thing is, that map of Europe is pretty old. By splitting up the former Yugoslavia and all the Russian and Baltic states we are talking of 51 countries nowadays that are covered by Australia. The biggest being Russia with 17,000,000 square km, the smallest Monaco, 1.9 sq.km