AREA OF AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14359, 2 May 1910, Page 6

AREA OF AUSTRALIA.

Australia is the largest isKlnd in the world. Its greatest length, from west to east, that is,/ from Steep Point, opposite Dirk Eartog's Island, to Port Cartwright, is about 2400 miles; its greatest width, between Cape ""York on the ■; north ; and Wilson's Promontory on the south, is 1971 miles. Its coast line is about 7750 miles in . length, and its extent is computed at 2,944,628 square ■• miles, -or 1,844.561,920 statute acres, and this is not including Tasmania. • The area of New Zealand is set down as North Island .44,468 square miles, .. South Island 68,525 square miles, Stewart Island 665 square miles total, 103,658, square miles. Some' conception of the area of Australia may bo ; better gathered by comparison. It is about 26 times the size of Great Britain and Ireland, 15 times the size of France, about one-sixth smaller than the whole of the United States of America, and only about one-fifth smaller than the continent of Europe. The' Austraksian group occupies nearly two-fifths of tho whole of the British Dominions. .;