In response to all who commented on the 'Wet Weather' between the UK and Australia look at the following from Wikipedia: How many times will United Kingdom fit into Australia? Answer: The land mass of the UK is 243,609 sq km The land mass of Australia is 7,692,024 sq km The UK will fit into Australia about 31.5 times. Read more:http://wiki.answers com/Q/How_many_times_will_united_kingdom_fit_into_Australia#ixzz21ANTInt3 Brian M Morley Queensland Australia -----Original Message----- From: yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of SBS Engineers Research Sent: 19 July 2012 09:09 To: Nivard Ovington; yorksgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [YORKSGEN] Wet Pudding Hi list and thanks to Nivard for a look at the wet weather, it's a very pretty sight. Although we have had the odd 'flood' in various parts of Australia, these reach a small area only and dry up quickly. Australia has been suffering the worst drought(s) since the Federation Drought(s).

From: "bmo06298@bigpond.net.au" <bmo06298@bigpond.net.au> > In response to all who commented on the 'Wet Weather' between the UK and > Australia look at the following from Wikipedia: > How many times will United Kingdom fit into Australia? > Answer: > The land mass of the UK is 243,609 sq km > The land mass of Australia is 7,692,024 sq km > The UK will fit into Australia about 31.5 times. > > > Read more:http://wiki.answers > com/Q/How_many_times_will_united_kingdom_fit_into_Australia#ixzz21ANTInt3 > > Brian M Morley > Queensland Australia> I'm afraid I am not entirely clear how this is relevant to the original thread or what point is being made. If the poster is saying that Australia is far bigger than Britain in land territory, I think we all knew that from our schooldays. However, a much more relevant factor is surely population. According to the most recently available figures at Wikipedia, the population of the United Kingdom in 2012 is 62,262,000, or approx 0.89 per cent of the world's population, The population of Australia is 22,675,627 or around 0.32 per cent of the world's population - marginally over one-third of the population of the UK. If Australia is 31-and-a-half times bigger than the UK in land mass terms but the UK has three times the population, then the UK is lord-knows-how-many times bigger (someone do the maths for me) in one sense. Of course, the figure will be slightly skewed by the number of Australians living over here in places liked Earls Court, London, and working as barmen and barmaids! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE