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Australia, a World Leader in Bigness

Don’t think of it as the smallest county, but as a huge island.
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We could rattle off some statistics, about size and distance. But sometimes a picture is more eloquent than a thousand words. Here are two postcard maps. That’s two thousand words right there.


Many thanks to Anna Chlebinska, a collector of cartographic postcards, for sending in these beauties.

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Got a strange map? Let me know at strangemaps@gmail.com.

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