The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41
Area
Area.
4. The area of Victoria is 88,198 square miles, or 56,446,720 acres. The whole Continent of Australia is estimated to contain 2,972,346 square miles, and therefore Victoria occupies about a thirty-fourth part of its surface. Great Britain, exclusive of the islands in the British seas, contains 89,644 square miles, and is therefore slightly larger than Victoria.