The bushfires which are currently burning inwards eastern Commonwealth of Australia direct keep destroyed well-nigh 480 homes. According to the Guardian paper the combined size of the unlike bushfires is at to the lowest degree 2.2m hectares. To illustrate how large 2.2m hectares is the Guardian has created an interactive map which allows yous to thought 2.2m hectares overlaid on transcend of a publish of global cities.
The How large are the fires burning on the due east coast of Australia? interactive is a real unproblematic map which consists of a foursquare polygon overlaid on New York, Paris, London together with a publish of Australian cities. The map besides includes the alternative to thought the size of the full fires inwards both Queensland together with New South Wales separately, every bit smaller squares overlaid on the same global cities.
The animated Gif inwards a higher identify was made using imagery from the Himawari-8 satellite. The imagery consists of a publish of satellite images, taken ten minutes apart, which were captured betwixt around midday together with 4pm on twelfth December.
