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Old colonial days of measurements and
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In Australia, early measurement for land was done with a unit
known as a 'chain', being the length of a cricket pitch. |
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Surveyors at work
in 1865, using “metric” chain unit of 66 feet divided into 100 “links”.
Photo: Dept. of Main Roads, NSW. |
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1 inch |
2.54 cm |
| 1 chain |
100 links/4rods |
20.11metres |
| 1 hand |
4 inches |
10.12cm |
| 1 foot |
12 inches |
30.5cm |
| 1 yard |
2 feet |
0.19metre |
| 1 mile |
5280feet |
1.61 kilmetres |
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| 1 acre |
4 roods/160 perches |
0.405 hectres |
| 1 square mile |
2.59 square kilometres |
10 square chains |
| 1 chain |
100 links/4rods |
20.11 metres |
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| 2.47 acres |
1 hectare |
10,000 sq metres |
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| 1 pound |
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0.45 45 kilograms |
| 1 ton |
220 pounds |
1.02 tonnes |
| 1 gallon |
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4.55 litres |
| 1 bushel |
8 gallons |
36.4 litres |
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$2 |
| 1 penny |
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1 cent |
| 12 pence (p or d) |
one shilling (s) |
10 cents |
| 20 shillings |
one pound |
1 dollar |
| 1 guinea |
21 shillings |
2 dollars 10 cents |
| in today's money, it means that £1 then was
equivalent to about $400 now |
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