Are we there yet?

Have you ever wondered how many lengths of an Olympic Swimming pool you'd have to swim to get between Sydney and Melbourne? 

14443.2 pools
Or how many parsecs it is between Alice Springs and Brisbane?
6.36554e-11 pc 

Or how many furlongs between Perth and Darwin?
13195.8 furlongs 

Do you want to know how you can answer questions such as these of your own accord?  One of the latest things to appear on Google Map Labs is the Distance Measurement Tool, which will tell you the distance between points as the crow flies or as you plot them.  And as well as telling you the distance in kilometres, or if you're American, or learned to drive before 1966, in miles, it also has an I feel geeky option that will translate the distance into all sorts of wacky or historic units of measurement.

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