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How big is 221.1 cubic yards?

It's about 0.0000003 times as big as Sydney Harbour
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The size of Sydney Harbour is about 735,000,000 cubic yards.
(formally Port Jackson, a.k.a. Sydney Harbor) (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) (total estuary water volume at high tide)
Lending the term "sydharb" or "sydarb" to comparable quantities of water, Sydney Harbor contains approximately 735,000,000 cubic yards of water. Snapper Island, a onetime naval facility loocated in the Harbour, was transformed by the dredging efforts of the Australian Navy from a 2,360 sq. m (25,400 sq. ft) outcropping to a 16,500 sq. m (178,000 sq. ft) island shaped roughly in the outline of a boat.
It's about 4,000,000 times as big as a Golf Ball
The size of a Golf Ball is about 0.000053213150 cubic yards.
(per R&A-USGA Rules of Golf)
According to the Rules of Golf (as approved by the United States Golf Association and the Rules Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of Saint Andrews), a golf ball must have a volume of at least 0.0000532126630 cubic yards. Golf balls are not required to have the familiar dimpled pattern, but the design has been popular since its invention in 1905 because it reduces drag while increasing lift.
It's about 5,000,000 times as big as a Marshmallow
The size of a Marshmallow is about 0.0000400 cubic yards.
A regular marshmallow measures about 0.0000400 cubic yards. In the 1984 movie Ghostbusters, a monster known as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was a fictional mascot of a marshmallow company, brought to life by supernatural forces and made gigantic — measuring 34.3 m tall in this form.
It's about 15,000,000 times as big as a Gumball (packed)
The size of a Gumball (packed) is about 0.0000130 cubic yards.
(64% packing density) (commercial-grade vending machine standard size)
The standard size gumball for a commercial grade vending machine has a volume of 0.0000120 cubic yards. Walter Diemer, an accountant at the Fleer Company in Philadelphia, is the man responsible for bubblegum's traditional pink color, as pink was the only food coloring in the company's factory when he made his first successful batch of gum.
It's about 20,000,000 times as big as a Gumball
The size of a Gumball is about 0.0000120 cubic yards.
(commercial-grade vending machine standard size)
The standard size gumball for a commercial grade vending machine has a volume of 0.0000120 cubic yards. Walter Diemer, an accountant at the Fleer Company in Philadelphia, is the man responsible for bubblegum's traditional pink color, as pink was the only food coloring in the company's factory when he made his first successful batch of gum.
It's about 0.00000000004 times as big as an Halley's Comet
The size of an Halley's Comet is about 5,300,000,000,000 cubic yards.
(Comet Halley, officially "1P/Halley") (volume calculated based on 2005 dimensions)
Halley's Comet, the famous comet visible to observers on Earth approximately every 76 years, has a peanut- or potato-shaped nucleus made of rock, dust, ice, and various frozen gasses. The nucleus measures approximately 15 km by 8 km by 8 km, which yields a calculated volume of 5,300,000,000,000 cubic yards. The coma of the Comet — the trail of sublimated gasses that give the Comet its visibility — may be up to 100,000 km in length.
It's about 0.00000000004 times as big as The Grand Canyon
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The size of The Grand Canyon is about 5,450,000,000,000 cubic yards.
(Coconino County and Mohave Counties, Arizona, near Fredonia and Grand Canyon, Arizona)
A dynamic and continuously changing landscape, the Grand Canyon has an approximate volume of 5,450,000,000,000 cubic yards. The strata of the rock visible in the Canyon's walls display nearly 2 billion years of geological history.
It's about 0.00000000000007 times as big as The Gulf of Mexico
The size of The Gulf of Mexico is about 3,184,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 cubic yards.
(water volume)
The Gulf of Mexico contains 3,184,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 cubic yards of water. Every second, the Mississippi River empties 15,700 cubic yards of water into the Gulf.
It's about 0.0000000000000001 times as big as Earth's Oceans
The size of Earth's Oceans is about 1,800,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 cubic yards.
(Total water volume of Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans) (estimated)
Over 97% of the Earth's water is found in the planet's five oceans for a total volume of about 1,800,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 cubic yards. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covering 165,760,000 sq. km — more than double the area of the Atlantic Ocean at 82,400,000 sq. km.
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