Its extreme breadth was not more than a quarter of a mile.

The primary characteristics of the kipper tie are its extreme breadth (normally 4.5-5 inches) and often garish colors and patterns.

Ellipsoidal in shape, it was 98 centimeters in length by 52 in extreme breadth Made of steel one centimeter in thickness, it had to be strong, but not grossly so, just enough to hold a vacuum.

It has alternately been proposed that the name "kipper tie" is a reference to the extreme breadth of the tie resembling a kipper, or a sly reference to the designer, whose last name, Fish, was evocative of a kipper.

The description in Records was exact, but it had not caught the catlike menace of the big man, the extreme breadth of the shoulders, and the narrow waist, or the cold immobility of the eyes that now examined Bond with an expression of aloof disinterest.

Antiquarian Reynell Johns claimed that until the mid-1850s, Aboriginal people made a "habit of visiting the place annually and retracing the outlines of the figure [of the bunyip] which is about 11 paces long and 4 paces in extreme breadth."

The church is a small church with seating for approximately one hundred people; the inside length is 71 ft. and the extreme breadth 24 ft. It was built with rock-faced random-squared coursed stone with ashlar dressings and has a bright red clay tile roof.

It is about sixteen miles in length and eight miles in extreme breadth, comprising an area of 47,500 acres, of which by far the greater part is mountain pasture, and, with the exception of about 400 acres of woodland and plantations, the remainder is arable and in good cultivation.