Find out how big the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is in relation to where you live...

Today the London Evening Standard reported outrage as BP chief executive, Tony Howard, claimed that the recent spill, off the southern tip of Louisiana (which left 17 workers injured, 11 missing and 200,000 galleons of crude oil a day leaking into the Gulf of Mexico), was "relatively tiny".

The current size of the Deepwater Horizon spill is hard to measure exactly, but attempts have been made to estimate it. Click here to compare its size in relation to where you live...