Referenced Aperture library larger than iPhoto library?

My iPhoto library is 232 GB , so to save space, I deciced to imort them to Aperture 3 as a referenced library.
A few hours later, 'processing' has stopped and my Aperture Library is now a whopping 283 GB. If Aperture is simply pointing to the pictures in iPhoto why is the library now so large?

I'm not sure how I search for Managed Masters, but there will be some there as I have been downloading pictures from my camera directly to Aperture before I Referenced those in my iPhoto Library.
However I can see that the iPhoto images are all badged indicating that they are Referenced and when I use 'Locate Referenced Files' to  display a list of Referenced Images it shows that there are 34,440 in my iPhoto Library.

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