 | devongeography Aug 11 |
Forest Gump made it across the contiguous United States in the 1994 movie. His shortest route, from California to Georgia, measures a lengthy 2,339 miles (3,764 kilometers), while his longest route, from northern California to Maine, would come in at 3,527 miles (5,676 km). If you want to super-size the journey, you could try the Pan-American Highway, a network of roads that stretches nearly 19,000 miles (30,500 km) from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. But the validity of this route depends how you classify a hop over the Panama Canal. Another contender for the longest possible journey by foot, begins in Cape town (South Africa) and ends 13,735 miles later in the north east of Magadan in Russia. But if someone wanted to walk in a straight line, and ignore impassable terrain like the mountains of Central Asia, they would instead find their trip starting in China and wrapping up in southwestern Portugal.  In 2018, Rohan Chabukswar, an electrical engineer and physicist working at Collins Aerospace Applied Research and Technology in Cork, Ireland, and Kushal Mukherjee, an engineer at IBM Research in New Delhi, calculated the longest possible straight overland route that does not cross any bodies of water. Their 6,984-mile (11,240 km) path starts in south-eastern China, then passes through 13 additional countries — Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, France and Spain — before ending near Sagres, in Portugal. However, if you make use of Mr Google, there are a number of competing theories and ideas! |
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