If I wanted to circumnavigate the world by water (boat) what is the shortest total distance around?
I'm looking for the total number of meters you would have to travel around the world if the entire voyage was on water. Thru canals counts, as well as any waterway that gets me around the world. I don't want circumference of the world, but travelable distance.
I ask this not because I'm going to actually sail or boat around the world, but because I've been rowing for exercise for 17 years. I've accumulated 35,000,000 meters in that time and estimate that I've 'rowed around the world' when I get to about 41,000,000 meters. Is that correct?
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Using Google Maps, I get about 40850 km (Gibraltar - Suez Canal - Red Sea - around the tip of Sri Lanka - through the Malacca Strait - North of Borneo - South of the Philippines - straight across the Pacific - Panama Canal - straight across the Atlantic), so 41000 km is a good approximation.
I’m on my mobile right now, I’ll try to refine this when back on the desktop. There may be alternative ways around Indonesia that may shave off a little bit.
Note that this is using straight lines just avoiding obvious landmasses, not taken into account anything special like lanes of traffic in busy place and of course not taking into account prevailing winds or currents which would be relevant for sailing... or rowing.
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The original definition of "meter" was a distance such that there are 10,000,000 of the between the equator and the North Pole. Since that is one fourth of the way around the Earth, the total distance would be 40,000km. That is what's known as a "normal" route (being perpendicular, or normal, to the equator); an equatorial route would be longer. Also, the current definition of the meter is slightly different, but 40,000km is still accurate to a few kilometers for the normal route.
Longer still would be an actual route, as there is generally land in the way. Of course, if you go to the North Pole, a route that crosses all meridians can be arbitrarily small. Thus, defining just what constitutes a "circumnavigation" tends to be complicated, with such stipulations as the route include at least one pair of antipodal points.
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