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How Long can you Walk on Earth without Crossing a River?

Start your walk from any corner of the earth. Do you have any idea how far you can go without crossing any river or water source?
Difficult to travel in a straight line.
Starting from China to Portugal, the walk is about 11,240 km long.
Rivers or water sources will not come in the way.

 

How long can you walk on earth without crossing a river?

Start your walking journey from any corner of the earth. Do you have any idea how far you can go without crossing any river or water source? Maybe not. One such way was discovered in the year 2018. You will not have to cross any river or water source in this journey on foot.

According to the report of Live Science, British sailor George Meagan thought of fixing the distance from Argentina to Alaska in America. They took a total of 2425 days to travel 30,608 km long. He reached Alaska in 1983. At the same time, US Army Ranger Holly Harrison completed a distance of 23,305 km on this route in just 530 days in the year 2018.

The longest walk is decided by another contestant. In the middle of the year 2020, he started traveling from Cape Town, South Africa with the help of Google Map. He completed a 22,104 km journey to Magadan, Russia. Although their name has not been disclosed. No river or big water source will come in this way.

It has been said in the report that if you want to go in a straight line, that too without crossing any river or water source, then this journey can start from China to Portugal. In 2018, Rohan Chabukswar, a physicist at Collins Aerospace Applied Research and Technology in Cork, Ireland, and Kushal Mukherjee, an engineer at IBM Research, discovered this path.

Rohan and Kushal told in their report that this straight line walk is about 11,240 km long, in which you will not cross any river or water source.

It starts from South-East China. In between it comes 13 countries. These include Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, France, Spain and finally the Sgres region of Portugal. This report was published in the arXiv preprint database in the year 2018.

Difficult to travel in a straight line on a round planet

According to Dan Cole, GIS Coordinator and Chief Cartographer of the Smithsonian Institution, Rohan and Kushal have also admitted in their report that the discovery of this path is a recreation work. You cannot travel in a straight line on a round planet. If you look at this path, it also takes a circular shape. Although this route is the longest hiking route in the world, where no river or water source has to be crossed.

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