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Wow. The coastline of Africa is 18,950 miles (30,500 km), so That’s like looping around the content nearly 3 times. Here’s what I found on that site: > I’m do
by MichaelApproved 7y ago
Wow. The coastline of Africa is 18,950 miles (30,500 km), so That’s like looping around the content nearly 3 times.
Here’s what I found on that site:
> I’m doing an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit right now.
Come on over to Reddit.com and ask me any question you have about my three year, 54,000 mile and 35 country expedition around Africa.
It’s all on the table – safety, money, health, budget, visas, route, people, animals, the Jeep.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/brhbst/i_drove_my_jeep_around_africa_reddit_said_i_would/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/brhbst/i_drove_my_jee...
- grecy 7y agoFeel free to ask me any question you don't see answered there. And Yes, I did some zig-zagging! - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4h0X_Fq_G/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4h0X_Fq_G/
- smeyer 7y agoOr he just looped around the coastline once at a tighter resolution than your source of 30,500 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox (Also thanks for the AMA link)
- samatman 7y agoThe coastline paradox is cute, but any route using coastal roads will be shorter than any reasonable coastline estimate, for obvious reasons.
- penagwin 7y agoPlus the "resolution" of the coast is limited by the size of humans. The coastline paradox is much more of a measurement problem then a physical one.
- spoovy 7y agoNot trying to be argumentative just mentioning as an ex-GIS guy that it's impossible to meaningfully measure any coastline. Read about the coastline paradox it's quite interesting.