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What counts as across? In New Zealand, following Auckland's Portage Road would pretty much do it: https://www.google.com/maps/@-36.9356481,174.8371974,440m/dat
by mkl 5y ago
What counts as across? In New Zealand, following Auckland's Portage Road would pretty much do it: https://www.google.com/maps/@-36.9356481,174.8371974,440m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-36.9356481,174.8371974,440m/da... (zoom out to see why)
Australia though? I suppose you could count the northern tip of Queensland, but it doesn't seem very "across".
- dmurray 5y agoFirst one doesn't look any "worse" than Geowizard's crossing of Norway [0]. Second one feels like it's not in the spirit of things, but I have trouble coming up with an adequately rigorous definition. I was thinking of saying Norway and New Zealand look OK because in both cases you start on the eastern border/coast and finish on the western one, unlike Queensland where you are still in the northeast by any definition. This gets close to my intent, but to make this work we have to accept that NZ has multiple east coasts, or a single discontinuous one. Why is it OK to cross the North Island in NZ, but not OK to cross some tiny island in Australia (e.g. cross King Island [1] from west to east)? [0] https://imgur.com/gallery/gistDx1 https://imgur.com/gallery/gistDx1 [1] https://goo.gl/maps/Q5JEN1j3U4sBMEvf6 https://goo.gl/maps/Q5JEN1j3U4sBMEvf6
- SiempreViernes 5y agoI mean, it's ok to cross King Island? But plainly that's just crossing a particular island and not Australia proper. Not sure what's so strange about having two coasts if you've already accepted that New Zealand is composed of at least two important islands.
- rbonvall 5y agoSince this is done for fun and not for any kind of official recognition, it counts if you think it does.