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> A very different scale Anchorage to Belize: 5777 miles London to Kolkata: 5695 miles
by mapt 9mo ago
> A very different scale
Anchorage to Belize: 5777 miles
London to Kolkata: 5695 miles
- tavavex 9mo agoI actually can't find any evidence that there ever existed a direct Anchorage-Belize trip. The parent comment implies that the company merely offered routes that extended to these destinations, but not necessarily as a single trip.
- consumer451 9mo agoThat is indeed what I was trying to imply. Although, as someone who grew up on the West Coast, I have to say that similarity in distance is still a bit surprising to me.
- skrebbel 9mo agoWhich of the two distances would you have guessed is further?
- consumer451 9mo agoAcross Eurasia. There might be some cultural/imagination thing going on. I have driven from British Columbia to Tijuana. I cannot even imagine how that would be across Eurasia.
- skrebbel 9mo agoRight! In my mind the American feels “obviously” further mainly due to how insanely far Anchorage is from, well, everywhere.
- trueismywork 9mo agoHow did you compute the distances? Geodesic?
- mapt 9mo agoGoogle Maps. One of them is the walking distance, the other the driving distance, because the other estimates hung. But they both follow roads.
- nephihaha 9mo agoMost of Anchorage to Belize would be within two or three countries: USA, Canada and Mexico, and two main official languages English and Spanish. (Obviously numerous indigenous minority languages.) London to Calcutta would have been much more diverse, but even within the Indian leg you would encountered more languages...