![]() Round the world races, such as the Vendée Globe or the Whitbread/Volvo/TOR end up using a definition that basically says you need to cross every line of longitude and cross the equator an even number of times. Most definitions are implicitly assuming the current coordinate system. The definition of sailing around the world is more than a bit rubbery. For our purposes what matters is the route, not the submergence. See also this article about a circumnavigation of ~26,000 miles by a submerged US nuclear submarine. So 4 main routes of WAG 35,000 miles that will take a very long time to sail in a pea green boat. So you could “weave” between the Americas and Europe / Asia / Africa running either east-to-west or west-to-east and doing your northbound leg in either the Atlantic or the Pacific. Which eventually leads to being able to go in a sinusoidal pattern like North in the Pacific to the Arctic, West across the top of Asia & Europe to the Atlantic, then South to the bottom of South America, then west again into the Pacific and north to your start point. Good luck with that.Īs the Arctic warms up it becomes increasingly possible to also circumnavigate the Earth up there north of Canada and Russia. This discovery would not, by itself, prove there wasn’t an edge to the Flat Earth they’d need to set off in a different direction to find it though. So they’d discover there’s a really big mostly-ice island out there in the ocean, but they’d also know (assuming they are in fact capable of valid evidence-based geometric thinking, a pretty tall order for flat-earthers) that what they found was not the edge of a Flat Earth. ![]() If one was paying attention, one would notice passing the same bays and rock outcrops as they had passed 10,000 miles ago. Without much zigzagging north or south.īut the coast of Antarctica is not all just an endless nondescript white cliff. As said, you can go around Antarctica over and over.
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