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Travel records

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(Idea purloined from User:ThunderingTyphoons! who shamelessly stole it from Andrewssi2)

My records Place[Note 1] Figure
Northernmost Iceland Akureyri 65.74° N
Southernmost Australia Great Otway National Park 38.81° S
Easternmost Australia Bondi Beach 151.28° E
Westernmost Iceland Reykjavík 59.50° W
Closest to the equator (Crossed equator by sea 3 times and by air at least 25 times)
Kenya Jomo Kenyatta Airport, Nairobi (transit) 1.32° S
Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore (transit) 1.34° N
Accra 5.33° N
Closest to the Tropic of Cancer Algeria Tanezrouft - 250 km north of Bordj Badji Mokhtar 0 km (0 mi)
Closest to the Tropic of Capricorn South Africa 30 km North of Pietersburg (now Polokwane) 0 km (0 mi)
Highest Switzerland St Gotthard Pass 2,106 m (6,909 ft) above sea level
Highest home South Africa Yeoville, Johannesburg 1,774 m (5,820 ft) above sea level
Lowest home England Bridport, Dorset 7 m (23 ft) above sea level
Lowest South Africa — ERPM Gold Mine 3,200 m (10,500 ft) below ground level / 1,600 m (5,200 ft) below sea level
Furthest inland Algeria Bordj Moktar 1,600 km (990 mi) from Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean
Furthest from land MV Arundel Castle: South Atlantic Ocean 1,330 km (830 mi) from Angola while travelling Southampton to Cape Town by sea
My record journeys Place[Note 1] Figure
Longest flight England Heathrow Airport (LHR IATA) — Singapore Singapore (SGP IATA) -
Astralia Sydney Airport (SYD IATA) — England Heathrow Airport (LHR IATA)		 10,877 km (6,759 mi) (Single sector)
17,018 km (10,574 mi) (Multiple sectors)
Longest sea voyage England Southampton — South Africa Durban 12,765 km (7,932 mi)
Longest rail journey South Africa Cape Town — Johannesburg (distance)
South Africa Colenso — Cape Town (time)		 1,397 km (868 mi)
55 hrs
Longest road journey Ghana Accra — Tunisia Tunis 4,500 km (2,800 mi)
Longest border crossing Mali Tessalit / Algeria Bordj Moktar 24 hrs / 120 km (75 mi)
Age first border crossing England Harwich - Netherlandss Hoek of Holland about 6 weeks (less than 7weeks 2 days)
First crossed the Equator MV Arundel Castle: Southampton - Cape Town about 12 weeks old

Notes

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The flags and place names shown here are the flags and place names in use at the time I made the trip in question.