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Cardinal point records

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Other miscellaneous records

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This could go on, but I will hopefully add more to this:

  • Longest flight – SYD IATA - ZRH IATA (40 hours, inclusive of layover)
  • Closest to equator – Singapore Sentosa, Singapore (≈1°)
  • Highest point in elevation – USA California Yosemite National Park or New Zealand Westland Tai Poutini National Park (> 3,100 metres)
  • Lowest point in elevation (land) – United States California Badwater Basin, Death Valley (-87 metres)
  • Lowest point in elevation (including subsea tunnels) – Norway Oslofjord Tunnel, Oslo (-134 metres)*
  • Longest (singular) train ride – Brisbane - Sydney (15 hours, including delays)
  • Longest coach ride (day) – BairnsdaleCanberra via Bombala, then onwards to Sydney (10 hours 20 min, not inclusive of transfer time)
  • Longest coach ride (night) – Melbourne-Sydney (11 hours)
  • Longest bus ride – NewcastleDungog return (4 hr 15 min)
  • Longest journey by bike – Sydney CBD - Parramatta (60+ kilometres)
  • Longest trail by foot (timewise) – multiple trails, some of which are private (45 km, 4 days)
  • Longest distance on unsealed roads – 253 km (Mungo National Park)
  • Highest temperature – 49 °C (120 °F) (Baker)
  • Lowest temperature – −9 °C (16 °F) (Berlin and Poznan)
  • Fastest overland – 321 km/h (199 mph) on Renfe's Barcelona–Madrid HSR route

*I've been in many subsea Norwegian road tunnels, but cannot find the depth for all tunnels that I've visited