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Across Europe – Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland – the Alps end to end to Nice – then round the Mediterranean to Spain and across the Pyrenees to Hendaye – 107 days, 3,000 miles with 600,000 feet of ascent.
Bushby walked over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. His destination was the Russian Embassy. At the end of the adventure, Bushby's visa ban was overturned and he was granted a letter of invitation from the Russian government. He was granted a visa in 2014, at the embassy, marking the end of his year long journey.
Length: 6,500 miles (10,500 km) Date: April 1982 – December 1983 Distance walked per month: 342 miles (550 km) Details: This peace walk of about 20 core people started from Seattle and walked across the U.S. to Washington, D.C. Members then flew to Ireland and walked through much of Europe, taking a boat from Greece to the Middle East.
A short section (800 metres or 0.5 miles) of the electric railway that linked Rimini (Italy) and San Marino City until 1944 has been restored. 674 São Tomé and Príncipe: 678 Solomon Islands: Small railways used to transport bananas and copra, all closed by 1970. 090 Somalia: Mogadishu–Villabruzzi Railway existed from 1914 to 1941 706 Suriname
Contemporary map of the 1858 transatlantic cable route. Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. . Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunication
Flanagan's Run is a 1982 novel written by Scottish athlete and author Tom McNab. [1]Set in 1931, the story covers an epic footrace across the continental United States. 2,000 runners run the 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York City competing for a prize of $150,000. [2]
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Miles Clark (3 November 1960 – 17 April 1993) was a sailor, journalist and writer from Northern Ireland. A few months before he died, Clark circumnavigated Europe through several of Russia's waterways which led him to winning the Cruising World Medal for Outstanding Seamanship.