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Distance & Displacement

Resources

distance
- First Verified Walk Around the Earth, Dave Kunst (23,255 km)
- Get Bent: Coast to Coast by Recumbent Bicycle, Glenn Elert (5,711 km)
- Voyager Mission Operations Status Report, NASA (> 110 AU and still going)
height
- Building Facts & Figures, A View on Cities, Kristiaan Van Ermengem
- Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
- Skyscraper Museum, New York
- Burj Khalifa (برج خليفة), Dubai
- Canadian National Tower, Toronto
- Carlton Centre, Johannesburg
- Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel), Paris
- Parque Central Complex, Caracas
- Q1, Surfers Paradise
- Naberezhnaya Tower (Башня на Набережной), Moscow
- Willis Tower, Chicago
- World Trade Center, New York

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