Distance and Displacement

Resources

• distance
  • The man who walked around the world. Dave Kunst is the first person verified to have completely circled the entire land mass of the Earth on foot (23,255 km in 4 years).
  • Get Bent: Coast to coast by recumbent bicycle. Glenn Elert. Rockaway Beach, Oregon to Rockaway Beach, New York (5,711 km in 41 days.)
  • Voyager mission status. JPL. NASA. The twin Voyager spacecraft are the most distant human-made objects (> 120 au and still going).
  • A quarter of a world away: female humpback whale moves 10,000 km between breeding areas. Peter T. Stevick, et al. Biology Letters. Vol. 7 No. 2 (April 2011).
• tall buildings
  • General
    • Building Facts & Figures. Kristiaan Van Ermengem. A View on Cities.
    • Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
    • Skyscraper Museum. New York.
  • records
    • Burj Khalifa (برج خليفة‬‎), Dubai, UAE. The tallest structure in the world (829.8 m)
    • Canadian National Tower, Toronto, Canada. The tallest structure in North America (553.3 m).
    • One World Trade Center, New York, USA. The tallest building in North America (541.3 m).
    • Ostankino Tower (Останкинская телебашня), Moscow, Russia. The tallest structure in Europe (540.1 m).
    • Mercury City Tower (Меркурий Сити Тауэр), Moscow, Russia. The tallest building in Europe (338.8 m).
    • Q1, Surfers Paradise (a suburb of Gold Coast), Australia. The tallest building in Australia (322.5 m).
    • Gran Torre Santiago, Santiago, Chile. The tallest building in South America (300 m).
    • Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. The tallest building in Africa (223 m).
  • classics
    • Empire State Building, New York, USA. The tallest building in the world from 1931 to 1970 (381.0 m roof, 443.2 m antenna).
    • Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel), Paris, France. Tallest structure in the world from 1889 to 1930 (312 m roof, 330 m antenna).
    • Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA. Tallest structure in the world from 1884 to 1889 (169.3 m). Still the tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk.
    • Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, Lincoln, England. Tallest building in the world from 1311 to 1549 (83 m current roof, 160 m former central spire). The first structure to excede the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
    • Great Pyramid of Giza. The tallest structure in the world for 3,800 years (146.5 m ancient, 138.8 m current).