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Wow. The coastline of Africa is 18,950 miles (30,500 km), so That’s like looping around the content nearly 3 times.

Here’s what I found on that site:

> I’m doing an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit right now. Come on over to Reddit.com and ask me any question you have about my three year, 54,000 mile and 35 country expedition around Africa.

It’s all on the table – safety, money, health, budget, visas, route, people, animals, the Jeep.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/brhbst/i_drove_my_jee...




Or he just looped around the coastline once at a tighter resolution than your source of 30,500 km

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

(Also thanks for the AMA link)


The coastline paradox is cute, but any route using coastal roads will be shorter than any reasonable coastline estimate, for obvious reasons.


Plus the "resolution" of the coast is limited by the size of humans.

The coastline paradox is much more of a measurement problem then a physical one.


Feel free to ask me any question you don't see answered there.

And Yes, I did some zig-zagging! - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4h0X_Fq_G/




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