"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"Montblack" wrote:
("Aaron Coolidge" wrote)
I worked with a guy who flew this route, round trip, twice, in a C172
with factory "long range tanks". It took a while!


Is California to Alaska, then over to Russia and down that edge of The
Rim an option? Is anybody using that route these days?

Think south! Here's a fun (i.e. not to be taken seriously) suggestion:

Head down through South America, to the southern tip of Argentina at
Ushuaia, hop from there to Antartica to:

Palmer Antarctic base (U.S.) on the Antarctic Peninsula,
San Martin base (Argentina) on the Antarctic Peninsula,
Belgrano III base (Argentina) on the Weddell Sea coast,
Amundsen-Scott base (U.S.) at the South Pole,
McMurdo base (U.S.) on the Ross Sea coast,
Dumont d'Urville base (France) on Antarctic Sea coast,
Macquarie Island (Australia) in the South Pacific,
Hobart in Tasmania,
Adelaide in Australia,
and finally to Perth.

Here's a map that shows those bases:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/islan...ctic_pol97.jpg

I have no idea what the actual lengths of any of the legs of that trip are
- just eye-balled it using the above map. You'd still probably need long
range tanks - and skis! :-)

Probably be faster to go the other way around Antartica given the hurricane
force winds that commonly blow west to east...

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