|
|
Miles |
|
Kilometres |
Straits of Gibraltar |
|
9 |
|
14.5 |
Simplon Tunnel |
|
12.3 |
|
19.8 |
Length of Loch Lomond |
|
21 |
|
33 |
Dover to Calais |
|
22 |
|
35 |
Channel Tunnel (opened 1994) |
|
31.1 |
|
50.1 |
Seikan Tunnel (opened 1988) |
|
33.5 |
|
53.8 |
Gotthard Base Tunnel (opened 2016) |
|
34.7 |
|
55.8 |
Panama Canal (shore to shore) |
|
40 |
|
64 |
Panama Canal (including sea channels) |
|
51 |
|
82 |
Berlin Wall (the concrete barrier) |
|
66 |
|
106 |
Hadrian's Wall |
|
73 |
|
117 |
Greatest distance from the sea in the UK |
|
75 |
|
120 |
Berlin Wall (in total) |
|
96 |
|
154 |
Suez Canal |
|
120 |
|
193 |
Pheidippedes ran (from Marathon to Sparta) |
|
150 |
|
241 |
River Thames |
|
215 |
|
346 |
River Severn |
|
220 |
|
354 |
Pennine Way |
|
250 |
|
402 |
Land's End to John o'Groats, as the crow flies |
|
603 |
|
970 |
Land's End to John o'Groats: shortest road distance |
|
855 |
|
1,375 |
Great Wall of China (from end to end as the crow flies, approximately)
|
|
1,400 |
|
2,250 |
Great Barrier Reef |
|
1,600 |
|
2,574 |
River Nile |
|
4,135 |
|
6,654 |
Andes |
|
4,300 |
|
6,920 |
Trans–Siberian Railway |
|
5,772 |
|
9,289 |
Diameter of the Earth at the Equator |
|
7,930 |
|
12,762 |
Circumference of the Earth at the Equator |
|
24,901 |
|
40,074 |
Earth to Moon |
|
240,000 |
|
386,241 |
Earth to Sun |
|
93,000,000 |
|
149,000,000 |
Light–year |
|
5.879 x 1012 |
|
9.461 x 1012 |