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