You could say that the coastline of the island of Great Britain is infinitely long. White papers from our partners Siemens Smart Infrastructure New criteria for a new, smart building era Siemens Smart Infrastructure Microgrids — the future of energy management Siemens Smart Infrastructure How the smart office acts as a team player in crisis management Quite a lot of coastline for a small island.
But hold on a minute. When I calculated it again, I got an answer of 3, miles, as you can see below. This first map is represented by 2,, individual vertices which create the polygons you see in the image above. In the second map, only 0. Poll Privacy Policy Click the first image to enlarge it and then compare it to the next one and you will see some differences, but nothing too drastic. The coastline length is a function of how you measure it. How far would you have to travel?
I tried to calculate this based on a 1km distance from the shoreline, and concluded that it could be done by covering fewer than 2, miles — even though the coastline seems to be a lot longer. Be my guest. I then created files with fewer and fewer vertices retained, all the way down to a nonsensical shape which retained hardly any of the original points.
If anyone measured one part of the coast one day and returned a year later, they would never get the same measurement because of tides and human assumptions. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
When his father passed away at the end of , he was inspired to attempt this challenge that had been on his bucket list for a long time. Barely a few days in, Alex faced his first test. Hurricane Bertha decided to visit the UK just as he was camped out on Dungeness, a highly exposed spit of shingle extending out into the English channel. He squirrelled away in his tent for two days, only coming out to re-peg it. In the Isle of Wight, he woke up on the beach covered in sandhoppers, which remained in his rucksack and on his person for a good week afterwards.
In Cornwall, he once found himself locked in a church overnight, unsure whether someone would return to open up the following morning or not until the following Sunday.
But the road has been full of the beautiful and the breathtaking, too: butterflies flitting over the cliffs of New Haven; the wild goats, castles and church ruins of the Jurassic Coast; the wooded valleys, waterfalls and cobbled villages of Devon; a dappled sunrise over the picturesque Cornish port of Newlyn; and the sight of a pod of dolphins leaping out of calm waters on the Welsh coast.
My walk around mainland Britain totalled 6, miles and took days over five years. I would walk in sections of two to nine weeks, before returning home to edit the pictures, earn money from selling the prints, and prepare for the next section.
I walked an average of 15 miles a day, in which I allowed for three hours of photography. I sustained this rhythm for five years through all seasons, which made the photography more diverse. I mostly slept in a tent to save money but also because I felt that sleeping on the soil connected me to the landscape and meant I could be best-positioned for dawn and dusk photography.
I carried a pack of up to 20kg on my back and was self-sufficient in terms of food, fuel and power for five days at a time. Soon after, I reached the chalk cliffs of the Seven Sisters in East Sussex, where walking along the rolling grass felt like flying above the sea. By the time I got to the coast in Devon, dramatic cliffs had become the norm; and in Cornwall the coast path is so vertiginous it often involves hundreds of metres of daily ascent.
Clockwise from top left: Camping equipment, camera and rations for four days of self-sufficiency; Quintin drying out at camp near Point Knap, Kintyre; drinks party on the beach at Ferring in Sussex. The exhilaration of walking across the Severn Bridge was palpable, as it marked one-quarter of the journey done and also my entry into Wales.
My diet was now supplemented by bara brith fruit loaf and Welsh cakes rather than Cornish pasties.
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