We have to be accurate about this, otherwise we become as silly as Flat Earthers.įAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) has opened a can of worms with respect to their use of ATW specifically for balloons. The media had no idea about the suggested distinction between “Around The World” and “circumnavigation” and they used the latter all the time. We’ve been through this once before with Sarah Outen’s attempted journey around the northern hemisphere. One does not go around a sphere by staying in one hemisphere, whichever that may be. Any journey confined to a single hemisphere cannot be called an “Around The World” journey. ![]() In this debate with the Ocean Rowing Society’s Tatiana Rezvaya-Crutchlow, Erden makes a plea for accuracy.Įruç: Taking nothing away from the immensity of Fedor Konyukhov‘s and Oliver Hicks‘s latest expeditions, my position is to call their chosen routes a “row around Antarctica” or a “row around the Southern Hemisphere.” The earth is a sphere. However, both terms are often used in a much looser way. It does not require a traveler to pass through a pair of antipodes, or diametrically opposite points on the earth. The Ocean Rowing Society defines Around the World as a journey that covers all longitudes and covers at least 20,000km. * passes through at least one pair of antipodes ExWeb Ambassador Erden Eruç takes issue with this description.Ī circumnavigation, he points out, is an around-the world-journey on a route which Media accounts (and some adventurers’ websites) call such endeavours a circumnavigation or an Around the World row. Hot on his heels, Olly Hicks of the UK will follow a similar route, shown below. Shortly, Russia’s Fedor Konyukhov will leave on a 27,000km row around the Southern Ocean. ![]() ExWeb Ambassador Erden Eruç Debates with Tatiana Rezvaya-Crutchlow of the Ocean Rowing Society
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