© 2020 Jerry D. Patillo
If you would like to circumnavigate the southern hemisphere on a flat earth, maybe you would like to visit the following destinations:
- Sydney, Australia (SYD)
- Santiago, Chile (SCL)
- Johannesburg, South Africa (JNB)
If you’re a flat earther – someone who believes the earth is round, but flat like a pizza – then maybe you would choose something like the itinerary in Fig. C.
However, since modern commercial aircraft can “only” fly up to about 19 hours and 10,000 miles (SIN-JFK)*, you would probably have to choose layovers in:
- Los Angeles (LAX) or San Francisco (SFO)
- Dakar, Senegal (DKR or DSS) or Lagos, Nigeria (LOS)
- Delhi, India (DEL)
or nearby airports.
*[https://www.emirates247.com/news/the-longest-flights-in-the-world-2018-10-11-1.674088, accessed December 2020]
So, your itinerary could look something like this, as an example:
- SYD-SCL
- SYD-LAX 7488 miles, 15h29m
- LAX-SCL 5569 miles, 11h38m
- SCL-JNB
- SCL-LOS 5565 miles, 11h38m
- LOS-JNB 2803 miles, 6h06m
- JNB-SYD
- JNB-DEL 4967 miles, 10h26m
- DEL-SYD 6476 miles, 13h27m
- Total: 32,868 miles, 68h44m (actual flying time, NOT including the layover and stopover times!)
As you can see, the flights above would really be long-haul. The flights would average about 5700 miles and 11 hours 40 minutes each.
You could split them up into shorter, but more numerous flights, as shown below. You could come up with a different itinerary, but the following is just an example:
- SYD-SCL
- SYD-HNL 5067 miles, 10h38m
- HNL-LAX 2556 miles, 4h54m
- LAX-LIM 4167 miles, 8h50m
- LIM-SCL 1524 miles, 3h33m
- SCL-JNB
- SCL-BEL 2635 miles, 5h46m
- BEL-DSS 2417 miles, 5h20m
- DSS-LOS 1492 miles, 3h29m
- LOS-JNB 2803 miles, 6h06m
- JNB-SYD
- JNB-DOH 3862 miles, 8h13m
- DOH-DEL 1589 miles, 3h41m
- DEL-CAN 2272 miles, 5h03m
- CAN-SYD 4664 miles, 9h50m
- Total: 35,048 miles, 75h23m (actual flying time, NOT including the layover and stopover times!)
Flat Earth Circum S Hemi.docx