GREATEST DISTANCE FROM LAND.
The farthest distance a ship can sail from land i*s 1200 miles. This may seem strange, for the Atlantic Ocean is more than 4000 miles wide, and the Pacific even wider than that. But there are islands in these oceans, and never can a ship be more than 1200 miles from some point of land. The spot of great esc distance from land, is in the Pacific Ocean, halfway between New Zealand and South America. One and a half million pilchards were recently landed at Plymouth in one day.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)
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93GREATEST DISTANCE FROM LAND. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)
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