What are the shortest and longest crossing points of the Atlantic?
Inspired by a recent question. If I want to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a boat, what are the shortest and longest possible crossing sites?
Where crossing = going from one continent to another where there is no land bridge (i.e. You can walk from North America to South America)
I first thought about going from Southern tip of South America to Antarctica, this is around 600 miles (1,000KM). Not sure if that would 'count' as crossing the Atlantic the Pacific, both or something else.
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This is pretty easy to work out from online maps - I make the shortest distance 2520km from the Cape Verde Islands to Sao Jose, Brazil, or 2844km from Cap Skirring, Senegal if you want to go mainland-mainland. The longest would be going North-South - roughly 15500km from Greenland to Antartica...
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