WORLD RECORD

The Danish -------- by Simon Ekholm have made an official calculation of the total distance covered by the G2 Expedition, as follows:

Simon Ekholm write:
We have now calculated the total distance from the drop zone down to the southernmost position, back to the drop zone and onwards to Kap Morris Jesup. It is computed as geodetic distances between the way-points (the geodetic distance between two points is by definition the shortest one; it is not entirely coinciding with the straight line between the points). on the WGS84 ellipsoid. Topographic information on the bedrock part is not included in the computation as the precise route is not known and as the height information outside the ice sheet is not always sufficiently reliable. On the ice sheet, a simple geometrical argument shows that even though the journey is distance only, even for rather steep slopes on the marginal ice sheet. These factors are not taken into account in this computation. On this background, I have not found it fair to determine the accumulated distances with more than 1 km accuracy. The day to day results on the ice can however well be calculated with an accuracy of 100 m due to the smoothness of the ice sheet. The results are then as follows:

Drop Zone - Turning Point:	83 km
Turning Point - Drop Zone:	74 km
Drop Zone - Cape Morris Jesup	2771 km
Total distance	2928 km

The old world record of 2,172 kilometres were set by the two Englishmen Randhulf Finnes and Mark Shroud in their attempt to cross the Antarctic in 1993.

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