Ten Times Round the Globe.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 31 July 1914, Page 2

Ten Times Round the Globe.

The cable lines of the world amount,

in a grand total, to over two hundred and sixty thousand miles..

more than enough to draw a girdle ten times around the earth at the Equator. This work has all been accomplished since 1865. The long-

est line is from England to Aus-

tralia by way of the Cape of Good Hope, 15,000 milesf The bus-

iest section of the sea bottom is, of course, the North Atlantic, seven-

teen cables centring in the St. Lawrence section and New York. The lo ingest stretch without a relay station is from Vancouver to Fanning Island in the North Pacific, 'midway between Austral in and

Vancouver, 3,600 miles, made neces-

sary by the rule of the British Government forbidding cable landings on any save British soil.