From 1519 until 1522, Ferdinand Magellan's Victoria was the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the globe. (Magellan himself did not survive the entire voyage.) Can you tell me which part of the ship traveled the greatest distance? Click below for the answer.
If you remembered the Rope Around the Earth puzzle I posted a few months ago, you probably got this one pretty quickly. Since the world is roughly spherical, the tip of the tallest mast of the ship would have traveled the greatest distance in sailing around the globe. Imagine if a boat sailed in a perfect circle around the equator. The part of the boat deepest under water (the keel) would create a smaller circle than the tip of the mast several feet above the water, so the tip of the mast travels the greatest distance during the voyage.
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