trivia steve fossett

just a bit of trivia from the age letters to the editor from F.Hainsworth thought it was cute
"The question is, has SF brave balloon circumnavigated the world? The worls is 40,000ks around the waistIt seems Fossettflew about 45degrees south laatitude,where the circumferenceof the earth is about 25,000 ks. Carrying this point forward one of our Antarctic scientists could circumnavigate the earth in a minute by walking around the south pole(holding a party balloon)
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