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1. It's a long, long way north to this stop on my trip. I headed for Greenland, and then took a short boat trip to stand on a wild rocky shore, on the most northerly piece of solid land in the world. Where was I?
2. It's a long, long way down to my next stop - or would be if the deepest borehole in the world was big enough to admit a person. Located on the Kola Peninsula, in which country is the "Kola Superdeep SG3" borehole?
3. If I wanted to actually go a long, long way down below the surface of the Earth in person, I would need to visit the world's deepest mineshaft, at the TauTona Mine in South Africa. What is mined there?
4. It's a long, long way up now, so I decided to take the train. I eventually arrived at the highest railway station in the world, in Qinghai-Tibet. Where am I?
5. It's a long, long way up to Lake Titicaca, which is the highest navigable lake in the world, but I feel like going that little bit higher and finding the actual highest lake. One candidate for the title is in a crater on the slopes of the world's tallest volcano, Ojos del Salado. Where is this?
6. It's a long, long way down to the deepest point of the ocean, the Challenger Deep. Located at one end of the seabed Mariana Trench, which two islands are the closest land to the Challenger Deep?
7. It's a long, long way to go to 'get away from it all', but off I went to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited islands in the world. I then decided that I didn't need people, and wanted to get away from everyone else in the world, and headed for the most remote uninhabited island there is - where did I go?
8. It's a long, long way to nowhere at all! That is if you take "nowhere at all" to be the point where the Prime Meridian crosses the Equator, at 0,0 degrees latitude and longitude. This point is in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Gulf of Guinea, just over 600 kilometres south from the capital city of Ghana. Which city is this?
9. It's a long, long way to go to look at fish, but off I went, to visit the most northerly coral reef in the world. Off the coast of which country did I end up?
10. It's a long, long way to the 'Pole of Inaccessibility.' This is the name given to the point on land furthest from the ocean, and the point in the ocean furthest from any land. The Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility is also called Point Nocean. What name is given to the Pacific Pole of Inaccessibility?
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