Geographic inaccuracies found in DD&Co

[Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr.]

Gerd Syllwasschy <gerd.syllwasschy at web.de> wrote:

Til: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Emne: Re: Geographic inaccuracies found in DD&Co
Dato: 06/05/03 07:57

> In the last panel on page 14 in Norwegian
> Doanld Duck & Co 13/1991 there is a sign
> saying "Langtvekkistan, 99950 km". Using such
> a number in that context seems ridiculous to
> me, because that distance is close to 2.5 times
> the distance around the globe at equator.
>
>> Well, if this is a road sign, it will usually
>> *not* give the air-line distance. So where's
>> the contradiction? ;-)

1)
That distance is still way to long for that to be realistic.

2)
Given that Duckburg is located in the North-American western coast and that
"Langvekkistan" is located in sentral-Asia (that's where countries with
names ending with "-stan" normally are located) the distance would be 9995
km rather than 99950 km. And in that case some of the distance would also be
at sea which indeed means air-line distance for that part of the distance.

Sigvald :-)