Letter: Round the pole

Published 13 March 1999

From Roland Griffin

I agree with John Little
(Letters, 30 January, p 50)
about circumnavigation. So-called “round the world” yacht races
are really races around Antarctica.

Darwin, Australia

Issue no. 2177 published 13 March 1999

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