So what is the FE explanation for the time it takes to sail around Antarctica vs. the time it takes to sail around Australia? It takes a large ship sailing 24 knots about 15 days to sail around Antarctica. The same ship takes around 20 days to sail around Australia.
How can that be, given the FE coastline of Antarctica looks to be at least 25X greater than the coastline of Australia? Is there some explanation for this mystery?
Where are you getting these numbers of sailing around Antarctica from?
The least amount of days of allegedly sailing around Antarctica I have heard of is 25-30 days at 24 knots.
Also 102 days in a sail of 7 knots.
It is about 16,400 miles allegedly.
Highway 1 which encircles the coast of Australia is about 10,127 miles. Sailing around might push that to 12,000 or so maybe?
so sailing at 27.6MPH (24 knots) the distance of 12,000 miles is about 434 hours which turns into about 18.11 days...
What im trying to show is that your number in this statement are erroneous, and also the alleged distances that far out to the "edge" cannot be accurately measured because no one actually travels that far since there is nothing to do down there.
People travel from continent to continent for trade and business.
It is easy to make up numbers and distances where not a lot of traffic is present.
Don't fall for these number games unless you try to work them out yourself.