SortStack #1175 — 2029-08-27

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A banana 26 cm

   The banana you eat is a sterile clone; nearly all exported ones are a single variety called the Cavendish.

2. Veryovkina Cave (depth) 2.2 km

   The deepest known cave on Earth, explorers need weeks underground to reach its bottom and climb back out.

3. The Panama Canal 85 km

   Ships are lifted 26 metres above sea level by locks, then lowered again, crossing a continent without touching the ocean between.

4. Great Britain, Land's End to John o' Groats 970 km

   The classic end-to-end journey covers roughly 1,400 kilometres by road, a favourite challenge for cyclists and walkers.

5. The Yellow River, China (length) 5.5K km

   Nicknamed 'China's Sorrow', its devastating floods have killed more people than perhaps any other natural feature.

6. The Amazon River (length) 6.4K km

   It discharges so much water that it freshens the Atlantic Ocean more than 100 kilometres out from its mouth.

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