SortStack #2862 — 2034-04-10

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. A ten-pin bowling pin 38 cm

   Pins are coated in tough plastic and weigh just enough to scatter dramatically yet stand back up reliably.

3. Mount Fuji, Japan 3.8 km

   Though it looks serene, Fuji is an active volcano that last erupted in 1707, dusting distant Tokyo with ash.

4. The Channel Tunnel 50.5 km

   Trains run through three parallel tubes beneath the seabed, with a smaller service tunnel between them for safety.

5. The island of Crete (length) 260 km

   Home to Europe's oldest known city, Crete's Minoan palaces had running water and flushing toilets 3,500 years ago.

6. New Zealand's South Island (length) 840 km

   It is home to fewer than two million people but more than ten times as many sheep.

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