In December we published an historic 'isochronic' map that showed how long it would take someone to travel from London to various corners of the British Empire in 1914.
Today, a new heat map has been created in the same style, showing how the world has become an awful lot smaller.
Charting how long it takes to reach even the most remote parts of the world, the 2016 map put together by Rome2Rio shows that very few places cannot be reached within 36 hours.
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In 1914 it took the best part of 20 days to reach America's west coast, or India, but today it takes just over 12 hours.
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The map shows that the whole of Europe can be accessed within half a day, and that only isolated parts of Greenland, Siberia, Africa and Australia cannot be reached within 36 hours.
1914
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In1914, the boundaries of Europe were some five days away.
So, while we love to complain about air travel, spare a thought for our brethren a century ago, spending weeks on ships to reach somewhere we can get to in a day.
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