Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less

[Adam Funk]

On 2014-05-01, Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 4/30/2014 7:46 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> It also works if your starting point is (precisely) the north pole.  I
>> believe that's the canonical answer to the riddle, since there are no
>> bears in Antarctica.
>
> For the most part, there are no bears within a mile of the North Pole 
> either. "they are rare north of 88°" (ie, 140 miles from pole).
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bears
> They mostly hunt in or near open water, near the coastlines.
>
> I find it amusing that someone noticed and posted an alternate, 
> non-canonical  solution. How might a bear be near the south pole? As 
> long as we are being creative, suppose some jokester mounts a near 
> life-size stuffed black bear, made of cold-tolerant artificial 
> materials, near but not at the South Pole. The intent is to give fright 
> to naive newcomers. Someone walking in a radius 1/2pi circle about the 
> pole might easily see it.

OK, change bear to bird & the question to "What kind of bird is it?"


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