Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less

[alister]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 21:57:57 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

> 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?"


Arctic Turn is a valid answer for all locations :-)


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