Around the World in Eighty Days

Phileas Fogg's wager from Jules Verne's novel of 1872: round the world and back to the Reform Club in eighty days.

London, Paris, the new tunnel under the Alps, Suez, Aden, Bombay, a railway that stops in the jungle and an elephant, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, a typhoon off Shanghai, Yokohama, the 180th meridian, San Francisco, the Pacific railroad over the Rockies, an attack on the prairie, New York, a steamer burned for fuel in the Atlantic, Liverpool and home. 25 stops, 6 real facts, 3 dangers.

The world is shrunk to 800 km so that about 80 typical days of commits take you round, like Fogg. The stops keep their real proportions, on a real world map (Natural Earth) laid out as a strip: London at both ends, and the day you gain going east is waiting in mid-Pacific.