I can’t claim any record , but a few years ago it was discussed on a radio station. In particular they wanted to hear of anyone that had never been out of the Country (England). Amazingly one person rang up to say that his Grandad had not been out of his region (Cheshire) by my reckoning he cannot have travelled more than 50 miles from his birthplace.
A mere 4784 miles or 7700 kilometres between Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.
I have in fact met people who were born in my province and have never stepped foot outside it, even to the USA, which from my house is a 50 minute drive if the traffic’s not bad. I find that amazing.
San Francisco CA to Buenos Aires - 6451.08
San Francisco CA to Hong Kong - 6892.90
San Francisco CA to Sydney - 7419.05
San Francisco CA to Delhi - 7668.21
San Francisco CA to Singapore - 8433.89
I really miss my job at MS - I had really got a chance to travel!!
I have a coworker that has never been outside of New England (and not even all 6 states). He could break that at any time with a 2 hour drive but somehow it just hasn’t come up yet. I had classmates in high school who had never traveled further than our field trips (about 30 miles). One had never been to Texas and the school was 1 mile from the border.
Actually the astronauts who traveled the farthest from the Earth never walked on the Moon. The crew of the Apollo VIII mission–Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders–traveled 377,349 km from the Earth. As the Earth was rotating you’d have to calculate the relative distances at the time of apogee to figure out which of the three was truly farthest, but at that distance it would be a rounding error. None of those three ever made it to the surface of the Moon; Lovell, of course, commanded the ill-fated Apollo XIII mission that was planned to land at a site in the Fra Mauro highlands but that landing was aborted due to a fire on-board the Service Module.
I have a friend that was born in Hawaii, who returned from some missionary work in Africa. I have to check with her, since if she was in Botswana she might win.
Beirut, Lebanon to Christchurch, NZ (only stopped in the airport): 10052 miles, which is about the maximum I can achieve, since the antipode of Beirut is somewhere in the southern Indian ocean. Furthest I’ve left the airport would be Fiji, which is about 9,900 miles.
I’d be aiming for a spot in the Indian Ocean. It looks like the nearest land is the Kerguelen Islands (11,552 Miles). They’re a bit remote, but the restaurant there gets great reviews!
The closest land to Portland, Oregon’s antipode seems to be some island int eh French Southern and Antarctic Lands that Google Maps doesn’t bother to name.