The ‘Wapusk Trail’ road (752 km (467 miles) in length) constructed each year between Gillam, Manitoba, and Peawanuk, Ontario, Canada, is thought to be the longest seasonal winter road in the world. Constructed each January on snow and ice, it gives road access for a few weeks to remote settlements around Hudson Bay until the warmer March weather forces its closure. These settlements are normally only accessible by air. Wapusk is Cree (a Canadian First Nation) for Polar Bear.
The longest yoga marathon lasted 29 h 4 m and was achieved by Michael Schwab (Austria) during the event Vienna Recordia, in Vienna, Austria, on 26-27 September 2009. Mr Schwab finished the yoga marathon on stage at the Vienna Recordia.
The longest yoga marathon by a female lasted 32 hours and was achieved by Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow (Canada) at Om West Holistic Centre, Quebec, Canada, on 2-3 August 2010. Yasmin completed a total of 1008 different yoga postions during her marathon and received a lot of media coverage. The attempt started at 9am on 2nd August and finished at 1700 hours on 3rd August 2010.
The longest working pacemaker still in use was fitted into Lesley Iles (UK) on 15 January 1982 and last confirmed on 4th April 2007 to be operating as normal.
Strengths, at nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
Oðblgshezi (pronounced oth-bleg-SHEH-zi) is a “language” based on English words that can be typed with the digits of a calculator. “Letters” are keyed in and the words read by turning the calculator upside down. The longest words using the nine available letters from traditional English alphabet (I, Z, E, h, S, G, L, B and O) are ILLEGIBLE and EGGShELLS; however, the language’s creators have introduced a 10th letter – the Anglo Saxon eth or ð, using the numeral 9) – to present a TH
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Lengthy concatenations and some compound, agglutinative and nonce words can be written in the closed-up style of a single word. The longest known example is a compound ‘word’ of 195 Sanskrit characters (transliterating to 428 letters in the Roman alphabet) describing the region near Kanci, Tamil Nadu, India, which appears in a 16th-century work by Tirumalãmbã, Queen of Vijayangara.
The longest continuous woodshaving produced only with hand tools was 1,001 m (3,284.1 ft) long and made by Stefan Sibbert, Bernard Haase and Holm Litzenhoff (all Germany) at the premises of Rekord Fenster und Türen in Dägeling, Germany, on 21 September 2003. The shaving was cut from the rim of a large fir wood ‘barrel’, and took four and a half hours to make.
The longest wooden walkway is in Dalian, China and is 20.99 km (13.04 miles) in length. It was built by Dalian Landscape & Garden Administration and was completed on August 28 2009. The wooden walkway has 27 viewing platforms, the widest part is 17.18 metres and the narrowest is 0.85 metres. The walkway took 16 months to build and was made from two types of wood- Pinus Sylvestris and Eucalyptus gradis. The walkway starts from Xinghai Bridge to Haizhiyn Park.
The longest wooden toy train track is 1,650.14 m (5,413 ft 10 in) long and was built by Friends of Thomas “Team Japan” in collaboration with Fuji Television Network Inc, Fuji Television Kids Entertainment Inc and Sony Creative Products Inc at Mediage/Aqua City Odaiba, Japan on 23 August 2006