From Kenmare to Kilrush, from Shannon to Sligo, there were kilometres and kilometres of adventure yet to explore...and hundreds of sea creatures yet to see.
Experts say the eruption poses no immediate threat to the closest communities - Klyuchi 50 kilometres away and Kozyrevsk 30 kilometres away.
Ride south for about one-and-a-half kilometres and you will reach the Bauhaus-inspired facade of the Reading Power Station, iconic in its 1930s styling and its 150m-high chimney.
The kit will be fitted on rocks three kilometres from the main island of the Ecrehous and six kilometres from the main island of the Minquiers.
The area was once enclosed by a city wall that was 10m high and five kilometres in circumference, built in 1555 and torn down in 1911.
Between them, Japan's ten regional electricity suppliers own the second-largest fibre-optic network in the country, measuring 160, 000 kilometres and growing.
Covering 5268 square kilometres and including 45, 000 dwellings, the Biosphere provides an unpunctuated skyline across much of its expanse: the ideal conditions for stargazing.
Until June the government in Tokyo took radiation measurements at just one site, as if that were enough to survey the city's 2, 200 square kilometres and 13m people.
He spoke of distances in metres and kilometres, and it took me a while to understand that this was not an affectation so much as a driving need to convert units of measurement more or less instantaneously.
Even if others are keen on a field, however huge, in pristine jungle nearly 500 kilometres and a mountain range from the populated coast, new bids would take time: Perupetro, the state oil firm, says it would take the rest of 1998 to prepare bidding specifications, under the government's new plan to divide the deal into three: operation of the field, the main pipelines, and distribution.
Given the undulating and unspoilt local terrain, hiking is an obvious attraction, and hundreds of kilometres of trails cover the Lika and Karlovac regions.
Three kilometres of runway can transport people and goods around the world, while 3 kilometres of railroad track will only lead down the road.
Once you descend into Cadaques, a town that drew Pablo Picasso (The Port at Cadaques, 1910), and Surrealist artists like Jean Miro and Marcel Duchamp, it is only a few more kilometres to Portlligat and the wondrous, white Salvador Dali House Museum (reservations are required).
Fine, palm-fringed beaches run for kilometres north and south of town.
He has already helped to track down a more recent, smaller impact (a mere 2.15m years ago, and involving an object somewhere between one and four kilometres across) to another part of the Pacific ocean, south-west of Chile.
Watson was born and raised in the Queensland town of Ipswich, which is 30 kilometres west of Brisbane, and his parents and sister still live in the area.
In Colombia drought has parched 5, 000 square kilometres of pasture and 2, 000 of maize, sorghum and soya.
Covering 5268 square kilometres the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere was granted its status in recognition of the special natural qualities that characterise the area.
At the squatter camp, I met a man who carries 40 litres of water in two containers, one and a half kilometres to his home every day.
Turland, who only took up competitive running four years ago, made the break seven kilometres from home and cruised comfortably to the line about 30 seconds ahead of compatriot Lisa Dick.
MOLA, which works by bouncing beams of light off the planet's surface, has found mountains twice as high as Everest, a crater ten kilometres deep, and huge valleys carved by more water than scientists believed had ever existed on Mars.
For Morocco, their absence was a small victory in a long campaign to take over the 12 square kilometres of Melilla and its 65, 000 people, along with its sister-city of Ceuta, which is just a shade bigger in size and population.
During the events it provided 260MW of power, using 550 generator sets and 1, 500 kilometres of cable across 39 venues.
But since the 1960s, satellites and aircraft with powerful radar devices have discovered more and more lakes buried kilometres beneath the thick ice sheet.
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The volcanoes are strung across several thousand kilometres of ocean floor and are moving westward on the Pacific tectonic plate at up to 6cm per year.
"The vehicles will cover thousands of kilometres in test drives and evaluations to gather valuable research data from every-day driving scenarios, " said Christian Ress, technical expert, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.
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The Inner City covers an area of 2.99 square kilometres (1.15 square miles) and the outer walls surrounding the city east and west of the Euphrates enclose an area of 9.56 square kilometres (3.69 square miles).
This unlikely sounding collaboration is taking place between researchers interested in exploring Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which is sealed off below several kilometres of ice, and planetary scientists, who see such exploration as a possible dress rehearsal for a future robotic mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy surface is thought to conceal vast oceans that might harbour extraterrestrial life.
No more politics, just pure and neutral adventures thousands of kilometres away from the nearest human being.
This was after adjusting for factors such as age, sleep patterns, kilometres driven, breaks taken and night-driving schedules.
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