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"A young man named Ilmar Island of Pompano Beach, Florida, Hitchhiked from Key West, Florida, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a distance of about 5200 miles, setting out on June 2, 1979, and arriving at his destination on June 7, just 5 days 20 hours and 52 minutes later."
=== From [[Nordkapp|North Cape]] to [[Gibraltar]] Suggestions for other possible records ===If you want to do something that (probably) hasn't been done before, you can try your thumb at any of these. Don't expect to end up in the Guinness Book of Records for it, they no longer seem to have a section with hitchhiking records.
* [[Nordkapp|North Cape]] to [[Gibraltar]]
* [[Prudhoe Bay]] ([[Alaska]]) to [[Ushuaia]] ([[Argentina]])
* [[Cabo da Roca]] ([[Portugal))]] to [[Cape Dezhnev]] ([[Russia]])
== The greatest distance hitched in a 24-hour period ==