The Longest Fence in the World
2/24/202632 min
How a fence meant to protect sheep transformed the entire Australian landscape.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Roman Mars· Host0:30
This is Ninety-Nine Percent Invisible. I'm Roman Mars. [upbeat music] Over the years in this job, I've learned a lot of cocktail party facts about the built environment. For example, the tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but the largest building in the world by volume is a Boeing airplane factory in Everett, Washington. It's four hundred and seventy-two million cubic feet. The longest bridge is in China, as is the longest wall. No surprise there. But what about the longest fence? Reporter Shirley Wang traveled deep into rural Australia to find it.
Shirley Wang1:07
[upbeat music] The longest fence in the world begins just a few hours north of Brisbane, on the outskirts of a small town called Jindowee. Jindowee has a hardware store, an accountant's office, a butcher shop, a beauty salon, and a small hotel on top of a pub. Oh, I've got a meat tray raffle.