Hypothetically, how long would it take to circumnavigate New Zealand by foot?

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my name is Brando Yelavich. I'm 19 and I'm simply walking around New Zealand without using roads, so on the beaches and coastlines living off the land. You can watch my progress here http://wildboy.co.nz (facebook page).

I'm 78 days in and just about at the bottom of the north island. It is going to take me about 1 1/2 years. I'm doing it solo, so no support crew, just me and my pack. Just the mapping took 3 weeks, to do it depends on the type of person you are to whether you could take this adventure on.

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Using Google maps, I did a rough estimate for walking around the South Island. The estimate comes to 2894 km. According to Google, this would take 24 days and 23 hours. I don't think the Google estimate includes any time for sleeping and eating, so assuming you walk 12 hours a day you'd have to double that.

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