My theory is that the "best views" are of landscapes - that humans love the natural world of mountains, lakes, oceans and earth. The Miriam Dictionary knows how to explain a word's meaning, and there are a lot of synonyms for view. I am thinking of the first one about the extent of sight of range or vision. So what are the places on earth with the most extensive range of sight?
The calgaryvisioncentre.com has an article titled The Longest Sightline on Earth and it is HERE. The author describes the sightline of a prairie road that is straight, flat and without any mountains, trees or other blockades as being 4.7 km away. The author says if you were to run a 5 km running race, you'd be able to just see the finish line from the start line.
The article goes on to say which are the longest sightlines on earth:
Mt. Dankova, Krygystan to Hindu Tagh, China 538km (green), Pic de Finestrelles, Spain to Pic Gaspard, France 443km (red) and Mt. Sanford to Denali/McKinley, USA 318km (pink).
If you go to the revolving earth in the article you can them all and here's two of them below.
The components of these sightlines? There's a tall vantage point, a tall target, proper air temperature and a clear line of sight. Those are the requirements for maximum visibility viewing distance. That's how Mt. Dankova in Kyrgyzstan to Hindu Tagh in China turns out to be the longest sightline on earth - at 538 km.
I took a look at pictures of the longest sightlines and if you ask me, they show little squits on the horizon. But that is the point, isn't it? And someone likely has the record for the picture of the longest view in the world.
Here's the first picture in the Moon Series - this one an original watercolour.
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