Jules Verne route map

Journey Into the Interior of the Earth map, route, chapters, and distances

This page collects the full Mapped Fiction route for Journey Into the Interior of the Earth. The interactive map follows the journey from No. 19 Konigstrasse, Hamburg to San Vicenzo port, while the notes below make the route crawlable and easy to audit.

Route overview

The mapped route uses Carriage, Rail, Steamer, Schooner, Horse, Boat, Foot, Tunnel, Wrong turn, Raft, Volcanic. Distances are either explicit in the source, geodesic between known locations, or estimated from the route notes where the title gives a fictional or approximate path.

• Hamburg departure: No. 19 Konigstrasse, Hamburg to Altona station, 6.0 km by Carriage.
• Rail to Kiel: Altona station to Kiel, 87 km by Rail.
• Belt steamer: Kiel to Korsor, 135 km by Steamer.
• Rail across Zealand: Korsor to Copenhagen, 98 km by Rail.
• Out through the Sound: Copenhagen to Skagen, 262 km by Schooner.
• North Sea crossing: Skagen to Faroe waters, 1,088 km by Schooner.
• Toward Iceland: Faroe waters to Cape Portland approach, 647 km by Schooner.
• Faxa Bay arrival: Cape Portland approach to Reykjavik, 170 km by Schooner.

View the complete route table for Journey Into the Interior of the Earth.

Chapter maps

1. Chapter 1: The Professor and His Family
2. Chapter 2: A Mystery to Be Solved at Any Price
3. Chapter 3: The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor
4. Chapter 4: The Enemy to Be Starved Into Submission
5. Chapter 5: Famine, Then Victory, Followed by Dismay
6. Chapter 6: Exciting Discussions About an Unparalleled Enterprise
7. Chapter 7: A Woman's Courage
8. Chapter 8: Serious Preparations for Vertical Descent
9. Chapter 9: Iceland, But What Next?
10. Chapter 10: Interesting Conversations With Icelandic Savants
11. Chapter 11: A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth
12. Chapter 12: A Barren Land
13. Chapter 13: Hospitality Under the Arctic Circle
14. Chapter 14: But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
15. Chapter 15: Snaefell at Last
16. Chapter 16: Boldly Down the Crater
17. Chapter 17: Vertical Descent
18. Chapter 18: The Wonders of Terrestrial Depths
19. Chapter 19: Geological Studies in Situ
20. Chapter 20: The First Signs of Distress
21. Chapter 21: Compassion Fuses the Professor's Heart
22. Chapter 22: Total Failure of Water
23. Chapter 23: Water Discovered
24. Chapter 24: Well Said, Old Mole!
25. Chapter 25: De Profundis
26. Chapter 26: The Worst Peril of All
27. Chapter 27: Lost in the Bowels of the Earth
28. Chapter 28: The Rescue in the Whispering Gallery
29. Chapter 29: Thalatta! Thalatta!
30. Chapter 30: A New Mare Internum
31. Chapter 31: Preparations for a Voyage of Discovery
32. Chapter 32: Wonders of the Deep
33. Chapter 33: A Battle of Monsters
34. Chapter 34: The Great Geyser
35. Chapter 35: An Electric Storm
36. Chapter 36: Calm Philosophic Discussions
37. Chapter 37: The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology
38. Chapter 38: The Professor in His Chair Again
39. Chapter 39: Forest Scenery Illuminated by Electricity
40. Chapter 40: Preparations for Blasting a Passage
41. Chapter 41: The Great Explosion and the Rush Down Below
42. Chapter 42: Headlong Speed Upward Through Darkness
43. Chapter 43: Shot Out of a Volcano at Last!
44. Chapter 44: Sunny Lands in the Blue Mediterranean
45. Chapter 45: All's Well That Ends Well

Primary source

The map is grounded in Project Gutenberg #3748. Source links on route and chapter pages point to the relevant chapters or scenes where available.