Guinness World Records 2018

1

00–500 years

O

ldest...

UPERLATIVESS

From long-lived pets to the oldest fragments of our planet, we explore Earth’s 4.55-billion-year history to celebrate record-breaking longevity in its many forms.

5

00–8,000 years

0–100 yearsDog 29

years 5

m

onths

The greatest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29

y

ears for an Australian

cattle dog named Bluey, owned by Les Hall of Rochester, Victoria, Australia. Bluey was obtained as a puppy in 1910 and worked among cattle and sheep for nearly 20

y

ears before

being put to sleep on 14

N

ov 1939.

Reigning monarch 91

years 11

d

ays

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (UK) was born on 21

A

pr 1926 and became the

w

orld’s

ol

dest monarch on 23 Jan 2015,

aged 88

y

ears 277

d

ays. As of 2

M

ay 2017,

she was 91

y

ears 11

d

ays old.

&

˽•ĈÞ©

4

3

years

A g

oldfish named Tish, owned by Hilda and

Gordon Hand of Carlton Miniott, North Yorkshire, UK, lived

for 43

y

ears. Hilda’s son

Peter won Tish at a fairground stall in 1956.

Topiary gardenc. 327Levens Hall in Cumbria, UK, has topiary designs that were initially planted and trained in the 1690s. The shapes include “Chess Pieces”, the “Judge’s Wig” and the “Great Umbrellas”.

y

ears

Zo

o

265

y

ears

The oldest continuously operating zoo is the Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria. It^

w

as first opened

to

the public in 1779,

although initially it had been created in 1752 as a crown menagerie.

Jeanne Louise Calment (FRA) was born on 21

F

eb 1875 to Nicolas

(1837–1931) and Marguerite (neé Gilles, 1 838–1924). She died 122

y

ears later

at a nursing home in Arles, southern France, on 4

A

ug 1997.

Person 122

y

ears 164 days

Mes

sage in a bottle

10

8

years 138

da

ys

The oldest bottled message spent 108

years 138

d

ays at sea after

being released by the Marine Biological Association (UK) in the North Sea (52°4.8'N; 003°37'E) on 30

N

ov 1906. The message was

found at Germany’s Amrum island on 17

A

pr 2015.

Cat 3 8 years 3

d

ays

Creme Puff was born

on 3

A

ug 1967

and lived until 6

A

ug

2 005 – an amazing 38

y

ears! Creme

Puff lived with her

o

wner, Jake

Perry, in

A

ustin,

Te

x a s , U S A.

On 26

J

ul 1920, at the Antwerp Olympics, Oscar

Swahn (SWE, b. 20

O

ct

1 847) became the

oldest

Olympic medallist

, a

ged 72

y

ears 280

d

ays. On

4

Jul 1912, Swahn had been in the victorious men’s

100

m r

unning deer (double shots) shooting team at the

Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden, aged 64

y

ears

258

d

ays. That win made him the

oldest Olympic

gold medallist

. The 100 m running deer was a target

shooting competition at the Olympics from 1908 to 1948.

Olympic medallist 72

y

ears 280

d

ays

Amusement park 434

y

ears

Bakken, located in Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen in Denmark, opened in 1583 and is the world’s oldest operating amusement park. It claims to have more than 150 attractions, including a

w

ooden

roller-coaster built in 1932.