the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956, ed. (1958). «The Games of the XVI Olympiad». The official report of the organizing Committee for the games of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956(en inglés). Melbourne: W. M. Houston. p. 24. OCLC223358114. Consultado el 5 de abril de 2012. «The flame was borne by relays of athletes across the first 220 miles in Greece, then, transferred to miners' lamps and to aircraft, flown from Athens by way of Istanbul, Basra, Karachi, Calcutta, Bangkok, Singapore, and Djakarta to Darwin, a matter of 8,544 miles.»
the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956, ed. (1958). «The Games of the XVI Olympiad». The official report of the organizing Committee for the games of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956(en inglés). Melbourne: W. M. Houston. p. 24. OCLC223358114. Consultado el 5 de abril de 2012. «The flame was borne by relays of athletes across the first 220 miles in Greece, then, transferred to miners' lamps and to aircraft, flown from Athens by way of Istanbul, Basra, Karachi, Calcutta, Bangkok, Singapore, and Djakarta to Darwin, a matter of 8,544 miles.»
