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** Okay, you are a pirate, and your dream is to find the legendary treasure of Gold Roger, which he hid somewhere on the Grand Line (an ocean route that circles the whole world at the equator); find it, and you will (you assume) be rich beyond your wildest dreams! Well your second problem (the first being that you are a greedy fool who has no idea the danger you are getting yourself into) is getting to the Grand Line, and that ain't easy:
*** First of all, the Grand Line is bordered by the Calm Belts, a barrier that makes approach from the North or South almost impossible.<ref>These regions are based on the Real Life horse latitudes (or "the doldrums"), at the 30° North and South Latitudes surrounding the equator, a region notorious for weak winds that led to ships becoming stranded.</ref> The Calm Belts have no wind or currents, so a sailed vessel trying to cross one would be paralyzed. Try to reach it this way and you and your crew will likely perish from starvation or thirst before even getting a few nautical miles in. Ships that are propelled with oars, steam engines or some other self propulsion system can theoretically cross, but the Calm Belts are also home to marauding tribes of Sea Kings, monsters who are territorial, xenophobic, and very unfriendly.
*** Or, you could try to reach the Grand Line via the Reverse Mountain which is on one side of the world on the Red Line - this will also lead to your doom, it's just much quicker here.
*** Of course, if you're truly serious about getting to the Grand Line, you could try joining the Marines. Their ships are not only self propelled, their hulls are coated with sea stone, which make them invisible to the Sea Kings. They have in fact built many strongholds and cities in the Grand Line, and even a few in the Calm Belt, such as Impel Down (the reason that place has a reputation of an escape proof prison). Of course, working for [[The Empire|World Government]] has many other problems.
** Another barrier in this world's admittedly strange geography is the aforementioned Red Line. A polar opposite of the Grand Line, this ring-like continent also circles the world, but in this case north to south along the meridians, separating the East and West Blues. The center of this ring is dominated by impossibly tall mountains, making travel from one hemisphere of the world to the other nearly impossible. And don't try digging under them or blasting through, because the odd red stone (where its name comes from naturally) is indestructible (not even someone with the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi devil fruit power, which can repel any object at the speed of light, can not crack it) and this rock extends 1,000 meters deep from the surface to Fish Man Island at the ocean floor. There are a few well-known ways to pass, but none are easy. Again, the Reverse Mountain can be used
** But nobody, not even the Marines, would be able to cross both barriers at once, which is why One Piece is so difficult to find. While Laugh Tale (where One Piece presumably is) is located only a few dozen miles west ("as the crow flies", so to speak) of the Reverse Mountain, getting ''from'' Reverse Mountain would require crossing over the Red Line, which again, is impossible. Thus, gaining Gol D. Roger's treasure requires circumnavigating the entire globe via the Grand Line, which is much, ''much'' more dangerous than getting there in the first place. In fact, given how difficult travel is due to these great barriers, a common fan theory states that One Piece itself is some weapon or technique that can not only defeat the World Government but physically destroy the Red Line, bringing freedom to the people while unshackling the entire world.
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