Working Our Way to the Century Club Benchmark

By Suzanne Klasen

How do you calculate all the places that you have visited?   One way to do that would be to just track the countries you have visited.  However, there is another way to track that includes countries and unique destinations.   Unique destinations are part of a country but some what unique in their distance from the larger country, or some how culturally unique.  One such system is utilized by a club call the Traveler’s Century Club.  To be a member of the club, folks have to have traveled to 100 or more of these unique destinations. Provisional membership is available to folks who have traveled to 75 or more places on the list with the goal of reaching the 100 places.

  Countries & Territories | The Travelers’ Century Club® (travelerscenturyclub.org)

Their system break out places like Alaska and Hawaii for their distance, and arguably unique culture from the United States.   So if you have visited the continental US, Alaska and Hawaii, that counts at 3 Unique Destinations. This also solves the issue of if you have visited a unique territory, do you count that as the country or the territory.   For example I have been to the Island of Madeira which  is part of Portugal, but not to the mainland. I include Madeira on my list but I cannot yet count Portugal, as it refers to the mainland part of Portugal. It is not a perfect system, and I am sure that there are places that could be argued either way. I like it, however, because it does recognize that there are places in the world that may be part of a larger country, but unique in their own right.

Steve and I have been avid travelers all our lives and in the last year we have been able to enjoy is retirement from his 9 to 5 job and take more trips than we ever had time to do before. Since August of 2021, we have added Hungary, Slovakia, Turks and Cacaos, Bahamas (Steve added this year, I had been there in 1975), St. Vincent and Grenadines, Dominican Republic, and British Virgin Islands. Later this year, we will visit Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Majorca, and Romania for the first time. We are already more than half way to the century mark and we plan to update this table as we complete our trips. We hope to reach the century mark by 2025 or 2026. I find that having first hand experience of destinations is one of the most important resources that I can utilize when helping my clients plan their own travel.

Century Club List

Suzanne

Steve

Planned 2024

Planned 2025

Planned 2026

Pacific Ocean

Austral Islands

Australia 

X

X

Bismark Archipelago (New Ireland, New Britain, Bougainville, Admiralty Islands)

Chatham Islands

Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Penrhyn)

Easter Island

X


Fiji Islands

French Polynesia (Tahiti, Tuamotu, Austral, Gambier)

X

X

Galapagos Islands

X

X

Guam

Hawaiian Islands

X

X

Juan Fernandez Islands (Robinson Crusoe Is.)

X


Kiribati (Gilberts, Tarawa, Ocean Island)

Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury, Howland)

Lord Howe Island

Marquesas Islands


Marshall Islands, Rep. of (Majuro, Kwajalein, Eniwetok)

Micronesia, Fed. States of (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk,Yap, Caroline Islands)

Midway Island

Nauru

New Caledonia & Deps. (Noumea, Loyalty Islands)

New Zealand

X

X

Niue

Norfolk Island

Northern Marianas (Saipan, Tinian)

Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima)

Palau, Republic of

Papua New Guinea

Pitcairn Island

X


Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa)

Samoa, American (Pago Pago) Samoa, Western (Apia)

Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tulagi)

Tasmania

X


Tokelau Islands (Fakaofu, Atafu, Union)

Tonga (Nukualofa)

Tuvalu (Ellice Island, Funafuti, Vaitapu)

Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands)

Wake Island

Wallis & Futuna Islands

North America

Alaska

X

X

Canada

X

X

Mexico

X

X

Prince Edward Island 

St. Pierre & Miquelon

X

X

United States (continental)

X

X

Central America

Belize (British Honduras)

X

Costa Rica

X

X



El Salvador

Guatemala

X

X



Honduras

X

Nicaragua



Panama

X

X

South America

Argentina

X

X

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

X

X

Colombia

X

X



Ecuador

X

X

French Guiana

Guyana (British Guiana)

Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island)

Paraguay

Peru

X

X

Surinam (Netherlands Guiana)

Uruguay

X

X

Venezuela

X

Caribbean

Anguilla

Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda)

X

X

Aruba

X

X

Bahamas

X

X

Barbados

X

X

Bonaire

X

X

Cayman Islands

X

X

Cuba

Curacao

X

X

Dominica

X

X

Dominican Republic

X

X

Grenada & Deps. (Carriacou, Grenadines)

X

X

Guadeloupe & Deps. (Marie Galante)

Haiti

X

X

Jamaica

X

X

Leeward Islands, French (St. Martin)

X

Leeward Islands, Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius)

Martinique

X

Montserrat

Puerto Rico

X

X

St. Barts

San Andres & Providencia

St. Kitts & Nevis

X

X

St. Lucia

X

X

St. Maarten (formerly Netherlands Antilles)

X

X

St. Vincent & Deps. (Bequia, Canouan, Grenadines)

X

X

Trinidad & Tobago

Turks & Caicos Islands

X

X

Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas)

X

X

Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)

X

X

Atlantic Ocean

Ascension

Azores Islands

X

X

Bermuda


Canary Islands

X

X

Cape Verde Islands

Falkland Islands

X

X

Fernando do Noronha

Faroe Islands

X

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)

X

X

Iceland

X

X

Madeira

X

X

South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

St. Helena

Tristan da Cunha

Europe

Aland Islands (Mariehamn)

Albania

X

Andorra

Austria

X

X

Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca)

X

X

Belarus

Belgium

X

X


Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bulgaria

X

X

Corsica

Crete

Croatia

X

X

Cyprus, British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri & Dhekelia

Cyprus, Republic

Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State

Czech Republic

Denmark

X

X



England

X

X

Estonia

X

X



Finland

X

X



France

X

X

Germany

X

X

Gibraltar

Greece

X

X

Greek Aegean Islands (Cyclades, Dodecanese, Northern Aegean Islands)

X

X

Guernsey & Deps (Alderney, Herm, Sark, Channel Islands)

Hungary

X

X

Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.) ZAKYNTHOS

X

X

Ireland (Eire)

X

X

Ireland, Northern (Ulster)

X

X

Isle of Man

Italy

X

X

Jersey (Channel Islands)

Kaliningrad

Kosovo

Lampedusa

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

X

X


Macedonia

Malta

Moldova

Monaco

Montenegro

X

X

Netherlands

X

X


Norway

X

X

Poland

X

Portugal

X

X


Romania

X

X

Russia

San Marino

Sardinia

Scotland

X

Serbia

X

X

Sicily

X

Slovakia

X

X

Slovenia

Spain

X

X

Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island)

X

X

Srpska

Sweden

X

X



Switzerland

X

X

Trans Dniester

Turkey in Europe (Istanbul)

X

Ukraine

Vatican City

X

X

Wales

X

Antarctica

Argentine (Palmer Peninsula)

X

X


Australian Antarctic Territory South Pole (Mawson, Davis, Macquarie, Heard)

X

X

Chilean (Palmer Peninsula)

British Antarctica (Graham Land, South Shetland, South Orkney)

X

French Southern & Antarctic Territory (Kerguelen, Crozet, Amsterdam, St. Paul)

Norwegian (Queen Maud Land, Bouvet)

New Zealand (Ross Dependency)

Africa

Algeria

Angola (Port. West Africa)

Benin (Dahomey)

Botswana (Bechuanaland)

Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)

Burundi (Urundi)

Cabinda

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Congo (Brazzaville)

Congo (Kinshasa-Zaire)

Djibouti (French Somaliland, Affars & Issas)

Egypt in Africa

Equatorial Guinea (Bioko, Fernando Poo)

Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni)

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland)

Guinea (French Guinea)

Guinea-Bissau (Port. Guinea)

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Lesotho (Basutoland)

Liberia

Libya

Malawi (Nyasaland)

Mali (French Soudan)

Mauritania

Morocco

Morocco, Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla) {Spanish Territory}

Mozambique (Port. East Africa)

X

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda (Ruanda)

Sao Tome & Principe

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Somalia (Italian Somaliland)

Somaliland (British)

South Africa

X

Sudan, North

Sudan, South

Swaziland

Tanzania (Tanganyika)

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara)

Zambia (No. Rhodesia)

Zanzibar

Zimbabwe (So. Rhodesia)

Middle East

Abu Dhabi

Ajman

Bahrain

Dubai

Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula)

Fujeirah

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Oman

Palestine

Qatar

Ras Al Khaimah

Saudi Arabia

Sharjah

Syria

Umm Al Qaiwain

Yemen

Indian Ocean

Andaman-Nicobar Islands

British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago, Diego Garcia)

Christmas Island

Cocos Islands (Keeling)

Comoro Islands (Anjouan, Moheli, Grand Comoro)

Lakshadweep

Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)

Maldive Islands

Mauritius & Dependencies (Agalega, St. Brandon)

Mayotte (Dzaoudzi)

Reunion

Rodrigues Island

Seychelles

Socotra

Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Islands)

Asia

Abkhazia

Afghanistan

Armenia (Yerevan)

Azerbaijan (Baku)

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Brunei

Cambodia

China, People’s Republic


Georgia

Hainan Island

Hong Kong

X

X

India

Indonesia (Java)

Irian Jaya (Dutch New Guinea)

Japan 

X

Jeju Island (South Korea)

Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)

Kashmir

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Korea, North

Korea, South

Laos

Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Indonesia)

Macau

Malaysia

Moluka (Moluccas, Indonesia)

Mongolia, Republic (Mrs. Jones only)

Myanmar (Burma)

Nakhichevan

Nepal

Pakistan

Philippines

X

X

Sabah (North Borneo)

Sarawak

Siberia (Russia in Asia)


Sikkim

Singapore

South Ossetia

Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia

Sumatra (Indonesia)

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tajikistan

Thailand

Tibet

Timor Leste

Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir)

X

X

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Vietnam



Totals

86

81

3

7

5

Suzanne

Steve

Planned 2024

Planned 2025

Planned 2026

Suzanne Klasen

Suzanne Klasen is the Owner / Travel Advisor of CruiseOne Suzanne Klasen. We have combined our love of cruising with computer skills to bring you a very informative and entertaining site that follows my cruising travels and thoughts. I hope that you will let me help plan your next vacation.

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