London 2012's Olympic torch relay will start in Land's End and travel as far as the outer Hebrides on an 8,000-mile journey to the stadium.
The Olympic Flame will arrive from Greece exactly one year from today and the relay will kick off in Land's End, Cornwall, and continue for 70 days until the opening ceremony of the Games on July 27, 2012.
Organisers today announced the route and details of how the public can apply to be one of 8,000 torchbearers.
London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe said: "The Olympic Flame will shine a light right across every nation and region of the UK and showcase the very best of who we are and where we live.
"The first locations on the route confirmed today give a flavour of the reach the Olympic Torch Relay will have around the UK and how extensive the opportunity for starting to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games will be."
The relay aims to go within an hour's travel time of 95% of the population - and there are also plans to take the Olympic Flame to Dublin.
There will be six island visits: to the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Shetland, Orkney and the Isle of Lewis.
The first 74 locations have been confirmed by organisers taking in famous sports venues, historic sites and places of outstanding natural beauty.
On most days of the relay, the Olympic Flame will travel for 12 hours each day ending in an evening celebration event.
Olympics minister Hugh Robertson said: "The Olympic Torch Relay brings London 2012 to the doorsteps of the UK giving everybody the chance to celebrate the London Games. It's a magnificent showcase for the country and a chance to mark the achievements of inspirational people in our communities."
There will be no international torch relay - the International Olympic Committee decided to make it a domestic event only after the controversial Beijing torch relay in 2008 where protesters used the event to demonstrate against China's human rights abuses.
Britain's IOC member Craig Reedie believes that decision will benefit London.
He said: "People used the torch as an opportunity for protest when it should really be an opportunity for peaceful celebration.
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"That's why the decision was taken by the IOC to make it a domestic relay only and I think that can only benefit London and Britain."
