You are a salesperson at one of the ports in an island. You have to visit all the ports of the island and then come back to the starting port. Because you cannot swim and are scared of the sea, you have to stay on the land during your journey.
The island is modeled as a polygon on a two-dimensional plane. The polygon is simple, that is, its vertices are distinct and no two edges intersect or touch, other than consecutive edges which touch at their common vertex. In addition, no two consecutive edges are collinear. Each port in the island is modeled as a point on the boundary of the polygon. Your route is modeled as a closed curve that does not go outside of the polygon.
In preparation for the journey, you would like to compute the minimum length of a route to visit all the ports and return to the starting port.