The torch relay before the 2012 London Olympics will start in Land's End and travel as far as the outer reaches of Scotland on an 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) journey, organizers said on Wednesday.

The Olympic flame will arrive from Greece on May 18, 2012, and the relay will get under way on the westerly tip of mainland Britain and continue for 70 days until the opening ceremony of the Games on July 27, 2012.

There will be no international relay after the chaos caused by human rights protesters demonstrating against China's hosting of the 2008 Games, although the relay may incorporate a stop in Dublin.

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."