LetS be a closed and bounded set in a uniformly convex Banach spaceX. It is shown that the set of all points inX which have a farthest point inS is dense. Letb(S) denote the set of all farthest points ofS, then a sufficient condition for $$\overline {co} S = \overline {co} b(S)$$ to hold is thatX have the following property (I): Every closed and bounded convex set is the intersection of a family of closed balls.