It’s not always as obvious as you might think.
Oh, and west-east is according to the Greenwich Meridian.
North – Thompson, Canada
South – Asilah, Morocco
East – Barcelona, Spain
West – Victoria, BC, Canada
how far have you been?
15 Wednesday Apr 2009
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Of course, this is kind of hard on a globe…
East and West (depending or which direction you go… we went East) Mumbai, India or Agra, India
North: Moscow
South: Margarita Island, Venezuela
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I tried to look up some longitudes and it crashed Firefox. I take that to mean I am pretty locked in. Birmingham, Santa Clara CA, Sarasota FL. Even in cyberspace I don’t travel well.
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North: Helsinki, Finland
South: Fort Bragg, California
East: Helsinki
West: Pacific Rim National Park, BC
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North – St Andrews, Scotland
South – Eilat, Israel
East – Tula, USSR
West – Seattle, USA.
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North: Hemsedal, Norway
South: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
East: Shanghai, China
West: Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada
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North: Narvik, Norway
South: Cape Town, South Africa
East: Tokyo, Japan
West: Vancouver, Canada
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North: Iglulik, Nunuvut, Canada
South:Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
East: Oslo, Norway
West: Hawaii, USA
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Yikes! I forgot Peru for South! Only there for a few days for work, though so maybe it doesn’t really count.
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North: Orkney Islands, Scotland
South: Southern Point of Hawaii (Big Island)
East: Fraserborough, Scotland
West: Hawaii
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Ok – I’ll bite.
North: Uppsala, Sweden
South : Sydney, Australia
East : Sydney, Australia
West : Seattle, USA
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North: Amsterdam
South: Zanzibar
East: Seychelles
West: Ecuador
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Actually, I think Moscow is basically on the same Latitude as Ottawa is, so perhaps I will have to rethink this. It might be somewhere in northern Ontatio and not even that far in Northern Ontario. It might also be Edinburgh… Oh dear…
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Enjoyed your Seville, Spain I heart My City post on the Intelligent Travel blog. Here’s my article from San Francisco,
http://www.nancydbrown.com/journal/2009/3/17/i-heart-my-city-nancy-d-browns-san-francisco.html
I was in Seville in September and loved it!
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Hey Nancy, nice to meet you. I’ll repost your link and comment on tomorrow’s post (about two hours from now), which is going to be about the I Heart My City thing. I really enjoyed yours too.
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“Actually, I think Moscow is basically on the same Latitude as Ottawa is, so perhaps I will have to rethink this.”
Yeah, that’s why I said it’s not as obvious as you might think. Guspemar and I weren’t sure on which was further north – Amsterdam or London. I thought Ottawa was actually further north than Moscow.
Really interesting to read where you all have been (well, except for Sledpress 😉 ).
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I do depth not breadth. How many people arrived in the UK and immediately demanded to be taken to Bovington RAF base to see the tank museum?
I once panned rough garnets out of a beagle-infested mica mine in SW Virginia, too.
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North – Iceland
South – Xi’an, China
East – Beijing, China
West – Lisbon, Portugal
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North: Iceland, north of Rejkavik, whale watching.
East: Tokyo. Narita airport to be precise, so not as exciting as it might first appear.
South: The great southern road in Oz, down by the Seven Sisters (or are they 12 apostles?)
West: Clearwater, Florida, wathcing the sun set into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Yes, my Moscow is a bit of a mislead, since I never got off the plane… When we landed in Moscow on the trip to India, my mother decided not to wake me up. They all got off the plane and left me alone. I woke up and found everyone gone and the plane filled with huge Russian women doing the cleaning. I was 11 (this was in 1968). You can imagine what was going through my mind, especially when I asked “Where is everyone?” (in English, of course) and these women threw back their heads and had a hearty laugh…. (to my mind, that meant “Ha-ha! You will never again see your loved ones alive!”).
My mother often regales people with her description of the bleak Communist-era airport, including the sight of the woman sitting in the bathroom cubicle with the door wide open so she could see the goings-on in the “lounge”. I mention that they didn’t bother to wake me so I could say I set foot in Russia but she still has never said “We should have taken you with us.”
On the return trip, for whatever security reason, we weren’t allowed off the plane and had to keep the window blinds down.
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“I once panned rough garnets out of a beagle-infested mica mine”…..
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West: Tofino, BC
East: Agra, India
South: Margarita Island
North: Edinburgh, Scotland; Moscow, USSR (as it was, then) (both on the same latitude)
I have flown over Greenland, via the Arctic Circle route, though have never set foot on it. I think it should count if you have physically SEEN it. I have seen Mount Everest from a plane, too, the closest I will ever come to it.
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North: Ice edge of the Chukchi Sea latitude 75N
South: Sydney, Australia
East: Brisbane, Australia
West: Gambell, AK on St Lawrence Island For a great story on my trip to Gambell, check out http://healingmagichands.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/arctic-chamber-orchestra-flight-to-st-lawrence-island-or-was-that-a-fright/
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North: Somewhere under the Arctic Ocean in winter.
South: Mumbai, India, or Aden (not sue which is further south…?
East: Hirosaki, NE Japan.
West: San Francisco, California (unless you count my plane refuelling in Anchorage).
How about:
Deep: 650m below the ocean, 800m below ground.
High: 45,000 feet.
Craig.
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