Geographic meme

[chickenfeet]

via bopeepsheep

What are the furthest points North, South, East and West you have visited?

Farthest north for me: Stockholm 59n20 18e05
Farthest south: Lake Te Anau, NZ 45s13 167e45
Farthest east: Napier, NZ 39s30 176e54
Farthest west: Papeete, Tahiti 17s30 148w30

Note: I chose to define furthest east and west as furthest from Greenwich.

These four points can be used to define a rectangle (well, in more-or-less spherical geometry they do) whose borders lie along the lines of latitude and longitude you have identified. What's at the centre of this region? Have you been there? Where is the nearest place to the centre you have visited?

To avoid this being utterly trivial I took the big rectangle rather than the very thin strip in the middle of the Pacific. The centre of the big rectangle is 9n55 13e42, roughly half way between Yola, Nigeria and Maroua, Cameroon. Unsurprisingly it's not a place I've been. The closest is probably Palma de Mallorca at 39n35 2e39.

Comments

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

how did you work this out?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

with an atlas

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

I don't have an atlas.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

then you are probaly buggered

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

strangely,I haven't been to any of your corners but, I probably have been to that bit in the middle

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

I find the E/W distinction difficult since I've both lived in NZ and been around the world. E/W infinity?

[(Anonymous)]

That was my problem too. I decided quite arbitrally to take the two points with the "biggest" E and W longtitude values.