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« Reply #25 on: September 02, 2013, 07:32:00 AM »

And of course, trying to define east-west is arbitrary, since I've crossed the International Dateline by plane many times.  When I go back to the US, I do it by going east, not west.  So in that sense, it's kind of strange to say that I've never been west of Victoria.

As long as you've not been around the world, say if you've only gone Oz-America and Oz-Europe, there isn't a problem. The furthest east you've been is the furthest east you've been in America and the furthest west you've been is the furthest west in Europe.

And if you have been, well east and west don't count for you anymore as you've been everywhere. Grin
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« Reply #26 on: September 02, 2013, 07:33:20 AM »

Furthest North 58
Furthest South 37
Furthest West -9
Furthest East 13

So you can box me in Smiley
N: North coast of Scotland?
S: Andalusia?
W: Ireland, perhaps Cork?
E: Berlin?
Now try mine. Grin
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« Reply #27 on: September 02, 2013, 07:55:02 AM »

And of course, trying to define east-west is arbitrary, since I've crossed the International Dateline by plane many times.  When I go back to the US, I do it by going east, not west.  So in that sense, it's kind of strange to say that I've never been west of Victoria.

As long as you've not been around the world, say if you've only gone Oz-America and Oz-Europe, there isn't a problem. The furthest east you've been is the furthest east you've been in America and the furthest west you've been is the furthest west in Europe.

And if you have been, well east and west don't count for you anymore as you've been everywhere. Grin

I have been around the world.  In 2011, I went Australia->Israel->USA->Australia, going around the world going west, with several other airport layovers along the way.  (The London-Chicago flight that I mentioned earlier was part of that trip.)  So I guess east and west don't mean anything for me anymore.  Sad

Some day, I'd like to go to Antarctica, and walk around in circles around the South Pole a few dozen times.  Then east and west *really* won't mean anything to me anymore.
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« Reply #28 on: September 02, 2013, 08:26:30 AM »

To think, if I had gone on that high school trip to Iqaluit, I would've beaten you all Sad
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« Reply #29 on: September 02, 2013, 09:36:18 AM »

It's a good exercise. I naively thought that my stop in Goose Bay, Labrador would have been farthest north but it was bettered by my trip to Moscow and bested by a visit to Montrose, Scotland. It was equally interesting to find out that Seattle and San Francisco are nearly the longitude with SF just a bit west, though my visit to Silver Oak winery in Sonoma was a bit west of both.
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« Reply #30 on: September 02, 2013, 12:57:00 PM »

Ooh, someone try me. All of these values are fairly rough.

N: 51°N
S: 1°N
E: 114°E
W: 124°W
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« Reply #31 on: September 02, 2013, 03:24:50 PM »
« Edited: September 02, 2013, 03:26:24 PM by HagridOfTheDeep »

North: Calgary?
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« Reply #32 on: September 02, 2013, 04:48:07 PM »

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North 60N
South 8N
East 81E
West 124W

approximately
Tricky..
North -possibly Oslo or Helsinki, though I go for St. Petersburg.
South - I go for the southern tip of the Indian peninsula, that you most likely have visited (see eastern longitude). Ethiopia (a bit south from Addis), Venezuela, Colombia and Panama are other possibilities.
East - Somewhere in India (Lucknow?)
West - Somewhere on the Pacific coast north of SF. I go for Victoria island.
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« Reply #33 on: September 02, 2013, 05:07:08 PM »

Ooh, someone try me. All of these values are fairly rough.

N: 51°N
S: 1°N
E: 114°E
W: 124°W

N - depends how rough your figures are. London is at 51.5, so it is theoretically possible, especially if you are referring to a LHR layover. Otherwise, I also go for Calgary.
S- Considering how far East you have travelled, this is most likely Singapore.
E- Hong Kong
W- Victoria Island
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« Reply #34 on: September 02, 2013, 07:09:38 PM »

Ooh, someone try me. All of these values are fairly rough.

N: 51°N
S: 1°N
E: 114°E
W: 124°W

W- Victoria Island

Don't you mean Vancouver Island? Victoria Island is in the arctic.. or the Ottawa River.
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« Reply #35 on: September 02, 2013, 11:25:52 PM »

North: 60° 33' N (Kenai, AK)
South: 26° 25' N (Fort Myers Beech, FL)
West: 151°13' W (Kenai, AK)
East: 77° 02' W (Washington, DC)
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« Reply #36 on: September 03, 2013, 03:49:33 AM »

North -possibly Oslo or Helsinki, though I go for St. Petersburg.
South - I go for the southern tip of the Indian peninsula, that you most likely have visited (see eastern longitude). Ethiopia (a bit south from Addis), Venezuela, Colombia and Panama are other possibilities.
East - Somewhere in India (Lucknow?)
West - Somewhere on the Pacific coast north of SF. I go for Victoria island.
Pretty good.
St Petersburg is correct, Kanyakumari is correct (just beating out Costa Rica), "somewhere in India" is correct though you're far too far north - doublechecking, it's still slightly closer the 80th than the 81st actually and anyways, it's just stepping out of the Kerala Express (Delhi to Trivandrum in 50 hours, though I got out at Varkela after 49) and buying chai and bananas on the platform. At Vijayawada. If that don't count it's Mahabalipuram, which is only just beyond the 80th. America's Pacific coast is correct, but Oregon rather than BC.

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« Reply #37 on: September 03, 2013, 09:47:27 AM »

Ooh, someone try me. All of these values are fairly rough.

N: 51°N
S: 1°N
E: 114°E
W: 124°W

N - depends how rough your figures are. London is at 51.5, so it is theoretically possible, especially if you are referring to a LHR layover. Otherwise, I also go for Calgary.
S- Considering how far East you have travelled, this is most likely Singapore.
E- Hong Kong
W- Victoria Island

It was London; 52 would probably be more accurate than 51. Singapore and Hong Kong are correct. The last one is actually the California coast west of Ferndale.
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« Reply #38 on: September 03, 2013, 12:32:06 PM »

someone can try mine:

North    60N
South    13N
West  122W
East     43E

2 of these are somewhat easy, 2 are difficult so here's a hint: 4 different locations, but 2 in the same country.
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« Reply #39 on: September 03, 2013, 01:19:43 PM »

These are approximate, of course.

N: 45°N (Mackinac Island, MI)
S: 29°N (San Antonio, TX)
E: 82°W (Sandusky, OH)
W: 98°W (San Antonio, TX)
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« Reply #40 on: September 03, 2013, 01:27:36 PM »

here's a good long/lat world map btw:
http://pos-map.appspot.com/en/coordinates60.html
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« Reply #41 on: September 03, 2013, 09:13:06 PM »

someone can try mine:

North    60N
South    13N
West  122W
East     43E

2 of these are somewhat easy, 2 are difficult so here's a hint: 4 different locations, but 2 in the same country.
With the hints, it is not that difficult anymore:
112 W is San Francisco
13 N can't be in Asia. Sahel is unlikely (you would have travelled there from a more southern spot such as Addis, Lagos or Abijan). That leaves slight chances for Banjul or Tegucigalpa, but the most likely location is Barbados (to get more specific -the Gap or Oistin Bay).

So N and E must be in the same country, which can only be the Russian Federation:
60 N is St. Petersburg
43 E? - Well, I would go for Nizhny Novgorod, if that wasn't already on 44 E. The only larger Russian towns on 43 E are Pyatigorsk and Mineralny Vody.

Unfortunately, I have already given the names of my locations. To allow you some guessing as well:
The furthest north aside from Iceland was 58N
The furthest west outside the USA I have come is 79W.
The furthest south outside Africa I have come is 9S.
The next furthest east after Manila was 119.5 E.
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« Reply #42 on: September 04, 2013, 01:04:03 AM »

someone can try mine:

North    60N
South    13N
West  122W
East     43E

2 of these are somewhat easy, 2 are difficult so here's a hint: 4 different locations, but 2 in the same country.
With the hints, it is not that difficult anymore:
112 W is San Francisco
13 N can't be in Asia. Sahel is unlikely (you would have travelled there from a more southern spot such as Addis, Lagos or Abijan). That leaves slight chances for Banjul or Tegucigalpa, but the most likely location is Barbados (to get more specific -the Gap or Oistin Bay).

So N and E must be in the same country, which can only be the Russian Federation:
60 N is St. Petersburg
43 E? - Well, I would go for Nizhny Novgorod, if that wasn't already on 44 E. The only larger Russian towns on 43 E are Pyatigorsk and Mineralny Vody.

Nice job! You are right on St. Petersburg and San Fransisco, and I have been to both Pyatigorsk and Mineralny Vody (the latter being slightly further East). For 13 N, I have been to Barbados, but slightly further South is a small island near there - Bequia in the Grenadines. 
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« Reply #43 on: September 05, 2013, 09:54:48 PM »

N: 64N (Iceland)
S: 21N (Cancun, MX)
E: 10E (Parma, IT)
W: 122W (San Francisco)

in the U.S.

N: 42N (Boston)
S: 21N (Charleston, SC)
E: 71W (Boston)
W: 122W (San Francisco)
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« Reply #44 on: September 30, 2013, 05:10:18 PM »

                                             54.650°N: Donegal


124.415°W: south of Forks, WA                          35.483°E: Kayseri


                                         34.603°S: Buenos Aires
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« Reply #45 on: September 30, 2013, 07:05:08 PM »

North: 49.1N
South: 4.17N

East: 100.0E
West: 105.19W

Guess the locations Smiley



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« Reply #46 on: September 30, 2013, 07:17:40 PM »

North: Trondheim, Norway - 63.4N
South: Invercargill, New Zealand - 46.4S

East: Suva, Fiji - 178.4E
West: Honolulu, Hawaii - 157.8W
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« Reply #47 on: September 30, 2013, 10:18:57 PM »

North: Trondheim, Norway - 63.4N
South: Invercargill, New Zealand - 46.4S

East: Suva, Fiji - 178.4E
West: Honolulu, Hawaii - 157.8W

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« Reply #48 on: October 01, 2013, 08:14:55 AM »

N 64.3° (Þingvellir, Iceland)
S 34.4° (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa)
E 38.7° (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
W 73.9° (New York, USA)
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« Reply #49 on: February 07, 2015, 12:08:53 AM »
« Edited: February 10, 2015, 10:49:40 PM by Nutmeg »

                                             54.650°N: Donegal


124.415°W: south of Forks, WA                          35.483°E: Kayseri


                                         34.603°S: Buenos Aires

                                             54.650°N: Donegal


124.415°W: south of Forks, WA                               55.312°E: Mahé


                                         34.603°S: Buenos Aires
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