Furthest latitudes and longitudes you've visited

[Mr. Morden]

In terms of where I've been on land:

North: 53 N (Manchester, UK)
South: 43 S (Hobart, Tas, Australia)
East: 175 E (Auckland, NZ, though if you exclude airport layovers, then 153 E (Gold Coast, Qld, Australia)
West: 123 W (Victoria, BC)

Of course, measuring it like this is kind of problematic.  Note that I said "on land".  The farthest north I've actually been would have to be when I was in a plane, presumably either on a Philadelphia-Manchester flight that I made in 2007, or the London-Chicago flight in 2011.  Because of the mapping of great circles onto the globe, those intercontinental flights take you farther north than either the departure or destination city.

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.

[Mr. Morden]

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.

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. 

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.