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« Reply #25 on: May 07, 2015, 03:20:06 PM »

Northernmost: Loch Lomond, Scotland
Southernmost: Cape Otway Lighthouse, Victoria, Australia
Easternmost: Brisbane, Australia (Where I live and am from)
Westernmost: Loch Lomond again.
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« Reply #26 on: May 07, 2015, 03:50:31 PM »

Northernmost:  Just north of Anchorage, Alaska
Southernmost:  Jamaica
Easternmost:  Delhi, India
Westernmost.  Anchorage, Alaska
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« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2015, 10:03:31 PM »


                                             54.650°N: Donegal, Ireland


124.415°W: south of Forks, Washington                       55.529°E: East Coast Road, Victoria, Seychelles


                                     34.638°S: La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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« Reply #28 on: May 08, 2015, 08:34:34 AM »

North: Scarborough, UK
West: Penzance, UK
South: Palma di Mallorca, Spain
East: Neusiedl, Austria
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« Reply #29 on: May 10, 2015, 10:32:14 PM »

North: Greater Solovetsky Island, Russia, approximately 65 degrees North.
South: Somewhere along the Great Ocean Road, Australia, 38+ degrees South
East - well, I guess it would be Tokyo, Japan.
West - must be somewhere around San Francisco, CA
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« Reply #30 on: May 11, 2015, 01:10:58 AM »

Northernmost: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
Southernmost: somewhere in the Canchis Province of the Cuzco Region of Peru
Westernmost: Olympic National Park, Washington, USA
Easternmost: Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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« Reply #31 on: May 11, 2015, 01:49:20 AM »

Northernmost: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
Southernmost: somewhere in the Canchis Province of the Cuzco Region of Peru
Westernmost: Olympic National Park, Washington, USA
Easternmost: Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ты никогда не был в великой стране?
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« Reply #32 on: May 11, 2015, 04:56:42 PM »

Northernmost: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
Southernmost: somewhere in the Canchis Province of the Cuzco Region of Peru
Westernmost: Olympic National Park, Washington, USA
Easternmost: Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ты никогда не был в великой стране?

В великой стране живу Smiley
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« Reply #33 on: May 11, 2015, 06:35:41 PM »

N. Lund, Sweden
E. Shanghai, China
S. Shanghai, China
W. Vancouver, BC, Canada
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« Reply #34 on: May 11, 2015, 06:37:23 PM »

North: Toronto, Canada
West: San Jose, CA
South: Santiago, Chile
East: Rome, Italy
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« Reply #35 on: May 11, 2015, 07:01:59 PM »

East: Hong Kong
West: Kauai
North: Vancouver
South: Hilo, Hawaii
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« Reply #36 on: May 11, 2015, 07:58:21 PM »

World
North: Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia
South: Maui, Hawaii
East: Rome, Italy
West: Kauai, Hawaii

North American mainland
North: Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia
South: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
East: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Cape Canaveral, Florida if we're excluding airports)
West: Either Cape Blanco State Park, California or somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula
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« Reply #37 on: May 11, 2015, 09:14:17 PM »

North: Portstewart, Northern Ireland
South: San Jose, Costa Rica
East: London Heathrow Airport
West: Surprise, Arizona
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« Reply #38 on: August 09, 2015, 09:27:40 AM »

Updated after my trip to the Pac NW.

North: 56.7 N (Montrose, Scotland)
South: 27.8 S (Florianopolis, Brazil)
East: 37.8 E (Moscow, Russia)
West: 123.5 W (Butchart Gardens, BC, Canada)
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« Reply #39 on: August 09, 2015, 11:49:31 AM »

                                             54.650°N: Donegal, Ireland


124.415°W: south of Forks, Washington                       140.317°E: Narita, Chiba, Japan


                                     34.638°S: La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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« Reply #40 on: August 09, 2015, 12:41:39 PM »

North: Danvers, MA (just north of Boston)
South/East: Punta Cana, DR
West: Wickenburg, AZ (about an hour northwest of Phoenix, though this will change in a few days when I head to Los Angeles for the first time)
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« Reply #41 on: August 09, 2015, 02:21:30 PM »

N: Quebec, Quebec
S: Georgetown, Cayman Islands
E: Cape Town, South Africa
W: Calgary, Alberta
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« Reply #42 on: December 18, 2015, 12:55:30 AM »

I realized that I've busted through all of my geographic extremes this year except going further south:

Furthest North: Southfield, MI (2006) Brussels Airport, Belgium (2015)
  - in US: Kerry Park, Seattle, WA (2015)
South: Key Largo, FL (2007)
East: BWI Airport in Baltimore, MD (2014) Rail leading to Termini, Rome, Italy (2015)
  - in US: east side of Onassis Reservoir in Central Park, New York, NY (2015)
West: The Galleria in Houston, TX (2009) Kerry Park, Seattle, WA (2015)
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« Reply #43 on: December 18, 2015, 01:57:47 AM »
« Edited: December 19, 2015, 02:31:04 PM by Thinking Crumpets Crumpet »

North: Keflavik Airport, Iceland (63°59'44" N) (2011)
South: Just Northeast of downtown Singapore (1°19'11" N) (2011)

By latitude/longitude:
East: Narita Airport, Japan (140°23'21" E) (2011)
West: Just West of Kauai (159°48'25" W) (2008)

By heading:
East: Binsar, India (79°45'46" E) (2010)
West: Lat Krabang, Thailand (100°44'24" E) (2011)
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« Reply #44 on: December 18, 2015, 02:42:03 AM »

The missus and i want to have our dream vacation on svalbard. I play this when we do. Smiley
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« Reply #45 on: December 18, 2015, 02:44:44 AM »

My answer is unchanged from the last time we had this thread:

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.


But if we're adding years, then:

Manchester (2007)
Hobart (2010)
Auckland (2008) or Gold Coast (2012, I think)
Victoria (2008)

What about "closest to the Equator that you've been on land"?  I'm visiting Kuala Lumpur next week, which I think is 3 degrees North, so that'll be my personal record in terms of proximity to the Equator (at least on land...I've obviously flown over the Equator before).
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« Reply #46 on: December 18, 2015, 05:50:36 AM »

N: London (51 N)
S: Honolulu (21 N)
E: Greenwich (0 E/W)
W: Honolulu (158 W)
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« Reply #47 on: December 18, 2015, 06:56:08 AM »

North - Nashua, New Hampshire
South - The Villages, Florida
East - Nashua, New Hampshire
West - San Diego, California
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« Reply #48 on: December 18, 2015, 08:52:49 AM »
« Edited: December 18, 2015, 08:54:52 AM by muon2 »

I can make an update for 2015 as well.

North: 56.7 N (Montrose, Scotland, UK, 1995)
South: 27.8 S (Florianopolis, SC, Brazil, 1994)
East: 37.7 E (Moscow, Russia, USSR, 1989)
West: 122.9 W (Sonoma County, CA) 123.5 W (Butchart Gardens, BC, Canada, 2015)
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« Reply #49 on: December 18, 2015, 10:16:20 AM »

North: Mackinac Island, Michigan (c. 2003)
South: San Antonio, Texas (2002)
East: Sandusky, Ohio (2007)
West: San Antonio, Texas (2002)

I'm hoping to expand out in the future.
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