Where is the northernmost and southernmost points you've ever been to?

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for me, northernmost on land: Jasper, Alberta.
in air: over the Bering Sea en route to Hong Kong
southernmost on land: probably Cancun, Mexico

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

apologies for grammatically-challenged thread title.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Fairbanks, Alaska/Reykjavik, Iceland
S: Hong Kong maybe?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Moscow
S: Key West, FL

― the krza (krza), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

northernmost on land: edmonton
air: bering sea en route to taipei

southermost: sydney

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah I dunno where HK's latitude is in relation to Mexico. Also have been to Thailand, which is further south than HK.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Northernmost to date: Anchorage, Alaska USA
(Northernmost as off late June: Reykjavik, Iceland)
(Northernmost as off possibly further into the future: Fairbanks, Alaska USA -- which is actually north of Reykjavik)

Southernmost to date: New Orleans, LA USA
(Southernmost in the possible near future: Hawaii)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess if we're counting air, northernmost for me would be somewhere over the tip of Greenland.

― the krza (krza), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

north: seattle
south: buenos aires (which is apparently farther away from california than moscow)

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, my only reason for wanting to visit Australia and New Zealand in the future is to expand my XXXTREEEM LATITUDINAL RANGE, MAAAAAAAN

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

North: St. Petersburg, Russia
South: Punta Gorda, Belize

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I so want to go to Buenos Aires.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

North: Bergen Norway
South: Cape Leeuwin Western Australia

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

northernmost in air - somewhere above the greenland sea, above the arctic circle, bluenosing in the navy

northernmost on land - akureyri, iceland
southernmost - whichever is further south between winter haven, florida and tunis.

db if you fly in keflavik and you're on the road outta the airport and you notice one light pole is a bit crookeder than the rest that was me, i did that.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been on a tiny island called "A" (pronounced "Orrr") off of the Northern coast of Norway, many miles above the Arctic Circle.

The southernmost I've been is probably Belize or Guatemala. Or Naples?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

North: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
South: Cancun, Mexico

― webcrack (music=crack), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

North: Iceland
South: Stewart Island

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

if you fly in keflavik and you're on the road outta the airport and you notice one light pole is a bit crookeder than the rest that was me

if you eat at the Aktu Taktu fast food restaurant in Reykjavik and see a puddle of vomit just outside the door, that was me

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

okay according to Mapquest Bangkok is further south than Tulum, Mexico, so that's my new answer.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(...positive we've had a few threads like this before...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

stence gets his kicks ABOVE the waistline sunshine!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

dude there's nothing more embarassing than walking around Patpong with your mom.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

/shudder

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Tampere, Finland
S: Galveston, USA

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Dundee, Scotland?
S: Sydney

Highest: Mt. Shasta
Lowest: Death Valley!

― andy, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Northernmost: Canada
Southernmost: Florida

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

ooooh highest/lowest is a good one too!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

highest for me is a 14K peak (forget the name) in Colorado. Lowest is probably New Orleans.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Chicago, IL. Oh wait, I went to Madison, WI a couple of weeks ago, so there.
S - Hong Kong.
Highest - Ladakh, India (in the Himalayas).
Lowest - ?

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Toronto or Edinburgh
S - Sydney

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

N-Moscow
S-Hua Hin, Thailand

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

We've already done this thread

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And this has unchanged since then

N: Fairbanks, Alaska
S: whatever the southernmost point on the Great Ocean Road is in Australia

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Glasgow, I think
S: I think Puri in India beats Madeira, but the maps might prove me wrong.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, sorry. Isn't East/West a bit subjective, tho?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, sorry. Isn't East/West a bit subjective, tho?

Not really. It's all based on how many degrees east or west in longitude you are. Outside of Antarctica, I don't recall there being a landmass that sits on the 180 degree line.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah but the prime meridian isn't based on anything other than "hell why don't we just put a line here?!?" Or am I missing something?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think there are too many people on this thread who can claim to have danced around the south pole and, therefore, claim to have been throughout the entire range of eastness and westness as possible. There is also this thing called the International Date Line, which, while not a straight line, pretty much defines east and west.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

You're probably right, but I have been to Four Corners, so there.

I think the Prime Meridian was also chosen based on the fact that it's only divisible by itself and one.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the IDL is just as arbitrary as time zones, db.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

that's what I use to define east and west only because it defines when a day starts, which seems to work well with the east-west sync.

Obviously, all of this is subjective.

Case in point:

http://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/rotatedmap-large.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

northernmost: iceland
southernmost: florida

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah but the prime meridian isn't based on anything other than "hell why don't we just put a line here?!?" Or am I missing something?

Technically it was "hell, why don't we just put a line here because no one uses those old Portuguese maps anymore"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post to db:

or I guess what I mean is north and south are sorta pretty much defined by poles (which shift, imperceptibly, over time), but longitude and time zones were devised by humans to define space.

yeah we're all east to some dude in Beijing but some unreconstructed types here still would call that dude an "Oriental."

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

aaah, well if we defined east and west only in relation to where each of us was, then the whole east-west thing would be pointless. I'm talking about defining east and west according to current global standards.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

and I'm arguing that "current global standards" are somewhat arbitrary.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

They are. But the standards are set nevertheless. And they have pretty much been adhered to for a long time.

And by these standards, the closest thing to being a definition of east and west -- as an absolute and not relative -- is how far into the day are you compared to the rest of the world.

But I could very well be mistaken. Is it based on the Prime Meridian? If that was the case, then our fellows in Greenwich should be having the grandest east vs. west war evah!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

their agreed usage makes them a shared truth, or de facto objective. ie, i can say moscow is west of paris, but no one would agree with me.

i think shared references make things 'workable truths', i think most things work this way. take borders, duluth is america, thunder bay is canada. why? the borders are just lines drawn by imperial powers, but people agree that on one side there are canadians and on the other americans, its not a truth as such, but its a consensual agreement, which becomes de facto objective

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

following the above logic, one could argue that africa is completely arbitrary, none of those borders are anything but arbitrary, but, they exist, and millions and millions of people live with them as they are. i dont see how this is any different from east west. or why anyone in botswana would want to say anything other than that namibia was to the west of them. arbitrary or not, im not sure what else they could say!

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Things only get tricky near the IDL though, as it's not a straight line. You could actually be "west" of an island, but still be almost an hour behind that island. This is only in relation to trying to say who is more "East" or "West".

Also, gareth otm.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe people are talking about how far they've travelled east and west, as opposed to where they have been in relation to the Prime Meridian or International Date Line, therefore confusing the question?

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Some things are plainly to the west - there is a direction defined by the rotation of the planet. But the dividing line is very arbitrary. It could just as easily be through the Atlantic, so that the farthest East I'd been would be New York (even though I'd have travelled west to get there - I don't suppose this logic stops Californians calling China the Far East.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

North: Inverness, Scotland (wicked, wicked cold when I was there a few years ago & it was only October!)
South: Hobart, Tasmania

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

North - Saskatoon
South - Brownsville

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

N: New Territories
S: Te Anau

I wouldn't mind going to Tromsø.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Edmonton. S: Tampa is south of LA or Houston, isn't it?

Despite having gotten much closer to the North Pole than the South, I'm still more curious about going norther.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 29 April 2004 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Florida is America's wang!

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 April 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Scottish Highlands (Loch Luichart or thereabouts)
S: the island of Chiloe, off the coast of southern Chile.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 29 April 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Lips.
S: A few inches above the knee.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 29 April 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, Casuistry Chris. :)

For me:
N: Vancouver, B.C.
S: Guadalajara, Mexico

As you can tell, I'm obv the far-flung traveler. *snort* Not.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 29 April 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

N: London, I believe. If not, in Britain, nevertheless.
S: San Diego

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Northern and Westernmost: Whistler, BC
Southermost: Sarasota, FL
Easternmost: Somewhere in Queens, NY

― Stuart (Stuart), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Somewhere in Scotland, Isle of Skye maybe
S: Orlando, lame I know

Basically, my whole life's been between the 20th and 60th northern parallel.

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 29 April 2004 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

North: Invergordon (yes, a few miles North of Inverness, but those few miles count!)

South: The Cake of Good Soap, I mean, Cape of Good Hope. Or that other point at the bottom of South Africa, but I can't remember its name. I've been to them both and been told by various tourguides that they were the Southernest tip of Africa.

The furthest West I've been is Vancouver Island. The furthest East I've been is... not very far East at all. Prossibly Frisia. Knock knock, is Chaucer in?

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 29 April 2004 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

South
Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino on Tierra del Fuego, Chile. It bills itself as the 'southern most town in the world' and sneers at Ushaia across the Beagle Channel in Argentina which claims the same.

You can send a letter from the Post Office at the End of the World and get an end of the world passport stamp.

North
Not sure, either Finland or Scotland, whichever is further north.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

North: the Butt of Lewis, Scotland.
South: Rüdesheim (sp?), on the Rhine.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Northerly - Inverness/Skye
Southerly - Barbados

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

North: Tallin, Estonia.
South: Mombassa, Kenya.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Camden
S: Lambeth

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think mine have changed since here:

North-South-East-West

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i win for the northern point, ive been to inuvik, as for south...washington dc most likely. (ky in a week)

― anthony, Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Edinburgh
S: Marrakesh

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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