# NSEW: How far have you been in each cardinal direction? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135 "2011-06-28T14:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/41 "2011-06-28T18:11:59Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Hmm, turns out Bremerhaven, Germany is farther North than Winnipeg. That’s my new Northernmost location. Similarly, I didn’t consider Paris when I said that Vancouver is my farthest north. It turns out that Vancouver just barely wins. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/42 "2011-06-28T18:21:35Z")
Home: Washington, DC North: Norilsk, Russia, above the Arctic Circle South: Cusco, Peru East: Bali, Indonesia West: California (how far east do you go before you are actually west of DC?) ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/43 "2011-06-28T18:32:56Z")
North: Copenhagen, Denmark. South: St. Kitts, Dutch Caribbean East: Sifnos Island, Greece West: San Francisco, CA Now I want to travel. > [@](#): > > (how far east do you go before you are actually west of DC?) Halfway. ---
**Author:** ![A.Gwilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@A.Gwilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.Gwilliam)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/44 "2011-06-28T18:36:10Z")
N: probably the Loch Lomond area in Scotland E: south coast of Viti Levu in Fiji S: Christchurch in New Zealand W: Rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/45 "2011-06-28T18:40:28Z")
N: St. Petersburg, Russia E: Auckland, New Zealand S: Dunedin, New Zealand W: Kauai, Hawaii ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/46 "2011-06-28T18:46:57Z")
N. Leningrad (St. Petersburg now, but this was in 1986) E. Novgorod S. Orlando, FL W. Olympic National Park ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/47 "2011-06-28T18:53:31Z")
North: London, England South: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii East: Rome, Italy West: Honolulu, Hawaii (technically, I guess it would be Pearl Harbor) I’ve lived all my life in Sacramento, CA. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/48 "2011-06-28T18:54:33Z")
North would have to be Anchorage Alaska on the ground, but I’ve flown over the North Pole several times on flights. East: Sicily South: Loreto, Baja California West: Incheon, Korea ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/49 "2011-06-28T18:56:39Z")
I’m not counting air travel, it’s too hard to figure out. So just on land: North: Anchorage, Alaska South: Big Island, Hawaii West: Honolulu, Hawaii East: Tokyo, Japan ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/50 "2011-06-28T19:02:40Z")
North: London, England East: Naples, Italy West: Pacific Ocean (all up and down the West coast) South: Key West, Florida I’m only counting where I was on the ground because I’m not sure what route my flights took. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/51 "2011-06-28T19:31:26Z")
North: Fairbanks, Alaska South: Hobart, Tasmania East: Moscow, Russia or Arusha, Tanzania (it looks like Arusha gets the edge here) West: Freemantle, Western Australia, or Bejing, China (I think Freemantle wins this battle) ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/52 "2011-06-28T19:39:37Z")
Hmm, I should probably refigure, using the 180th meridian. East: Wellington, New Zealand West: Kona, Hawaii ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/53 "2011-06-28T19:40:35Z")
North= Berlin, Germany W- Mexico City, Mexico S- Foz de Iguacu, Brazil E= Istanbul, Turkey ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/54 "2011-06-28T19:49:28Z")
I’ll play! N: Northern Greenland S: Nicaragua E: Amman, Jordan (far enough E to be W almost!) W: Hawaii Not bad, but it could be better. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/55 "2011-06-28T19:49:55Z")
North – Reykjavik, Iceland (the airport and a brief excursion out onto the tarmac); otherwise Hamburg, Germany, or possibly Bremen, depending on exactly where I was in each East – Berlin, Germany South – probably Ocho Rios, Jamaica West – San Francisco Limiting it to North America: north – a little above Sioux Lookout, Ontario; east – Belfast, Maine; south – Miami airport or Orlando, FL. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/56 "2011-06-28T20:03:42Z")
North - Edinburgh South - Italy East - Japan West - USA ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/57 "2011-06-28T20:14:09Z")
North: Barrow, AK 71-17-26N South: Johannesburg, SA 26-12-00S West: Adak, AK 176-39-29W East: Guam, Marianas Islands 144-46-59E If only I’d made it to Attu, AK at 173 degrees east, when I was stationed on Adak. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/58 "2011-06-28T20:19:44Z")
North - Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland South - Puerta Vallarta, Mexico East - London, UK West - Kauai, Hawaii ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/59 "2011-06-28T20:21:16Z")
West: Bagan, Myanmar East: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania North: Helsinki, Finland South: Punta Arenas, Chile ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/60 "2011-06-28T20:24:59Z")
N: London, England, UK W: San Francisco, CA, USA E: Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan\* S: Ocho Rios, Jamaica \*I traveled west to get there. The flight was across the Pacific. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135.md?page=4)