# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/121 "2011-07-03T00:21:56Z")
Finally, someone is asking me something about personal data that I keep for reasons I’m not sure of: N: 56º 49’ N, 5º 7’ W (Fort William, Scotland) S: 24º 33’ N, 81º 48’ W (Key West, Florida) E: 37º 59’ N, 23º 19’ E (Athens, Greece) W: 49º 11’ N, 123º12’ W (Vancouver, British Columbia) This is not a particularly wide span, but the east-west expanse is 146º 7’, which is about 41% of all meridians. The north-south expanse is 32º 16’, which is about 18% of all parallels. Clearly, I need to go to the southern hemisphere and get these numbers up. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/122 "2011-07-04T12:55:27Z")
N: The vicinity of Skibotn, Norway S: Douz, Tunisia E: Larnaca, Cyprus (The airport, otherwise, Nicosia) W: Chicago (O’Hare airport, otherwise Columbus, OH) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/123 "2011-07-04T23:17:50Z")
Answers copied from a previous thread… North: Anchorage, Alaska South: Durban, South Africa West: Kauai, Hawaii\* East: Budapest, Hungary\* - I’ve been to Tokyo, Japan so can qualify as the extreme on either the E or W points, depending on your frame of reference. In fact, Durban is slightly farther east than Budapest, too. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/124 "2021-04-26T23:01:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > East: Jabalpur, India Hey @Colibri, I know it’s an old post but glad to see you visited my hometown. Did you go to there to collect fossils ? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/125 "2021-04-27T00:55:22Z")
Actually, I was was working on a forestry project. Since I last posted, I’ve been east as far as the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/126 "2021-04-27T01:54:07Z")
That’s cool @Colibri . Hope you got to see some tigers in their natural habitat. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/127 "2021-04-27T02:06:14Z")
North - New York City South - southern tip of Key West East - New York City or Tokyo depending on where you draw the line West - Himeji or San Francisco, again depending on where you draw the line ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/128 "2021-04-27T02:46:59Z")
> [@am77494](#): > > Hope you got to see some tigers in their natural habitat. Unfortunately no However, I’ve seen elephants an guar in India. ---
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I’m not well traveled. North: Kansas City. Kansas. South: Calhoun County, Arkansas West: Fort Smith, Arkansas East: Huntsville, Alabama The last one was a sort of “space camp lite” with the school science club. The northern one was a youth group trip in Missouri, and we crossed over to Kansas mostly just to say we’d been to another state. Going south was to visit relatives, and I believe going west was for a doctor’s visit, but I can’t remember what for. It may have even been to visit someone in the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/130 "2021-04-27T03:28:35Z")
I had no idea zombies traveled so much. North – Reykjavík South – Santiago East – Hong Kong West – Victoria ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/131 "2021-04-27T04:03:44Z")
It’s an interesting question still, after all these years… North: Denali National Park, AK South: Oban, Stewart Island, New Zealand East: Salzburg, Austria West: Hong Kong, China It looks like Stewart Island is the furthest from my current address, at 7800 miles ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/132 "2021-04-27T17:14:11Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Gotcha beat: I’m going on 70 times! 84 times. Meantime: S: Sydney E: Sydney W: Hawai’i N: Sognefjord, Norway ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/133 "2021-04-27T17:24:22Z")
From Washington, DC: N: Cologne, Germany S: Tulum, Mexico E: Frankfurt, Germany W: Eugene, OR ---
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71° N, Nordkapp (North Cape), Norway 35° S, Canberra, Australia 123° W, Vancouver, Canada 151° E, Sydney, Australia ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/135 "2021-04-27T17:41:17Z")
Home is Oklahoma City these day. North - Inverness, Scotland East - Berlin, Germany South - Whichever port in Mexico was farthest south on a cruise. Cancun? West - Hiroshima, Japan ---
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W: Junction, Texas (just west of Segovia) S and E: Trinidad and Tobago N: Cumberland, Maine (we were looking for Jerusalem’s Lot) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/137 "2021-04-27T18:57:20Z")
North - London - stopover on an 8th grade trip to Italy - we DID leave the airport, so I feel comfortable counting it. South - Sao Paolo East - Naples - that same 8th grade trip West - Vancouver ---
**Author:** ![LordSebasticook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@LordSebasticook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordSebasticook)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/138 "2021-04-28T17:54:55Z")
North- Gimli, Manitoba East- Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia South- Santiago, Chile West- Eureka, California ---
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North: Alaska South: Rosarita Beach, Mexico West: again, Alaska East: Germany ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135/140 "2021-04-29T18:08:07Z")
Using the Prime Meridian and the Equator as the origin point: North: Arctic icepack north of Svalbard, Norway - 80 degrees north South: Milford Sound, New Zealand West: Nome, Alaska East: Nome, Alaska (slight problem using longitude as the measuring factor). If I’m looking at miles, then west of the International Date Line, it’s again Milford Sound, New Zealand. East of the International Date Line, it’s the Cook Islands. Furthest west from London I’ve travelled continuously aiming west is Hoover Dam, USA. East, it’s back to Milford Sound, New Zealand. North and south are the same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsew-how-far-have-you-been-in-each-cardinal-direction/587135.md?page=8)