NSEW: How far have you been in each cardinal direction?

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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.

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N: The vicinity of Skibotn, Norway
S: Douz, Tunisia
E: Larnaca, Cyprus (The airport, otherwise, Nicosia)
W: Chicago (O’Hare airport, otherwise Columbus, OH)

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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.
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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 ?

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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.

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That’s cool @Colibri . Hope you got to see some tigers in their natural habitat.

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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

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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.

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I had no idea zombies traveled so much.

North – Reykjavík
South – Santiago
East – Hong Kong
West – Victoria

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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

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84 times. Meantime:
S: Sydney
E: Sydney
W: Hawai’i
N: Sognefjord, Norway

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.