I’ve been in a helicopter flying over Treriksröset (the northernmost point of Sweden, where Finland, Norway and Sweden meet), at 69’4" N. If helicopters fall under the airplane restriction I’ve been on foot in Abisko at 68’21" N.
As for the southernmost point, I’ve been to Crete at 35 N.
North: Edmonton, AB 53 degrees N
South: Melbourne, VIC 37 degrees S
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada - 60 deg N
St. Martin in the Caribbean - 17 deg N
North–Kotlas, Russia, 61 degrees 15’ N
South–Hastings, NZ 39 degrees 40’ S
Wow, there’s a pretty good number of people (over half of the people posting to this thread) who have never been in the Southern Hemisphere at all!
N HEM NORTH: Calgary AB Can - 51 N
N HEM SOUTH: Honolulu HI USA - 21 N
S HEM NORTH: Cairns QLD Aus - 16 S
S HEM SOUTH: Auckland NZ - 36 S
Northernmost: Willow, AK 61 44’ 50" North
Southernmost: Ka Lae, HI 18 54’ 49" North
I first crossed the Equator at the age of 2 – I don’t remember it, but I do know that I was travelling north at the time.
North: Edinburgh, Scotland 55.96° N
South: Miami, Florida 25.77° N
Northernmost: Probably Berlin, Germany, at about 52 degrees N
Southernmost: St. George’s, Grenada, 12 degrees N
I think I win at northern most (so far):
78.13° N – Longyearbyen (Svalbard)
It’s tough to beat that unless you made a trek to the North Pole.
Southern most:
1.17° N – Singapore
Pt Barrow, Alaska. Forget exactly, but it was a bit more than 71 degrees N.
I expect robby and casdave can probably beat most people for most northward, being submariners; equally, I expect they probably can’t tell us about it.
Fairbanks, AK 64°50"N
New Orleans, LA 29°57
Icelandic interior, around 64.50 North.
Probably around 26.50 North as the most southernly I’ve ever been. Pathetic, I know.
Fairbanks, Alaska, 64 degrees north, Acapulco, Mexico, 16 degrees north.
North: Horn Island, Australia 9° S
South: Invercargill, New Zealand 46°42’S
North: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
South: Orlando, Florida.
So it looks like alanak is the most extreme for the north bracket. What were you doing up there anyway? What is it like? Cryptoderk wins in the south at 51. Cryptoderk wins the widest spread, at about 111 deg. too.
I thought we might have some polar explores on board, but I guess the Dope skews intelligent.
It looks like you have the record for “southernmost northern extreme”. 