# What is the furthest north, south, east and west you've ever been? (By Longitude please.) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653 "2026-03-21T13:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/142 "2026-03-23T16:46:41Z")
North - Vassenden, Norway South - Aruba West - Kitsap Peninsula, Washington State East - Bar Harbor, Maine ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/143 "2026-03-23T16:52:12Z")
North: Reykavik Iceland, 64N South: Western Region Ghana 5N East: Dover UK 1E West: Big island Hawaii 156W ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/144 "2026-03-24T00:15:41Z")
I’ve crossed all meridians from Incheon, Korea (126E) going eastwards to Ephesus, Turkey (27E). I’ve crossed all lines of latitude from Cebu, Phillipines (10N) going northward to Skagway, Alaska (59N). ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/145 "2026-03-24T00:41:07Z")
Furthest S and E: Sydney, Australia: 33^o,37’ S, 151^o,12’ E Furthest W: Oahu: 138^o W Furthest N, Sognefjord, Norway: 61^o N. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/146 "2026-03-24T00:45:57Z")
North, Dawson City, Yukon 64°03′36″N South, Mcmurdo Station Antarctica 77°50′47″S East, Gisborne New Zealand 178° 00’ 15.01" E West Honolulu, Hawaii 157°51′W Not counting flying over the international dateline, just places I have set foot. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/147 "2026-03-24T02:06:52Z")
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/148 "2026-03-24T02:35:32Z")
Only counting places I have spent some time as opposed to transiting. North: Probably Hamburg: 53.6 South: Rarotonga in the Cook Islands -21.3 East: Narita Airport (Tokyo): 140.4 West: Rarotonga again: -159.8 Grrr. My 20 year old son has me beat on three ordinates having been to Syndey, AUS and Longbearbyen in Svalbard. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/149 "2026-03-24T04:14:18Z")
North: Giant’s Causeway - 55°14’ N South: South coast of Maui - ~20°30’ N East: Dublin - 6°30’ W West: Pearl Harbor - 157°57′ W I really would like to travel more and more widely. It’s been mostly Disneyland and Maui, with a Caribbean cruise and an epic tour of Ireland as the two “big ones” of my adulthood. ---
**Author:** ![Ian29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Ian29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian29)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/150 "2026-03-25T15:15:30Z")
It is a fairly pointless exercise, as it depends on your starting point. One person’s east is another’s west. But as I live just 6 miles from the prime meridian (that’s 0° longitude to you folks) the 180° line does represent furthest east and west for me. So: North - Helsinki, Finland South - Dunedin, New Zealand West - Vancouver, Canada East - Napier, New Zealand ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/151 "2026-03-25T15:30:52Z")
> [@Ian29](#): > > But as I live just 6 miles from the prime meridian (that’s 0° longitude to you folks) the 180° line does represent furthest east and west for me. It is similar for me, as I live only 7° east of the null meridian, the furthest away eastern and western places I’ve been to are in the same directions from Greenwich. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/152 "2026-03-25T21:46:34Z")
It’s true of anyone who’s never crossed the 180º line, which can be the case even for folks who live well away from the Greenwich line. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/153 "2026-03-25T22:26:08Z")
North (2022): Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, 64.85N, -147.84W South (2022): Punta Arenas, Chile, -53.16S, -70.90W (6 mo after ^) East (1992): Rome, Italy, 41.89N, 12.49E West (2010): Hanalei, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 22.20N, -159.50W ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/154 "2026-03-25T23:07:59Z")
The furthest north I’ve been is Anchorage, Alaska, during the winter of 2019/2020 while on TDY. From there I took a Gulfstream G450 to Shemya Island. That’s an… interesting place. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/155 "2026-03-25T23:15:51Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > Only counting places I have spent some time as opposed to transiting. I _almost_ want to count Scotland even though the OP specifically prohibits traversal by air, but I did see it from a plane and that experience was notable to me because of how many golf courses there were. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/156 "2026-03-25T23:34:10Z")
North: Nordkapp, Norway, 71.17°N (2014) South: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, -37.86°S (2012) East: Sydney, NSW, Australia, 151.24°E (2012, a few days prior to the one above) West: Weimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii, -159.67°W (2017) ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/157 "2026-03-26T12:35:37Z")
South: bottom of Bonaire about 12.02N East: Moscow 37.6E West: I can’t fully remember, I’ve been to Sunnyside, WA, 120W, but I think I might have stayed a bit further west in Oregon on that same trip. North: Kolka, Latvia, 57.76N. Isle of Skye is close, being about 57.68N. I’ve driven/ridden a motorcycle from pretty far north in Maine, south to Key West, Florida, west to LA, and Sunnyside, WA. Seems I’ve been east to west driving, on different trips, from Lisbon, Portugal, and Riga, Latvia except for about a degree in France where I’ve never really driven. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/158 "2026-03-26T14:01:19Z")
South: Esquel, Chubut, Argentina North: Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy West: Orlando, Florida, USA East: Marathon Beach, Greece. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/159 "2026-03-26T15:20:01Z")
North: 90.00°N (Crossed over the North Pole by submarine. We didn’t surface there, but did surface elsewhere in the Arctic and walked around on the surface of the ice pack.) South: 12.03°N (Southernmost point of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands) East\*: 34.83°E (Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey) West\*: 158.20°W (Waianae, Oahu, Hawaii) \*However, we circumnavigated the North Pole (and the Arctic Ocean under the ice cap) by submarine and so technically crossed all of the longitude lines, including the antimeridian (and the International Date Line). > [@LSLGuy](#): > > **N** : Last year I went on an arctic Norway cruise that was supposed to land as far north as Tromsø @~ +69.6 +18.9. For weather, we never made it that far north and instead turned back at Trondheim @~ +63.4 +10.4. At Tromsø we’d have broken the Arctic circle. At Trondheim we did not. Missed it by ~3 degrees. Arrgh! Our submarine had a port visit in Tromsø after another Arctic mission, but we traveled south to get there. 😉 > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > North: the North Pole Were you on a submarine too? If so, I never realized that (or that you were in the Navy, for that matter). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/160 "2026-03-26T15:47:30Z")
> [@robby](#): > > Were you on a submarine too? If so, I never realized that (or that you were in the Navy, for that matter). Yes indeed. USS Tautog (SSN 639) and USS Queenfish (SSN 651) 1983-1987. Both are probably razor blades now. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653/161 "2026-03-26T16:25:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > [@robby](#): > > > > Were you on a submarine too? If so, I never realized that (or that you were in the Navy, for that matter). > > Yes indeed. USS Tautog (SSN 639) and USS Queenfish (SSN 651) 1983-1987. Both are probably razor blades now. Nice! I was on the USS _San Juan_ (SSN 751), which was the first 688-class submarine to surface through the ice up in the Arctic (which happened while I was onboard). She was pretty new when I was onboard over 30 years ago, but I believe she is now in the process of being decommissioned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-furthest-north-south-east-and-west-youve-ever-been-by-longitude-please/1028653.md?page=9)