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Apparently, that only counts if you were not in an airplane at the time.
Hence the reason I never claimed the true North Pole (despite my brain fart).
Because there’s a definite difference in ‘eastness’ and ‘westness’ of your longitude. If you ignore that difference, you might as well not bother – just call Chicago 273 deg E.
Fair, though the magnetic North Pole isn’t at 0 degrees, either; it’s currently located at around 86.4 degrees north.
Title updated to reflect this.
That was the brain fart.
North: Riveire-du-Loup, New Brunswick, Canada.
East: Calais, ME.
South: Kissimmee, FL.
West: somewhere on the Oregon coast.
Now that I think about it, I spent time east of Maine in New Brunswick as well.
That makes absolutely no sense. The Prime Meridian, with 0° as its baseline, is the longitudinal reference point by definition. That’s why it’s called the “Prime” Meridian. The whole longitudinal coordinate system follows from that definition. If you want to pick some other reference point on a personal whim, help yourself.
North: the North Pole
East/West: crossing the International Date line.
South: Not sure if we went into port, but we did have a shellback initiation (in which I declined to patrticipate) crossing the equator.
It seems more practical. Except for the very few people living in far eastern Siberia and the far western Aleutian islands, 180 seems to me to be the sensible location to designate as the arbitrary end of east and west. It seems more sensible to me than saying the far east or far west starts in the middle of London.
East to West: Los Angeles to Amsterdam. Amsterdam to St Petersburg. St Petersburg to Beijing. Beijing to Los Angeles.
North: Reykjavik
South: Sydney
- North: Karasuvanto Finland (68.45 N)
- South: Lemaire Channel, Antarctica (65.5S)
- West: Tahiti (149.63W)
- East: Auckland NZ (174.78E)
N: International Wolf Center, Ely, Minnesota at 47.9 N
S: somewhere near Fort Lauderdale, Florida at about 26.1 N
E: East Machias, Maine, at about 67.4 W
W: Los Angeles, California, at about 118.4 W
I’m not that well-traveled.
- North: Ferndale, WA (48°50’ N)
- South: Mismaloya, Mex. (20°32’ N)
- West: Port Orford, OR (124°50’ W)
- East: Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, FL (80°39’ W)
North: Dublin, Ireland (53.35 N)
South: Stewart Island, New Zealand (47.00 S)
East: Auckland, New Zealand (174.76 E)
West: Cape Flattery, Washington State, USA (124.71 W)
If you are standing two feet to the east of 180, and walk four feet to the west, you move from west longitude to east longitude. And if you then turn around and walk four feet back to the east, you move from east longitude to west longitude. How can you possibly say that 180 does not separate east longitude from west longitude?
I ain’t doing Lat and Long. Mine are all in the continental USA.
N Copper Harbor MI
S St. George Island FL
E Midtown Manhattan NYC NY
W San Francisco CA
I did not say that.
You may be thinking of this quote:
That was in response to the question “What is the line we can’t cross over and still call it furthest East or West?” I meant that there is no point at which heading “east” suddenly turns into heading “west”. Obviously there are two opposite longitudes on the planet at which negative longitudes becomes positive, and vice versa.
My argument with you was about this:
Because there’s a definite difference in ‘eastness’ and ‘westness’ of your longitude. If you ignore that difference, you might as well not bother
That’s not an argument against the Prime Meridian being the reference point for longitudinal coordinates. There is no argument against it, because that’s what it is, by definition.
But this is turning into something of a hijack so I’m done with it.
I never said it was.
I also never said anything about “the official defnition”.
Ditto.