North: Ostersund, Sweden - 63 N
South: Bangkok, Thailand - 13 N
I can’t quite figure out if we’re using the Prime Meridian for judging east and west, or if we’re talking the furthest we’ve traveled from our present positions.
If we’re using present positions:
West: Baoshan, Yunnan Province, China - 99 E
East: Ankara, Turkey - 32 E
If we’re dealing with latitude:
West: Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii - 159 W
East: Tokyo, Japan - 139 E
(But I might be going to Kwajalein Atoll next month - 167 E!)
I don’t win either, despite doing a fair bit of travel.
North: Fairbanks, Alaska, USA (64:49:48N)
South: Buenos Aires, Argentina (34:42:30S)
East: Wairoa, New Zealand (177:25:02E)
West: Puhi, Kauai, Hawaii, USA (159:32:02W)
North: Bethel Alaska 60:48 N
South: Ho Chi Minh City 10:47 N
East: Cam Ranh Bay 109:12 E
West: False Pass Alaska 162:20 W
North: Regina, Saskatchewan (50° 26’ N)
South: Cienfuegos, Cuba (22° 17’ N)
East: Old Orchard Beach, Maine (70° 24’ W)
West: Yellowstone National Park, Montana/Wyoming (app. 111° W)
I’m only 44, so there’s plenty of time left for me to literally broaden my horizons…
Thanks for that - is this an Inuit settlement or a scientific base or both or something else?
78°S - Unless someone has been up the Axel Heiberg (don’t say that in polite company) or some such, we probably have a winner. Come on Hanofer, tell us all about it.
Alert was set up as a listening station but now it’s used as military refueling and such - or so I’m told. Who knows, could have been an outpost on the DEW line.
East: Budapest, Hungary
West: Kuaui, Hawaii
South: Cancun, Mexico
North: Jasper, Alberta
Down: Lincoln tunnel (maybe)
Up: About 30000 feet or so. Airplane
I was stationed in Christchurch, NZ (Navy), when my Chief asked me if I’d like to go to the Ice for 30 days. Of course I said yes (how many people get to go to Antarctica?) Got a award out of it, too (Antarctic Expeditionary Medal).
So I went down, while some lucky sod took my place in Christchurch. McMurdo looks (c. 1982) like an old west town, with wooden buildings and dirt streets. Steam heat keeps the place warm, but it was hard getting used to 24/7 daylight (I went in November). The base is as the foot of Mt. Eberus, Antarctica’s only active volcano, and every once in a while you’d see steam coming out of it.
Near the base was a wooden hut left over from the 1910 Antarctic Expedition. You were allowed to visit it, and inside was all the stuff they’d left behind, like tins of food, dried seal meat hanging on the wall, old lanterns. Very interesting. Also got to visit our neighbors at Scott Base (NZ), crawl into an ice cave and see a seal colony. Got close enough to one big guy to touch it. Very smooth fur.
So now I got braggin’ rights, though I wish I’d gotten a chance to visit the South Pole, like some of the guys did.
North:Edinburgh
South:Christchurch,NZ
East:Greenwich
West:Launcheston, Tasmania
North: Bar Harbor, ME - 44N, 68W
South: Key West, FL - 24N, 81W (Turns out it’s further South than Nassau, Bahamas.)
East: Umm… Bar Harbor, ME - 44N, 68W :o
West: Los Angeles, CA - 34N, 118W
Ooh, let me play!
North: North Cape, Norway: 71:10N
South: Balclutha, New Zealand: 46:10S
East: Nausori, Fiji: 178:40E
West: Aitutaki, Cook Islands: 159:50W
Altitude: Point Lenana, Kenya: 4,985m (16,350 ft)
I’ve gotta be up there with the leaders…? 
Don’t have time to read everyone’s but:
North - Niagra Falls, Canada.
West - Chicago, Illinois, or Green Bay, Wisconsin, not sure which is further.
East: Boston, I think a touch further each then New York City
South: Treasure Island, Florida (just south of Tampa)
North - Seattle, WA, USA 44:36N
South - Belize City, Belize 17:30N
East - Munich, Germany 11:34E
West - Waimea, HI, USA 159:40W
Coos Bay, OR
Tijuana, Mexico
Scranton, PA
Pacific Ocean
Yours is a story of almosts. Your furthest north is only minutes short of the current leader at Point Barrow. Your latitudinal spread would have been the greatest until Hanofer came along with his Antarctic adventures. Yours is 117°, wheras his is 125°. Given your extremes of east and west, you’re in with a shout for the “overall” title if I can think of a fair way to determine that.
I find it pretty humorous that Ginger Of The North hasn’t been the furthest north. I did spend more time up North than anyone else, though. Cold comfort (haha!) but I’ll take it.
Guess my next trip had better take in both Ellesmere Island and the Amundsen-Scott base at the South Pole!
For East-West hunters, head for the island of Taveuni in Fiji - the 180° meridian passes through it, so with just a quick stroll you can claim your 360° spread…
Not that I would expect anyone other than my own sad self to have read all of this thread but both Colibri and pipper have both been there and done that.
Ah yes. :smack:
I read all of page 2 but I somehow missed those ones…
North - Willow, AK
South - Ka Lae, HI
East - Jerusalem, Israel
West - Honolulu, HI