# Your geographical extremes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055 "2009-09-30T01:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/1 "2009-09-30T01:09:16Z")
I’m going on vacation to Costa Rica tomorrow, which reminded me of a thread like this from a couple years ago: What are the northernmost, southernmost, westernmost, and easternmost places you have ever been in the world? Where are the highest and lowest points on earth you’ve ever been? North: Vancouver, British Columbia South: Cuzco, Peru West: Cannon Beach, Oregon (west of Portland) East: Beijing, China Highest: ? (probably somewhere near Cuzco or Machu Picchu) Lowest: Dead Sea, Israel (lowest point on land on Earth) I’m not counting airplane rides. Otherwise I could say I was close to the North Pole when I flew to Beijing from Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/2 "2009-09-30T01:22:04Z")
Heh…I had to look at a map. I have no understanding of spheres. North = International Falls, Minnesota, USA South = Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA East = Niagara Falls, New York, USA West = Astoria, Oregon, USA Highest = Beartooth Pass, Montana/Wyoming, USA Lowest = Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA I’m kind of a homebody, I guess–or too poor to travel far. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/3 "2009-09-30T01:42:00Z")
North: Minneapolis, Minn South: Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala East: Sea of Galilee area, Israel West: Los Angeles, Calif Lowest: Dead Sea, Israel Highest: dunno … maybe Clingman’s Dome, Smoky Mtns ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/4 "2009-09-30T01:50:23Z")
North: 89° 16’ (on the Arctic Pack Ice). Or Station Nord, Greenland (on Land) 81° 36’ South: Cayenne, French Guiana East: Baikonur, Kazakhstan West: Kodiak, Alaska. Highest: White Mountain Peak, California 14,246’ Lowest: Bad Water, Death Valley Nat’l Park -281’ (?) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/5 "2009-09-30T01:52:56Z")
East/North: Edinburgh West: Carnarvon, Western Australia South: Dunedin, NZ Low: Badwater High: Mt Whitney ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/6 "2009-09-30T02:15:44Z")
North: The Upper Peninsula of Michigan West: California East: Japan South: Florida ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/7 "2009-09-30T02:17:25Z")
North: Vancouver, British Columbia South: Miami, Florida East: Venice, Italy West: Kāʻanapali, Hawaii Lowest: somewhere in Death Valley Highest: somewhere in the Rocky Mountains ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/8 "2009-09-30T02:42:16Z")
Well, the furthest east and west isn’t particularly well defined given that one is going around the earth, but in terms of direction of travel away from home, North - Where I live - Edmonton Alberta South - Southern tip of the South island of New Zealand East - My geography is lousy; whichever of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, or Yugoslavia (I went when those were the correct names) is furthest east. West - New Zealand Up - Probably the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand (I say probably because I have been in the Rocky Mountains, but I’m pretty sure Franz Josef is higher than I have ever managed up here) Down - I have no idea ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/9 "2009-09-30T02:56:27Z")
North: Anchorage, Alaska, USA South: Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia West: Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia East: Dresden, Germany Highest Elevation: 2998 Metres above sea level. Lowest Elevation: Sea Level. Doesn’t look like much when you write it out like that, does it? Especially when you could argue that Indonesia was as far east as I’ve travelled as well as west and south… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/10 "2009-09-30T03:02:50Z")
before I can answer the farthest north question, I need to find a web-site where I can plug in the name of a place and get the latitude. anyone have any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/11 "2009-09-30T03:22:26Z")
N: Labrador City S: Palmer Peninsula, Antarctica E: Mykonos, Greece W: Guangzhou China (heading W from N. America) Up: Rossland BC 1023 meters up Down: Tongue of the Ocean Bermuda, coupla hundred meters down - Don’t remember the exact depth, but I stayed for more than 20 minutes. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/12 "2009-09-30T03:22:35Z")
Not counting airline flyovers, both my northernmost and easternmost points are Ireland (Giant’s Causeway and Wicklow respectively), and both my southernmost and westernmost are Maui (Makena and Ka’anapali respectively, unless you count on a boat off the coast, or Honolulu International). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/13 "2009-09-30T03:32:48Z")
West: Nanaimo, British Columbia North: Sechelt: Birtish Columbia East: Cape Cod, Mass, perhaps someplace in Maine South: Cuernavaca, Mexico, (I think it is further South than the Cayman Islands) Highest: Copper Mountain, Colorado Lowest: New Orleans ---
**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:** [September 30, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/14 "2009-09-30T03:32:54Z")
also Up: 10,000 feet at Heavenly Ski Resort Down: A little more than 100 feet down on the back wall of Molokini Crater ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/15 "2009-09-30T03:33:42Z")
North: Juneau, Alaska South: The Bahamas West: Honolulu, Hawaii East: Paris, France Highest: Probably Denver, Colo. Lowest: Snorkeling in the Bahamas, I think ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/16 "2009-09-30T03:51:25Z")
Found one. So, using the test of “which way did I travel from home?” to determine farthest east and farthest west: Farthest North: Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada: 60° 43′ 0″ N Farthest South: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: 37°48′49″S Farthest West: Ayers Rock / Uluṟu, Northern Territory, Australia: 131°01′07″E Farthest East: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India: 77° 58′ 48″E Up? Down? Dunno. I’m from the Prairies. We don’t do heights. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/17 "2009-09-30T03:55:37Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > before I can answer the farthest north question, I need to find a web-site where I can plug in the name of a place and get the latitude. anyone have any suggestions? Google Earth is a free download. Just Google it. For me, since flying doesn’t count. I guess West would be Honolulu, East would be Taipei, South would be probably Singapore (I think it is further south than Costa Rica) and North I’m really not sure… Maine or Quebec probably… maybe somewhere in Ontario… I was little so I’m not really sure. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/18 "2009-09-30T04:26:42Z")
I was just thinking of reviving this thread. North: Probably Quesnel, British Columbia (about 53° N), when I was very young. A close second would be Berlin, Germany (about 52° 30’ N). South: Point Salines airport in Grenada (just a skosh north of 12° N). East: Vienna, Austria (about 16° 20’ E). West: Somewhere on Kauai, Hawaii (about 159° W). Highest: Probably Tioga Pass in the Yosemite high country (9,945’ elevation). Lowest: The visitor center in Death Valley (-190’ elevation). I’ve been through some under-sea-level tunnels, under the Hudson River and Boston Harbor, but I don’t think they go more than 190 feet below. A bit of trivia, the highest and lowest were on consecutive days. > [@Purgatory\_Creek](#): > > West = Astoria, Oregon, USA > > Lowest = Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA That can’t be right. The lowest elevation in Minneapolis is 686’, and Astoria is right on the coast. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/19 "2009-09-30T04:37:56Z")
North: Helsinki, Finland South: Ushuaia, Argentina West: Kauai East: Fiji Highest: Some pass going to Colca Canyon in Peru. I think it was around 5200m. Lowest: Badwater, Death Valley ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/20 "2009-09-30T04:58:55Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > North: Vancouver, British Columbia > South: Miami, Florida > East: Venice, Italy > West: Kāʻanapali, Hawaii > > Lowest: somewhere in Death Valley > Highest: somewhere in the Rocky Mountains Thanks to **Robot Arm** , I realized that I need to change my answer for North to Ghent, Belgium (51°02’N), which is a bit further north than Vancouver (49°14’N). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055.md?page=2)