# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/21 "2009-09-30T05:10:13Z")
North: Juneau, Alaska South: Stewart Island, New Zealand East: Jabalpur, India West: Perth, Australia Highest: Around 15,000 ft in the Peruvian Andes. Lowest: About 100 ft below sea level on the Valdez Peninsula, Argentina ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/22 "2009-09-30T06:49:11Z")
North: Amsterdam South: Martinique East: Vienna West: Oahu, Hawaii ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/23 "2009-09-30T07:26:07Z")
North: Glasgow, Scotland South: Austin, TX (I might have been in Houston at some point as well, but I don’t remember it.) East: Not exactly sure about this, but somewhere in England West: Ruby Beach, WA Highest: MacDonald Pass (Highway 12), between Garrison and Helena, MT. 6299 ft. Lowest: Looks like I’ve never been appreciably below sea level, so I don’t have a good answer here. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/24 "2009-09-30T07:34:06Z")
North: Anchorage West, South: Honolulu East: Washington DC Highest: Breckenridge, CO Lowest: The beach ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/25 "2009-09-30T07:42:35Z")
South: Zárate, Argentina. North: Inverness, Scotland. West: San Francisco, California. East: Heraklio, Crete. Highest: Aneto, in the Pyrinees. Lowest: sea level. ---
**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, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/26 "2009-09-30T07:47:18Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > North: Amsterdam > South: Martinique > East: Vienna > West: Oahu, Hawaii North: Quesnel, BC South: Grenada East: Vienna West: Kauai, Hawaii I’ll be damned. Add up all the differences, and it’s probably not more than a couple hundred miles. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/27 "2009-09-30T07:50:50Z")
North: Trondheim, Norway (about 63° N) South: Sarasota, LF (about 26° N) East: Seoul, S. Korea (about 127° E) West: Somewhere near the coast of Oregon, on rt. 101 (about 124° W) Highest: Somewhere in the French or Italian alps, near Mon Blanc (about 3000, 3500 m?) Lowest: Dead Sea, Israel (~-400 m). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/28 "2009-09-30T07:56:37Z")
North: Goeteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden around 57° 42′ North South: Buenos Aires, Argentina around 34° 36′ South East: Tokyo, Japan 139° 46′ East West: Forks, Washington 124° 23′ West (never did go visit my sister in Kodiak at 152°) The lowest would have been scuba diving somewhere, at least 100 feet below sea level. I live about 10 feet above sea level, so I’m a bottom dweller. For highest, I’ve been skiing atop several mountains, but too lazy to go back and figure which was the highest. At least 14,000 feet, but probably not much more than that. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/29 "2009-09-30T08:46:25Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > 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) Pretty unlikely - the Franz Josef Glacier is very low altitude - the bottom is only about 300 metres ASL, and even the highest accessible parts are not much more than 1500 metres - lower than Denver, say! For me: North: Nordkapp, Norway, about 71º10’N South: Balclutha, New Zealand, about 46º15’S East: Viti Levu, Fiji, about 178º33’E West: Rarotonga, Cook Islands, about 159º49’W Up: Point Lenana, Mt Kenya, 4985 metres (16,355ft) Down: probably Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, which is apparently -3.4 metres (-11ft) Although having said that, the tidal range in Devon where my parents live can be as much as 10 metres, so I’ve probably been lower than that when swimming at low tide 🙂 Edit - or I suppose I could count the Channel Tunnel, which goes about 115 metres (377ft) below sea level. But that might be cheating… ---
**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/30 "2009-09-30T21:43:28Z")
Home: Midland, Michigan USA - 43 38 N, 84 11 W North: Barton-upon Humber, England - 53 41 N, 0 26 W South: Buenos Aires, Argentina 34 36 S, 58 22 E East: Munich, Germany- 48 08 N, 11 34 E West: Bangkok, Thailand - 13 43 N, 100 28 E Up: La Paz, Bolivia - 12,000 ft (3360 m) Down: Swimming in the ocean - 0 ft / m I used to travel a lot for business, and it was tiring but very interesting. I miss it sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/31 "2009-09-30T21:52:05Z")
Home town: Kaukauna, WI North: Copper Harbor, MI East / South: Sarasota, FL West: Eureka, CA Elevation High: Pikes Peak, CO Elevation Low: Sea Level Brian ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/32 "2009-09-30T22:01:11Z")
North: Amsterdam, Netherlands (which is barely north of Moosonee, Ontario…this blows my mind) South: Hollywood, Florida West: Los Angeles, California East: Athens, Greece ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/33 "2009-09-30T22:04:12Z")
North: Montreal South: Curacao East: Bermuda West: Honolulu ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/34 "2009-09-30T22:05:26Z")
North and East: Helsinki, Finland. South: Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, California. West: Tofino, British Columbia. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/35 "2009-09-30T22:06:16Z")
Northernmost: Glacier, Montana Southernmost: Orlando, Florida Easternmost: Boston, MA Westernmost: San Francisco, CA. Highest: Pike’s Peak (14,110 feet). Lowest: Sea Level: Cape Hatteras, Gulf coast, etc. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/36 "2009-09-30T22:08:33Z")
North: not quite to the Arctic Circle, on the highway north from Fairbanks, Alaska South: Cabo San Lucas, Baja California East: the island of Rhodes West: Somewhere in the wilds of Alaska, west of Anchorage High: Pike’s Peak, probably Low: Death Valley, Ca ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/37 "2009-09-30T22:33:01Z")
West: Cornwall, UK or Brest, France - not sure exactly. North: Copenhagen, Denmark East: Malmo, Sweden. South: Marseille, France. Highest/Lowest: No idea. I live in the Netherlands, so I’m below sea level quite a lot of the time… I need to get out more. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/38 "2009-09-30T22:40:05Z")
Actually, I went to Napoli, Italy decades ago: so that’s my outer east/south point. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/39 "2009-09-30T22:40:13Z")
North: Fairbanks, Alaska South: Curacao, Netherlands Antilles East: Aalten, Gelderland, Netherlands West: Sterling, Alaska Pretty mundane… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055/40 "2009-09-30T22:59:33Z")
North: Anchorage, Alaska South: Durban, South Africa West: Kauai, Hawaii East: Tokyo, Japan Lowest: Death Valley, CA Highest: Quito, Ecuador (2850m) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-extremes/512055.md?page=3)