Millionaire quiz: Which is the Southern most US state?
 

General knowledge quiz for the millionaire wannabes:<BR><BR>Quick,which is the southern most US state?<BR>Please list your choice w/o giving geographical facts or correcting others. Just wanna see how many people know.I'll give you the correct answer in a couple of days.

Hawaii. Continental US, Florida.

Most southern state is Florida with Key West being only 45 miles from Cuba. (most southern point of the USA

Hawaii. I've stood at the southernmost point of the US.

Key West. Duh.

Guam?<BR>

Physically- Hawaii.<BR>Spiritually- Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and non-Atlanta Georgia.

Just kidding about Guam being a state, but the southernmost part of Hawaii is further south than Key West, by several degrees, is it not?

I take back my "duh" comment in my earliler post. I just asked Jeeves, and Hawaii is the southernmost state; Key West, Florida is the southernmost mainland state. Nuff said.

OK, now tell us what the eastern most, northern most and western most points are. All 50 states are to be considered but no territories or possessions.<BR>This rules out Guam, the Virgin Islands, <BR>and any other sand spits lying around that fly the American Flag.<BR>

East, west, and north in Alaska. One of the Alaskan islands is on the 'other' side of the international date line.

Give ncgrrl a rose.<BR>I got caught on it the first time I heard it. Even though my Dad was on Adak with the military for a brief tour, I did not wake up to the trickiness of the question.<BR>

Wouldn't the Prime Meridian i.e. Greenwhich, mark the line between east and west?

I heard that thing about Alaska having the Eastern most point in the US also. It seems a little confusing, but if you still consider it going west after crossing the international date line, then why wouldn't we call China and Japan the Far West instead of the Far East? I guess technically going from the prime meridian (Greenwich) west to the international date line is considered Western Hemisphere and going from the prime meridian east to the international date line is considered the Eastern Hemisphere. Right? So, yes, I guess that far Aleutian island is the Easternmost point in the USA.

Patrick: you answered your own question.<BR>China and Japan are in the easternmost part of the Eastern Hemisphere.<BR>But if you are speaking of direction relative to the US, they seem west. But the conventions which define the hemispheres make them east without relative considerations.

Yes, I meant to answer my own question, I think, but right now I'm so confused. I believe you have to think of easternmost and westernmost in terms of the hemispheres rather than just a direction. Otherwise you'd have to admit that New York is west of Los Angeles, because if you keep going west you'd eventually get to it. But within its own hemisphere it is more eastern. And we'd certainly not normally say that New York is further west that Los Angeles!

Part of the Aleutian chain does extend past 180 degrees weast longitude. There is no question that 174 degrees east longitude qualifies it for the eastern most point in the U.S.

The International Dateline actually jogs around the 180th meridian to allow all of the Aleutian chain to be in the western hemisphere's day rather than tomorrow. Of the inhabited Aleutian islands, only Attu (only a coast guard station and occasional bird and WWII researchers) is west of the 180th. The Date Line does the same in the South Pacific to keep some of the island nations on the same day, although poor Kiribati is split, making government administration a confused thing. <BR><BR>US government travel reimbursement forms used to ask fliers why they didn't take the train on their government travel, and the form required that one put down the location of the nearest train station to the destination. Flying out the Aleutians, we used to put down "Vladivostok" in that space.