Millionaire quiz: Which is the Southern most US state?
Nov 19th, 2001, 11:42 PM
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Millionaire quiz: Which is the Southern most US state?
General knowledge quiz for the millionaire wannabes:
Quick,which is the southern most US state?
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.
Quick,which is the southern most US state?
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.
Nov 20th, 2001, 05:52 AM
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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.
This rules out Guam, the Virgin Islands,
and any other sand spits lying around that fly the American Flag.
This rules out Guam, the Virgin Islands,
and any other sand spits lying around that fly the American Flag.
Nov 20th, 2001, 01:04 PM
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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.
Nov 20th, 2001, 06:10 PM
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Patrick: you answered your own question.
China and Japan are in the easternmost part of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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.
China and Japan are in the easternmost part of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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.
Nov 20th, 2001, 06:46 PM
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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!
Nov 25th, 2001, 08:27 AM
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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.
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.
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.
