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11 March 2008

Four corners What are the North-, South-, East-, and Westernmost places you've been?→[More:]
Me:
N: Narvik, Norway
S: Quellón, Chile
E: Amman, Jordan
W: Port Orford, USA

post by: signal at: 13:47 | 48 comments

N. Iceland
E. Hong Kong, China
S. Georgetown, Guyana
W. California, USA

posted by TheophileEscargot 11 March | 14:03

N: Leningrad (as it was called then)
S: Hobart, Tasmania
E: Sydney, Australia
W: San Francisco, USA

posted by essexjan 11 March | 14:03

N: Courtenay, BC
S: Monterrey, Mexico
E: Bath, Maine
W: Sooke Harbor, BC

I'm a North American girl.

posted by mudpuppie 11 March | 14:05

North: Fairbanks
South: San Juan, PR
East: San Juan
West: Anchorage

posted by netbros 11 March | 14:05

N: Terrace, BC, Canada
S: Nuevo Laredo, TX, USA
E: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
W: Kitimat, BC, Canada

(Had to verify that Terrace is slightly North of Edinburgh by one degree.)

posted by deborah 11 March | 14:07

N: Moscow, RU
E: Tokyo, JP
W: Eureka, CA, US
S: Puket, TH

I really want to make it to the Southern Hemisphere.

(deborah -- Nuevo Laredo is in Mexico, Laredo is in Texas)

posted by birdherder 11 March | 14:15

N: Anchorage, Alaska
S: Orlando, Florida
E: Ljubljana, Slovenia
W: Homer, Alaska

posted by occhiblu 11 March | 14:16

N: Niagra Falls, Canada
S: Belle Isle, Louisiana
E: Cape Cod, Massachussets (That's a guess without looking at a map.)
W: Phoenix, Arizona

posted by rainbaby 11 March | 14:17

East is correct. I need to get more travel on.

posted by rainbaby 11 March | 14:19

North: Vancouver Island, BC
South: Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, MX
West: Honolulu, HI
East: JFK Airport, Queens

(bonus round. . .lived in Port Orford, the westernmost city in the contiguous USA)

posted by danf 11 March | 14:25

Port Orford, the westernmost city in the contiguous USA

Really? On my map, it looks like both Eureka and the Olympic peninsula are farther west.

posted by mudpuppie 11 March | 14:31

North: London
South: Key West
East: Budapest
West: Portland, OR

(I admit, I had to look up some latitudes and longitudes.)

posted by jrossi4r 11 March | 14:47

N: Niagara Falls, Canada
S: the Dry Tortugas (70 miles west of Key West, FL)
E: Plymouth, MA
W: San Francisco, CA

posted by BoringPostcards 11 March | 14:54

North...Maryland. South, Ft Lauderdale. West, L.A., and east, Thailand.

posted by bunnyfire 11 March | 15:16

N: Bangor, ME [on the way to and from:]
E: Machias, ME
W: San Fransisco, CA
S: Aruba

Yeah, that's pretty boring. And if it wasn't for my girlfriend, I'd never have left the country. The furthest south point would be approximately Tampa.

posted by Eideteker 11 March | 15:31

N: John O' Groats, Scotland, UK
S: Bintan, Indonesia
E: Tokyo, Japan
W: Kahului, Maui, Hawaii

Map. That was fun. I need to push south.

posted by chrismear 11 March | 15:39

These are all guesses without looking at a map.

N: Alaska
S: Mexico
E: England
W: California

posted by box 11 March | 15:47

N: Reykjavik.
S: Melbourne Airport.
E: Newcastle, New South Wales (very slightly east of Sydney).
W: San Francisco.

posted by plep 11 March | 15:55

N: Oxford, UK
S: Porto Alegre, Brasil
E: Paris, France
W: Kona, Hawaii

posted by Joe Invisible 11 March | 16:06

Well, North and South are obvious, but East and West are relative ;-)

From where I am now:
N: Seoul, South Korea
S: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
E: Whakatane, New Zealand
W: Weipa, Queensland, Australia

posted by dg 11 March | 16:12

Really? On my map, it looks like both Eureka and the Olympic peninsula are farther west.

Nope. Cape Blanco is the westernmost point other than AK and HI, and Port Orford is like a bit south and east of it. And, it's really the only distinguishing fact about it, so please don't take that meager distinction away from them.

posted by danf 11 March | 16:16

W: Kona, Hawaii

If you flew through Honolulu, that is west of the Big Island.

Just sayin' cause I was going to say Kona also, but Honolulu is a lot west of that.

posted by danf 11 March | 16:17

N: Kilkenny, Ireland
S: Playa del Carmen, Mexico
E: Rome, Italy
W: Honolulu, Hawaii

posted by middleclasstool 11 March | 16:23

N: I think Reykjavik is a little further north than Leningrad but I've been to both.
S: The Galapagos/Ecuador
E: Tokyo
W: Honolulu

posted by ooga_booga 11 March | 16:28

N: Jämsankoski, Finland (a small place near Jyväskylä)
E: Voronezh, Russia
S: Padova, Italy (boarded a bus to Venice there early in the morning)
W: Valdagno, Italy (a town near Padova)

I did a map as well.

posted by Daniel Charms 11 March | 16:29

N: Aleutian Islands
S: Philippine Islands

I'm not sure where east stops and west begins, but I've pretty much been around the world. Japan, Phils., Hong Kong, Dubai, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and of course the US.

Never been below the equator, though.

posted by deadcowdan 11 March | 16:31

N: Arctic Circle, Alaska
S: Honolulu, Hawaii
E: Paris, France (though I'd loved to have said Attu Island, Alaska)
W: Nome, Alaska

posted by rhapsodie 11 March | 16:47

North: Reykjavik
South: Christchurch, NZ
East/West is relative: furthest I've gone traveling east is Budapest; furthest I've gone traveling west is New Zealand.

posted by scody 11 March | 17:11

N: Seattle
S: Rosarito, Mexico
E: Florence
W: Hong Kong

posted by halonine 11 March | 17:44

North: Stoke-on-Trent, UK ... oo, wait, no, sorry, Kiel, DE
South: Wailea, HI, USA
East: Kitzbuehl, Austria
West: Lahaina, HI, USA

posted by lonefrontranger 11 March | 18:17

North: Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
South: South Point Road, on the island of Hawaii, US
East: Burlington, Vermont, US
West: Lihue, Hawaii, US

I don't get out much, do I?

posted by bmarkey 11 March | 18:35

North: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
South: Dunedin NZ
East: Napier, NZ
West: Dublin, RoI

posted by pompomtom 11 March | 18:35

North: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, CA
East: Bar Harbor, ME
South: Key West, FL
West: Sedona, AZ

posted by Miko 11 March | 18:48

birdherder, you're right!

PS: Wish I had thought to do a map earlier.

posted by deborah 11 March | 19:02

(pompomtom: Dublin's a fair bit north of Amsterdam)

North: Hermaness, Shetland Islands, UK
South: Dubai, UAE
East: Dubai, UAE
West: Somewhere on I-5, southern Oregon, if the Greyhound from Portland to Sacramento went that way.

posted by cillit bang 11 March | 20:18

Oh damn, I missed this.

N: Inverness, Scotland
S: Stewart Island, New Zealand
E: Fiji
W: Victoria, Canada

posted by gaspode 11 March | 20:56

and I just assumed the most east would be +180 longitude. Right?

posted by gaspode 11 March | 21:15

cillit bang: You know, thinking about it, you're quite right. I was a bit vague on the North (I almost put Luton). It's all a bit weird and freaky on the wrong side of the equator.

Gaspode: I was thinking 'first to see the new day' for East... so as close to the dateline without (gasp) travelling backwards in time!!

posted by pompomtom 11 March | 21:56

North: Belfast, UK
South: Melbourne, AUS
East: Sydney, AUS
West: San Francisco, USA

Google Map

posted by eamondaly 11 March | 22:13

(By 0,0 lat/long, for lack of a better definition of "center". What with being on a sphere and all.)

posted by eamondaly 11 March | 22:19

North: Anchorage
South: Olavarria, Argentina
East: New Delhi
West: Anchorage

posted by rumple 11 March | 23:45

North: Sundborn, Sweden (the Carl Larsson cottage)
East: Stockholm (possibly the Kaknästornet, but I don't remember all the side trips)
South: Key West
West: Grants Pass, Oregon (where I-5 turns back east)

Special Bonus Continental U.S. Round:
North: Ironworld, Chisholm, Minn. (then the pedantically-named Iron Range Interpretative Center, with a brochure explaining why they didn't call it the Interpretive Center)
East: York, Maine

posted by stilicho 12 March | 01:45

N. Arlanda airport, Stockholm, Sweden
S. The Strait of Gibraltar
E. Istanbul
W. Halifax airport, Nova Scotia

posted by misteraitch 12 March | 02:02

N. Anchorage (or somewhere somewhat north of there)
E. Island of Ikaria, Greece
S. Carara, Costa Rica
W. Anchorage (or somewhere somewhat west of there)

posted by taz 12 March | 02:24

Hm...measuring from the intersection of the prime meridian and the equator (0N, 0E).

N: Sigulda, Latvia
E: Tokyo Narita Airport
S: Pameungpeuk, Java, Indonesia
W: Mendocino, California

posted by mdonley 12 March | 02:46

N: Saareselka, Finland
S: Curitiba Brazil
E: Tokyo
W: Brazil also, or north of the equator but still west probably Hierro, Canarias.

posted by Wilder 12 March | 03:21

N: Narvik
S: Dry Tortugas
E: Mariehamn
W: SF

posted by tangerine 12 March | 13:03

Huh, I guess 'easternmost' and 'westernmost' are fairly arbitrary. You could say the furthest west and east you've been from your birthplace, under 180°.

posted by signal 12 March | 14:07

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