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The highest peaks in the world are on the same latitude as New Orleans
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:15 pm
Crazy, huh?
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Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:17 pm to JuiceTerry
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:17 pm to JuiceTerry
I just lost my mind for five seconds reading the OP and looking at his av.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:19 pm to JuiceTerry
Places in Mexico and Africa are farther north than New Orleans. not sure what percentage of louisianans can't say "down there" when referencing Africa or Mexico. I haven't checked to see if oil city is farther north than all of Mexico or Africa
This post was edited on 7/4/16 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:29 pm to JuiceTerry
I stopped climbing when Everest Fest took over
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:36 pm to Kafka
What's Everest? 29,000? And Nola is -5 or something. Pretty incredible disparity.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:41 pm to JuiceTerry
It's like a 25,000 mile line. shite happens.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:48 pm to JuiceTerry
Everest isn't the tallest mountain on earth.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:56 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Mauna Kea?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 11:57 pm to RogerTheShrubber
If you're on top of Everest, you're higher up than any other mountain. I think.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:12 am to JuiceTerry
Yeah it's the highest altitude, but it's not the tallest from base to summit, that's Mauna Kea.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:16 am to Honest Tune
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Mauna Kea?
If you include underwater, yep. Land based, it's Denali and Mt. St. Elias.
Chimborazo is actually higher from the earths center than Everest. The earth is a spheroid, not a circle.
Denali rises 18,000 feet base to summit, Everest only rises 12,000 base to summit.
Denali is massive. You can see it easily from Anchorage, almost 200 miles away
This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 12:23 am
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:25 am to weaveballs1
So the highest peak is Everest. It's really not the point. I was just stoned looking at a large map, which I like to do. I just thought it was interesting that the same latitude could produce a nearly tropical feeling city and also the Himalayas. The Earth is full of surprises.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:30 am to JuiceTerry
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So the highest peak is Everest. It's really not the point. I was just stoned looking at a large map, which I like to do. I just thought it was interesting that the same latitude could produce a nearly tropical feeling city and also the Himalayas. The Earth is full of su
Hey man, hey....the Equater runs through the hot arse pacific islands and the cold arse Andes peaks....
Crazy...
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:31 am to JuiceTerry
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The earth is full of surprises.
That's some truth.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:32 am to JuiceTerry
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So the highest peak is Everest. It's really not the point. I was just stoned looking at a large map, which I like to do. I just thought it was interesting that the same latitude could produce a nearly tropical feeling city and also the Himalayas. The Earth is full of surprises.
Geography is my favorite subject. There's a really good thread on City-Data entitled Oddities of Geography. You could spend days exploring stuff there, it's awesome.
Such as Barcelona and Chicago are at the same latitude, as are New York and Naples Italy.
This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 12:35 am
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:39 am to JuiceTerry
Yeah, it's kind of hard to think Rome is roughly the same latitude as the lower latitudes of Canada
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:41 am to RogerTheShrubber
See I love maps like that. I'll check that out.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:48 am to JuiceTerry
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See I love maps like that. I'll check that out.
Yeah, some of the distance ones are mind blowing.
Here's some geographic anomalies.
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Alaska's Near Islands in the Aleutians are closer to Tokyo, Japan, than they are to Alaska's state capital of Juneau.
Southernmost Algeria is farther from Algiers than is London, England.
The distance from Petropavlovsk, in easternmost Russia, to Moscow is about the same distance as from Petropavlovsk to Denver, Colorado.
The Atlantic end of the Panama Canal is west of the Pacific end.
Main is closer to Africa than Florida
This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 12:50 am
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