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re: Random geography trivia
Posted on 6/3/21 at 6:26 pm to Cowboyfan89
Posted on 6/3/21 at 6:26 pm to Cowboyfan89
Nagasaki Japan recorded that hottest temperature on Earth for a major city.
I may have to look that one up though.
I may have to look that one up though.
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Posted on 6/3/21 at 6:28 pm to East Coast Band
One I learned during a recent deep dive of the WW2 Pacific arena.
Looking at a list of largest islands in the world excluding continents (so Australia is disqualified) most would probably guess that Greenland is the world’s largest island, which it is by a wide margin. I was very surprised to learn that New Guinea is the 2nd largest island in the world.
Looking at a list of largest islands in the world excluding continents (so Australia is disqualified) most would probably guess that Greenland is the world’s largest island, which it is by a wide margin. I was very surprised to learn that New Guinea is the 2nd largest island in the world.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 6:39 pm to lob1284
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I was very surprised to learn that New Guinea is the 2nd largest island in the world.
At 16,024’ tall, New Guinea’s Puncak Jaya is the tallest mountain on an island.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 8:00 pm to East Coast Band
Many are familiar with this marker in Key West, FL, stating "The southernmost point in the continental US.
However, this marker is not accurate.
A more southern part of Key West Island exists and is publicly accessible: the beach area of Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park at approximately 24°32'42.2"N 81°48'34.5"W, and approximately 500 feet (150 m) farther south than the marker.
Further south, land on the Truman Annex property, just west-southwest of the buoy, is the true southernmost point on the island (approximately 900 feet (270 m) farther south near 24°32'39.2"N 81°48'17.8"W), but it has no marker since it is U.S. Navy property and cannot be entered by civilian tourists.
Finally, the true southernmost point in Florida (as well as in the continental United States) is actually 10 miles away at Ballast Key (24°31'15.9"N 81°57'49.5"W), an island south and west of Key West.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 8:03 pm to lob1284
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I was very surprised to learn that New Guinea is the 2nd largest island in the world.
I would have guessed Borneo or Madagascar.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 8:42 pm to East Coast Band
The most southernmost driveable spot by automobile in Louisiana is actually Port Fourchon and not Venice.
For years, I always thought it was Venice having to travel down there to visit family there back in the 1980s and 90s. Driving down 23 felt like an eternity despite no traffic lights south of Belle Chasse and 4 lane roads most of the way (Except Port Sulphur (still 2 lanes) and one section near Myrtle Grove which is now 4 landed).
It was typically a 3-hour drive from my house in Cut Off to see my Dad's family. Then you had the 3-hour drive back.
For years, I always thought it was Venice having to travel down there to visit family there back in the 1980s and 90s. Driving down 23 felt like an eternity despite no traffic lights south of Belle Chasse and 4 lane roads most of the way (Except Port Sulphur (still 2 lanes) and one section near Myrtle Grove which is now 4 landed).
It was typically a 3-hour drive from my house in Cut Off to see my Dad's family. Then you had the 3-hour drive back.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 8:44 pm to LSUBoo
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quote: I was very surprised to learn that New Guinea is the 2nd largest island in the world.
I would have guessed Borneo or Madagascar.
Hell, I read New Guinea and pictured Madagascar in my head!
Posted on 6/3/21 at 9:59 pm to East Coast Band
I’ve always wondered about that Key West fact. It’s obvious on any map that it’s not the Southernmost point.
Posted on 6/4/21 at 9:14 am to Auburn80
The average summer temperature in San Diego is the same as the average summer temperature in Fairbanks, AK, 72 degrees.
Posted on 6/4/21 at 11:16 am to Tarps99
quote:Venice or Cut Off?
It was typically a 3-hour drive from my house in Cut Off to see my Dad's family. Then you had the 3-hour drive back.
Cut Off or Venice?
Posted on 6/4/21 at 1:27 pm to Globetrotter747
quote:Anyone mentioned that little piece of Washington State that's at the tip of a Canadian peninsula? Point Roberts?
Some people have mentioned examples of enclaves
Posted on 6/4/21 at 1:28 pm to East Coast Band
New York City and Naples Italy are on the same latitude (40°N).
The first foreign country you encounter when traveling due south from Detroit is Canada.
The first foreign country you encounter when traveling due south from Detroit is Canada.
This post was edited on 6/4/21 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 6/4/21 at 1:47 pm to clarke
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There are at least 100 uncontacted tribes of people around the world that have no idea outside modern society exists, aside from aircraft flyovers. The vast majority are in the remote Amazon Rainforest but there are also tribes in Africa and India.
Poor guy painted in red was probably sacrificed later that evening as an offer to the gods flying above them
Posted on 6/4/21 at 2:43 pm to Snoop Dawg
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An 1863 Act of Congress, signed by President Lincoln, which separated Arizona from New Mexico, specified that the dividing boundary should be coincident with the 32nd meridian of longitude west of the Washington (DC) Meridian. The Washington Meridian, which had been in use since 1850, was defined as bisecting the dome of the old Naval Observatory, situated at a longitude of 77 degrees 03 minutes West (for simplicity, longitude values presented here are rounded to the nearest arc minute). In fact, the boundaries of 11 western states are similarly longitude-referenced to the Washington Meridian, and not the Greenwich Meridian. This practice was in place in the U.S. until 1912, when our nation adopted Greenwich as its standard longitude reference.
Love this stuff
Posted on 6/4/21 at 2:49 pm to East Coast Band
There is a town in New South Wales, Australia named Louisiana.
Posted on 6/4/21 at 3:17 pm to TheFonz
Flying to Managua, Nicaragua from Miami is 70 minutes faster (or closer) than flying from Miami to New York.
Posted on 6/24/21 at 9:06 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 6/24/21 at 9:16 pm to cajunduby
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Point Nemo is officially known as “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” or, more simply put, the point in the ocean that is farthest away from land. The spot is quite literally the middle of nowhere, surrounded by more than 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction.
That’s where they aim the satellites that need to crash land back onto earth. Gives them the most buffer from hitting anything.
Posted on 6/24/21 at 9:16 pm to East Coast Band
Reno is west of Los Angeles
Posted on 6/24/21 at 9:30 pm to AlxTgr
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Point Roberts?
It is almost a ghost town. Canada will not allow entrance (and hasn’t for over a year). The ferry is pretty much the only way in of out.
People have moved out in droves.
Damn shame.
On another note, the point in the planet opposite of my hometown (Covington) is in the Indian Ocean. We sailed by it in 1989 during my stint in the Navy. My “Shellback” certificate gives the coordinates.
This post was edited on 6/24/21 at 9:34 pm
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