Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Center of Europe<br/>
Date: Dec 09, 2000 @ 01:18<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-771146074">The www.auslig.gov.au site has a page of facts on Austrlaia&#39;s geography <br/>
(which i posted last week with regards to state borders), including 5 <br/>
different methods of locating the centre, and they are shown on a map.<br/>
Europe could also be done following  those methods. But given the more  <br/>
interesting coastline (seas, inlets, etc) or europe, ie it is not convex <br/>
like Austrlaia, a simple averaging of extremities will produce a more biased <br/>
figure.<br/>
<br/>
Aparently the centre of NSW is marked by a cairn in a remote locaiton sort <br/>
of near to Dubbo.<br/>
<br/>
The Stats bureau of NZ located the POPULATION centre of NZ from the last <br/>
census. The US has donw the same for all censuses, and the point makes an <br/>
interesting westward migration, turning south recently.<br/>
Has any other country done this? Austrlaia hasn&#39;t.<br/>
<br/>
Brendan<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;From: &quot;Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:jesniel@...">jesniel@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Reply-To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@egroups.com">BoundaryPoint@egroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;To: &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@egroups.com">BoundaryPoint@egroups.com</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Center of Europe<br/>
&gt;Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 18:52:57 +0100<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Anyone else want to have a go on where the center of Europe is?<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Jesper<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;notes in answer to questions someone raised earlier<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;easternmost europe appears to lie on crest of north urals at about 66 <br/>
&gt;east<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;longitude<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;center of europe computed by simply averaging geocoords of extremities<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;is about 29e longitude & 53 or 54n latitude<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;which falls perhaps 100km southeast of minsk<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;surprise<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;however this is probably quite distinct from the true geographic <br/>
&gt;center<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;which i havent a clue how to compute<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; btw does anyone know this<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; m<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
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