Subject: Re: Really Arbitrary Points
Date: Jun 22, 2001 @ 21:51
Author: bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
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It is also marked in Maine. I think I have seen it on Route 1.
There is a monument and a plaque that says something about
being "halfway to the north pole". But then, everywhere is halfway
to the north pole from somewhere!

BJB

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Beckett, Bob" <Bob.Beckett@c...> wrote:
> in vermont (usa) the 45th parallel is marked on the interstate
highway.
> just south of the border station.
>
> bob beckett
> hollis, new hampshire
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ross Finlayson [mailto:finlayson@l...]
> > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:23 PM
> > To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Really Arbitrary Points
> >
> >
> >
> > >I always wonder if anywhere the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic
of
> > >Capricorn are marked???
> >
> > Yes, I have seen the Tropic of Cancer marked on a highway
> > north of San Jose
> > del Cabo (southern Baja California, Mexico). I imagine that
> > it's marked in
> > several other parts of Mexico also.
> >
> > I have also seen the Tropic of Capricorn marked in a couple
> > of places in
> > Australia: near the city of Rockhampton (Queensland), and
> > north of Alice
> > Springs (Northern Territory).
> >
> > Also, the Artic Circle is marked in several places in
> > northern Europe and
> > North America (& probably Siberia as well). E.g., I have
> > seen it marked
> > near Lulea, Sweden.
> >
> > Interesting question: is the *Antarctic* Circle marked
> > anywhere. (This
> > would have to be in Antarctica, of course.)
> >
> > Ross.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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