Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re anchorage & great circles & voronoi
Date: Oct 14, 2001 @ 22:58
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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>From: "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>_________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re anchorage & great circles & voronoi
>Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 01:34:55 -0000
>
> > can anyone say whether there is any point or preferably any
>populated place
> > more blessed than anchorage in the sense of being farther from any
>national
> > capital
>
>Somewhere near the South Pole must edge out Anchorage, since that
>would be >45 degrees = >5000km from the nearest capital - Wellington.
>A little displacement away from the South Pole along the Greenwich
>meridian would farther increase that distance, because the South
>African capital(s) are well north of the 40S line. So somewhere in
>Queen Maud Land, maybe 80-ish south?
>
>Grant
>