----- Original Message -----
From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 3:51 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: farthest known place from its government

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell <kevin@m...> wrote:
> > Certain islands in French Polynesia might be further from Paris than
> Wallis
> > and Futuna.
>
> I stopped at Wallis, because the further around the globe I went, the
> closer to Paris I came going the other way around. I tried to locate
> the possession furthest south that was as close to half way around the
> world as I could get.

Using http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm and the cia's factbook value
of 13:18 S, 172:12 W for Wallis and Futuna and a USA Today
(http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/climate/wparis.htm) climate page
value of 48:44 N, 2:24 E for Paris, I get:

Course 1-2: 6.067567156210406
Course 2-1: 351.0430027462413
Distance: 8662.964717165108 nm

= 9969.161772588668 statute miles (Using
http://www.boatsafe.com/tools/scale.htm)

/ 24,900 statute miles, the circumference of the Earth at the equator, IIRC,
gives:

0.4003678714859437751004016064257