> > 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.

good thinking ordinarily
except here
french polynesia & new caledonia both make up in latitude what
they lose to wallis & futuna in longitude

> 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)

good show
by different means i got 9974 statute miles

> / 24,900 statute miles, the circumference of the Earth at the

equator, IIRC,

> gives:
>
> 0.4003678714859437751004016064257