The best practical visualization of any great circle on a map is to stretch a
string between the two terminal points on the surface of a globe. Most folks
don't have a globe lying around, but most libraries do.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:50 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] widest isthmus measured but largest peninsula still
elusive
>
> some slight additional progress has been made toward
> determining the worlds largest peninsula
>
> for starters
> the coords of the termini of its isthmus
> also evidently the worlds largest of its kind
> have been carefully noted
> to the best of my limited ability
> specifically
> nlat 63d40m x elong 37d48m
> on onega gulf of the white sea
> &
> nlat 30d30m x elong 48d54m
> on an iranian inlet of the persian gulf
>
> but that is accurately enough for a much improved
> trial balance to be based upon & to proceed from
> if only i could figure out how to superimpose an image
> of the great circle arc that would join these terminal
> points
> onto an outline map of the countries it would cross
> particularly russia & azerbaijan & iran
> all accurately enough to permit reasonably good
> estimates of the proportions of the territorial areas
> of those countries that would fall to either side of
> the isthmus
>
> but can anyone help with that or toward that
>
> & it probably wouldnt even have to be extremely
> terribly accurate for the trial to be successful
> either
> since
> again
> the margin of imbalance isnt very likely to be so
> razor thin that it would matter
>
> indeed our remaining without a sure winner at this
> late hour hasnt been due so much to any precision gap
> as it has been to an understanding gap
> til recently anyway
> & as it is due now to a technique gap
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> for the moment
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> but i think the puzzle is very solvable in due time
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> um
> & being temporarily stumped in the original direction
> i did at least take some substitute gratification in
> determining the length of the worlds longest isthmus
> since i could
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> 3768 kilometers
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>
> um
> & it has also occurred to me that another good name
> for the winning peninsula
> whichever lobe it is
> might be
> daedalus 9
> as in the surreal line score of the event
> daedalus nine
> peninsula dead
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> hmm
> maybe i could get the guinness people to help me out
> with this trial balance demonstration
> since they will need it to be satisfied themselves in
> the end
>
> & they might take an active interest in such a
> definitive winner once they realize one can be had
>
> but i guess the trick will be in convincing them that
> such a monster of a winner would still be a peninsula
>
> it does boggle the mind a bit
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