Subject: Re: Hammerfest or?<br/>
Date: May 14, 2005 @ 17:43<br/>
Author: Henry Hirose (&quot;Henry Hirose&quot; &lt;silentcity@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-375352098">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Kevin Meynell &lt;knm@m...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;Well, the question is: which is the uppermost northern TOWN in <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the world?<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; Its one of these questions similar to &#39;What is the tallest <br/>
 </span></blockquote>building in the <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; world?&#39;. It depends on how you define it.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I totally agree.  Here is one usable definition:<br/>
<br/>
What is the northernmost year round settlement?<br/>
<br/>
By this definition, it&#39;s Alert, Canada.  But since it&#39;s a military <br/>
base, you can come up with another definition that avoids bases:<br/>
<br/>
What is the northernmost year round civilian settlement?<br/>
<br/>
Don&#39;t have an asnwer to that one so I will leave it open for <br/>
others.  How about this one?<br/>
<br/>
What is the northernmost human settlement?<br/>
<br/>
What I have often pondered are their southern equivalents:<br/>
<br/>
What is the southernmost year round settlement?<br/>
What is the southernmost year round civilian settlement?<br/>
<br/>
While the former will obviously yield the answer &quot;Amundsen-Scott <br/>
Base&quot;, it can be rewritten in other ways:<br/>
<br/>
What is the southernmost year round settlement not on the continent <br/>
of Antarctica?<br/>
<br/>
The standard answer to the latter is Puerto Williams, Chile on <br/>
Navarino Island south of the Beagle Channel.  But looking at maps, I <br/>
see bunch of names south of there.  Puerto Toro is one of them and a <br/>
few websites have this as the southern most settlement.<br/>
<br/>
Cheers, HH</div>