I will provide my proposed answers for the Americas:

1. Nuwuk, Alaska, USA (on Point Barrow about 9 mi. NE of Barrow)

2. Alert, Nunavut, Canada

3. Point Barrow, Alaska, USA

4. Kaffeklubben Ø, Greenland (if you consider Greenland to be in the Americas)

5. Ea San Juan, Chile (50 km S of Punta Arenas)

6. Puerto Toro, Chile (30 km ESE of Puerto Williams)

7. Cabo Froward, Chile

8. Islas Diego Ramírez, Chile (There is a Chilean naval meteorological station, but it's probably not large enough to be a settlement. Photo at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Diego_Ramirez_station.jpg .)

There's an excellent map of extremely southern Chile at http://www.turistel.cl/mapas_ruteros/rut_k_1.htm .

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA

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From: fabio

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:05 AM

Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?

Thanks to all of you!

It is a pleasure to read different contributions to our discussion. Also a bit of criticism is helpful to arise a deeper discussion.

On the base of the previous answers I suggest to create a summary.

Now I can post more detailed questions on the general and not well defined query "which the uppermost northern town" in the world.

I can ask the following:

1) which the uppermost northern "permanent inhabited village" by continent (Europe, Asia, America) (excluding islands)

2) which the uppermost northern "permanent inhabited village" by continent (Europe, Asia, America) (including islands)

3 and 4) the same BUT as uppermost "piece of land" (i.e. North Kap in Norway)

The same questions 5-6-7-8 could be related to the uppermost Southern place EXCLUDING ANTARCTICA as CONTINENT.

What it would be nice, but it complicates the matter, it is to write the latitude and longitude of EACH location, and (for the philatelists it will be nice to know if there is or not a post office in that location).

Of course I do not want to bore anybody, in this case, simply delete my messages and avoid to answer me.

Thanks again.

Fabio

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