Subject: Re: re closest national capital to anchorage<br/>
Date: Oct 06, 2001 @ 18:18<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2078749758">Anton:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; *I* have a globe and a bit of string!<br/>
 </span></blockquote>And *I* have a calculator that does spherical trig!<br/>
 <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; 	Ottawa<br/>
&gt; 	Reykjavik, Washington<br/>
&gt; 	Tokyo<br/>
&gt; 	Mexico<br/>
&gt; 	Pyongyang, Havana<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; (Of the comma-pairs, I can&#39;t say for sure which comes first.)<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Taking coordinates from my old Times Atlas, I get:<br/>
Ottawa:      4930km<br/>
Washington:  5420km<br/>
Reykjavik:   5430km<br/>
Tokyo:       5570km<br/>
Pyongyang:   6000km<br/>
Mexico:      6080km<br/>
Ulaanbaatar: 6100km<br/>
Habana:      6580km<br/>
<br/>
Not sure why this goes awry relative to your list in the vicinity of <br/>
Mexico/Pyongyong/Habana - the coords I&#39;ve used look good from the map.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>