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>From: "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re closest national capital to anchorage
>Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 18:18:28 -0000
>
>Anton:
> > *I* have a globe and a bit of string!
>And *I* have a calculator that does spherical trig!
>
> > Ottawa
> > Reykjavik, Washington
> > Tokyo
> > Mexico
> > Pyongyang, Havana
> >
> > (Of the comma-pairs, I can't say for sure which comes first.)
>
>Taking coordinates from my old Times Atlas, I get:
>Ottawa: 4930km
>Washington: 5420km
>Reykjavik: 5430km
>Tokyo: 5570km
>Pyongyang: 6000km
>Mexico: 6080km
>Ulaanbaatar: 6100km
>Habana: 6580km
>
>Not sure why this goes awry relative to your list in the vicinity of
>Mexico/Pyongyong/Habana - the coords I've used look good from the map.
>
>Grant
>

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