thanx grant
brrr
& may i then safely conclude that the most capitally distant populated place
on earth is the south pole
or might those crazy voronoi lines punish this presumption somehow

also
do we now have the ability to learn the farthest point on earth from the sea
& the farthest from land

m

>From: "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re anchorage & great circles & voronoi
>Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 01:34:55 -0000
>
> > can anyone say whether there is any point or preferably any
>populated place
> > more blessed than anchorage in the sense of being farther from any
>national
> > capital
>
>Somewhere near the South Pole must edge out Anchorage, since that
>would be >45 degrees = >5000km from the nearest capital - Wellington.
>A little displacement away from the South Pole along the Greenwich
>meridian would farther increase that distance, because the South
>African capital(s) are well north of the 40S line. So somewhere in
>Queen Maud Land, maybe 80-ish south?
>
>Grant
>

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