Subject: Re: & now extremity bilines
Date: Nov 06, 2001 @ 23:23
Author: Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
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Michael:
> but russia enjoys the much greater & longer example of such a
paired
> extremity or biline at long180 on dry land
>
> fiji & tuvalu & the kiwi dependencies also appear to have at least
a wet
> possibility of an extremity biline along long180

The 180 meridian is dry in two countries - Russia and Fiji. In Russia
it chops through the middle of Wrangel Island and then the Chukchi
Peninsula, and in Fiji it passes through the eastern tip of Vanua
Levu, and then Rabi and Taveuni. It's monumented on at least two of
the Fijian islands, Vanua Levu & Taveuni.
Take a look at
http://www.millenniumfiji.com/mon.html
for the plans of a museum and park, fit to warm your meridional
heart - but I don't know if it ever got built.

Grant