Subject: Re: Palindromes at geographical extremes<br/>
Date: Nov 20, 2001 @ 01:38<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1556443711">Michael:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; also there are a few rivers on the north slope of alaska that might top <br/>
&gt; qaanaaq<br/>
&gt; but again i am not in front of a map<br/>
 </span></blockquote>No, Qaanaaq turns out to be well north of the North Slope (a bit like<br/>
my home in Scotland - what English folk call &quot;The North&quot; is a couple<br/>
of hours drive south of here). <br/>
You&#39;d need to look in Ellesmere Island, Svalbard, Franz Josef, some of<br/>
the Siberian islands. But maybe the best bet would be the far north<br/>
coast of Greenland itself - Greenlandic, like the Pacific languages,<br/>
seems to lend itself to palindromy (Does it have a small alphabet, as<br/>
in the Pacific? Seems to have, but I&#39;m not sure.)<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>