amazing grant
you just knocked together a pal detector
hahaha
& ran it thru some data bases
hahahahaha
but this is incredible
& indeed it amounts to finding the freakin holy grail for pal nuts
for now it appears that all the pals in the world can now be sucked up into one big vacuum cleaner
yours
& i know of at least 2 people besides myself who will probably soon be banging down your door for precisely these precious carpet sweepings
& as if that were not enough
you have also demonstrated the means for answering your recent series of questions about extreme pals
for evidently all we have to do now is aim your nozzle at the right piles of nomenclatural dust
& it will spout pure gold out the back end
indeed i get the impression you have the mechanics so down pat that all there is left to consider is the overall scope of the task
like
as i think you have already anticipated
shouldnt we address all the 4 cardinal extremities
or take a complete news tour as it were
of both the qualified & the unqualified pals
& shouldnt we also be prepared to break out a third & perhaps most special news tour for the populated places
if these prove not to be identical with the unqualified tour
to produce a total of at least 7 & perhaps as many as 11 separate quests
& perhaps there are even more permutations we have not yet considered
tho i hope we can keep it down to as few as the 7 most obvious ones we have so far definitely acknowledged
namely
the qualified trio n & ew & s
plus
the unqualified quartet n & e & w & s
assuming there is no unqualified pal or pal town exactly on long180
as is most probable
now i dont know if my earlier message will ever reach bp
nor even if this one inaugurating my new facility will reach either
so i better stop here just to complete the test
& will hope to continue with this analysis later
& perhaps you or someone else has something new to add here also
such as we havent yet considered
but for now
i cant wait to see if this even reaches you all
m
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@b...> wrote:
> Michael:
> > for it now appears that a feature on ellesmere island named
> > otto fjord
> > situated at about nlat 81 or 82 degrees
> > enjoys the northernmost palindromic name in the world
>
> I've just knocked together a primitive palindrome-detector in VB and
> run it through the GeoNet downloadable files for Canada & Greenland.
> Otto Fjord is at 81 10 N, but there's a stream in Greenland that caps
> it. In fact there are four Greenlandic (qualified) palindromic
> features north of Qaanaaq settlement:
> Kajak stream 82 10 N
> Hannah island 81 08 N
> Resser cape 80 39 N
> Qaanaaq glacier 77 30 N
> Nothing in Svalbard or Russia protrudes above 82N, so Kajak stream is
> the most northerly palindrome in the GeoNet data.
>
> > but it should probably be stressed that qaanaaq nevertheless remains
> the
> > northernmost unqualified palindromic locality in the world
> > so far as we know
>
> And also the most northerly permanently inhabited palindrome, which is
> maybe what I should have said first time - I was working from the
> knowledge that Qaanaaq is the second most northerly town in the world,
> and forgetting all those other bits of geography.
>
> Grant