Subject: New Zealand palindromes<br/>
Date: Dec 01, 2001 @ 16:08<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1603758701"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; Some years ago, I ran across a locality named Glenelg that would <br/>
&gt; probably be in Southland, New Zealand.<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Found it! I visited the Land Information New Zealand website, and<br/>
downloaded their placenames database. There are no fewer than 7<br/>
Glenelgs in New Zealand, all listed as &quot;homesteads&quot;, which explains<br/>
their absence from GeoNet. The most southerly is in Southland, at 45 45 S.<br/>
But the same database confirms just plain Gog as the name of a hill at<br/>
47 11 S. LINZ seem to be pretty punctilious about placing feature<br/>
qualifiers after names, and so I would have to say, barring objections<br/>
from Michael, I&#39;d now opt for Gog as our most southerly unqualified<br/>
palindrome.<br/>
I&#39;m not sure how I feel about homesteads as sources of geographical<br/>
names - I guess any of the Glenelg &quot;homesteads&quot; might actually involve<br/>
a million sheep scattered over a larger area than Ososo estate in<br/>
Fiji, but there&#39;s something about the word that conjures up an image<br/>
of a shack with a hand-painted sign. Next stop is Michael in a pyramid<br/>
tent outside Amundsen-Scott base, setting up his Hall of Ollah and<br/>
claiming the southern extreme at the same time!<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>