1. Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    For a while, I ve stared at maps of Nevada and wondered about how the seat of Nye County, NV, (Tonopah) is on a road (US-95) that seems to go just barely over
    Jun 13, 2003 @ 00:56 - adamnvillani ("adamnvillani" <avillani@...>)
  2. Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    welcome at last adam after 22 months of lurking a new bp record & thanx for the interesting question too ... neither of these occurrences in itself is very
    Jun 13, 2003 @ 03:22 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  3. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    Kinshasa, the capital of De. Rep. of Congo (2,344,885 km²) located virtually on the boundary line to Rep. of Congo and in the very Western part of the country
    Jun 13, 2003 @ 08:17 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  4. Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    ... located virtually ... part of the ... yes thanx for both jacking up & lasering in here as kinshasa does indeed appear to be the top & final word of the
    Jun 13, 2003 @ 15:13 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  5. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    Vilnius District Municipality (Lithuania) has its administration building inside neighbouring Vilnius City Municipality (separate administrations) and
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 12:32 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  6. Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    oranges & apples in this case as the new jersey state house is indeed barely inside new jersey & we have previously seen quite a few cases of external seats of
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 13:56 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  7. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    It is not one of those - it is simply the only one left in Asia - named British Indian Ocean Territory - 60 km² and about 2,000 inhabitants.
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 17:42 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  8. farthest known place from its government
    nice & evidently you have even led us via this link to the very farthest one of these 2300 islands from their seat of government in london namely diego garcia
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 17:58 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  9. RE: [BoundaryPoint] farthest known place from its government
    I agree that Diego Garcia is far out of London, but Bouvet Is. is even more far from Oslo. (If we keep Antartican territories out.) Jan ... From: acroorca2002
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 18:18 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  10. Re: farthest known place from its government
    i have previously posted a lost response to this which may or may not land subsequently but this message amends & improves it anyway the farthest known dry
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 19:48 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  11. Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    ... Sure, no problem. I actually wasn t actively lurking for a substantial fraction of that 22 months. ... Thanks... inspired by your ability to find the dates
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 21:16 - adamnvillani ("adamnvillani" <avillani@...>)
  12. Re: farthest known place from its government
    I think there is a good bet that Paris is farther than Oslo is from it s most distant dependency in the south Pacific. Try Wallis & Futuna. It s halfway
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 23:24 - L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
  13. Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    ... hahaha well then your record merits an asterisk too for its effortlessness & it will be hard to beat either way so good luck to any remaining lurkers who
    Jun 14, 2003 @ 23:55 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  14. Re: farthest known place from its seat of government
    well you are right len the original seat in our worlds farthest known place from its seat of government had completely fallen off the question somewhere along
    Jun 15, 2003 @ 01:19 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  15. Re: [BoundaryPoint] farthest known place from its government
    Len, ... Certain islands in French Polynesia might be further from Paris than Wallis and Futana. In addition, Pitcairn Island might also be further from London
    Jun 15, 2003 @ 18:17 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <kevin@...>)
  16. Re: farthest known place from its government
    ... Wallis ... I stopped at Wallis, because the further around the globe I went, the closer to Paris I came going the other way around. I tried to locate the
    Jun 15, 2003 @ 20:51 - L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
  17. Re: farthest known place from its national capital
    ... Paris than Wallis ... the extremities of the french polynesia group are indeed farther from paris than the extremities of the wallis & futuna group but the
    Jun 15, 2003 @ 22:20 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  18. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: farthest known place from its government
    ... From: L. A. Nadybal To: Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: farthest
    Jun 15, 2003 @ 22:25 - John Seeliger ("John Seeliger" <jseelige@...>)
  19. great circles was Re: farthest known place from its government
    ... went, the ... locate ... around the ... good thinking ordinarily except here french polynesia & new caledonia both make up in latitude what they lose to
    Jun 15, 2003 @ 23:06 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  20. Live from the North Pole!
    For those of you who virtually have been nearly everywhere - here s the last minute information from the North Pole: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html
    Jun 16, 2003 @ 07:22 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  21. Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    ... Here you go: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-243.html It s kinda neat; some of the county definitions are really simple, and others go into quite a bit
    Jun 16, 2003 @ 08:07 - adamnvillani ("adamnvillani" <avillani@...>)
  22. Re: Live from the North Pole!
    a global extremity & everyones ice to be sure but also the renegade quadripoint caevevru where illegal sector claims by canada & russia would partly override &
    Jun 16, 2003 @ 14:06 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  23. Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah
    ... on ... it ... sources ... thanx one new revelation here is that the stepstair churchill lyon county line that brendan was asking about is actually not
    Jun 16, 2003 @ 14:12 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)