1. Hammerfest or?
    Hello! I post this query here, hoping not to bore anybody. In a trivial pursuit query there is written that the town Hammerfest in Norway is the upper most
    May 14, 2005 @ 16:15 - fabio ("fabio" <fabiov@...>)
  2. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    ... Its one of these questions similar to What is the tallest building in the world? . It depends on how you define it. I ve just got back from Longyearbyen
    May 14, 2005 @ 17:29 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
  3. Re: Hammerfest or?
    ... the world? ... building in the ... I totally agree. Here is one usable definition: What is the northernmost year round settlement? By this definition,
    May 14, 2005 @ 17:43 - Henry Hirose ("Henry Hirose" <silentcity@...>)
  4. Re: Hammerfest or? - correction
    Looking over my past post, I see that this section wasn t written clearly so I will reword it: What is the southernmost year round civilian settlement? The
    May 14, 2005 @ 17:46 - Henry Hirose ("Henry Hirose" <silentcity@...>)
  5. AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    Clearly: Longyearbyen, the capital of Svalbard and seat of a Norwegian Sysselman. Wolfgang ... Von: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
    May 14, 2005 @ 19:29 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
  6. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    I would vote for Alert as the most northerly settlement. A military base is the functional equivalent of a company town--not different from mining towns,
    May 14, 2005 @ 21:33 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
  7. Re: Hammerfest or?
    ... Hammerfest in ... its post ... than ... or in ... not necessarily we since it is you who are asking the question only when you decide what you yourself
    May 15, 2005 @ 00:01 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  8. Re: Hammerfest or?
    ... world? ... in the ... not necessarily it would be good if fabio would define it but even if he didnt we could still answer impeccably for the full range of
    May 15, 2005 @ 00:07 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  9. Re: Hammerfest or?
    ... all fine but there is not yet any warrant to specify any of these the question belongs only to fabio unless you intend to ask some new questions which then
    May 15, 2005 @ 00:14 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  10. Re: AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    ok & welcome back btw but how can the answer be clear when the question isnt yet Wolfgang Schaub wrote: Clearly:
    May 15, 2005 @ 00:52 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
  11. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    leaving aside the question of upper or uppermost you can vote all you want but the quest for which help was asked is so far only & all about town
    May 15, 2005 @ 01:02 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
  12. AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    The question is: What is a town . Alert, Nord, Kaffeklubben etc. are settlements, but do not really sound like towns in the European sense of the word. A
    May 15, 2005 @ 08:38 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
  13. AW: AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    The question was for a town. Hence it was clear. Wolfgang ... Von: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]Im Auftrag von aletheia
    May 15, 2005 @ 08:38 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
  14. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    Thanks to all of you! It is a pleasure to read different contributions to our discussion. Also a bit of criticism is helpful to arise a deeper discussion. On
    May 15, 2005 @ 12:05 - fabio ("fabio" <fabiov@...>)
  15. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    That must be a very European notion that governmental authority is required to make a town a town. Perhaps it is more American and republican to say that the
    May 15, 2005 @ 14:38 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
  16. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    yes Lowell, I agree with you. It is hard to make difference between town or village . So in my latest post I asked 8 queries about village with the meaning
    May 15, 2005 @ 16:24 - fabio ("fabio" <fabiov@...>)
  17. AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    The uppermost northern town of continental Europe, in my view, would be Honningsvag on the island where the North Cape is on - which in turn is NOT the
    May 15, 2005 @ 17:34 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
  18. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    I will provide my proposed answers for the Americas: 1. Nuwuk, Alaska, USA (on Point Barrow about 9 mi. NE of Barrow) 2. Alert, Nunavut, Canada 3. Point
    May 15, 2005 @ 20:23 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
  19. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    ... hahaha well i cant speak for your european english sense of the word town http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/17774 which you posted
    May 16, 2005 @ 01:39 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  20. Re: Hammerfest or?
    hahahahaha ok so let me get this straight now fabio based on your clarifications here below as well as in
    May 16, 2005 @ 14:23 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  21. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    ... From: Lowell G. McManus To: Boundary Point Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or? I will provide my proposed
    May 17, 2005 @ 07:07 - fabio ("fabio" <fabiov@...>)
  22. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    Thanks to Henry, Wolfgang and Lowell I can report few answers to my questions on the northernmost points and southernmost points of each Continent. There is
    May 17, 2005 @ 07:31 - fabio ("fabio" <fabiov@...>)
  23. AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    Forget Ny-Aalesund, Fabio. It is no longer inhabited, abandoned due to lack of profit with coal mining, just runis of houses and a few lorries, containers etc.
    May 17, 2005 @ 09:08 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
  24. Re: AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    ... hahaha exactly & you raise the rafters here because you put your finger precisely on the multipunctilious but still elusive point that is actually being
    May 17, 2005 @ 15:22 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
  25. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    Wolfgang wrote: And Greenland would politically be Europe, geographically America, and culturally: Asia? (The Inuit) That is correct, but we are discussing
    May 17, 2005 @ 15:29 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
  26. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    fabio ... also http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/1017 ... exactly exactly ... exactly & there is no clear answer & thats why it is so funny
    May 17, 2005 @ 15:52 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
  27. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    Fabio, ... If you re talking about geographical extremes then it makes sense to use geographic definitions. The UN definitions are not perfect, but provide a
    May 17, 2005 @ 16:47 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
  28. Re: Hammerfest or?
    hahaha yes reasonable but only a reasonably political basis rather than a reasonably geographical basis as you promote & imply if not claim for them for they
    May 17, 2005 @ 17:21 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  29. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    ... I don t see the point(s) in arbitrarily dividing the world into continents in the first place (unless you just have Afroeurasia, the Americas, Australia
    May 17, 2005 @ 18:22 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
  30. Re: Hammerfest or?
    hahahahaha more or less exactly & you know where i stand on that one namely 1 afroeurasia 2 america 3 antarctica emphatically 4 australia & of course why stop
    May 17, 2005 @ 19:05 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  31. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    All such attempts at dividing the world into artificial regions are subject to poor definition and contradiction. Take, for instance, the once-common but
    May 17, 2005 @ 20:40 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
  32. AW: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
    There is another example: Central & Eastern Europe, loosely termed CEE. As it seems this term was born in 1989 when the iron curtain was lifted, and while all
    May 17, 2005 @ 20:52 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
  33. Re: Hammerfest or?
    yikes but hasnt it already been settled europe is the 3rd largest peninsula of afroeurasia or something i was also amused today to find as few as 227 google
    May 17, 2005 @ 21:16 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)