BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 01:39 PM

The South of Russia is pretty warm in the summer and with the exception of Stavropol (it's in the mountains), Novorossiysk (nor'easters) and Volgograd (steppe winds), not too cold in the winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 11:22 AM

A Swiss mountaineer once crossed Switzerland at an exact latitude (plus minus 100 meters, which then was pretty exact). He had to do some awfully difficult climbing between the walks.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 11:16 AM

I hope you make the trip in summertime ~ it can get pretty damn chilly up there!

In my very limited international travel experience, I've noticed that Europe (Western Europe, anyway ~ can't say about Russia) is considerably more temperate than North America at a given latitiude. For example, compare Maine to Spain...not the exact same latitiude, but closer than you'd think when considerfing their respective climates.

This is an intrguing idea for planning a monumental trip, but I would prefer to stay down around the subtropical 30-degree mark, where I've come to feel at home. (New Orleans is at 30 x 90 ~ the exact spot is in an uninhabited area near the Intracoastal Waterway, about two miles west of my house.)

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 09:57 AM

in Europe you'll pass through:
France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia (from West to East)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: heric
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 11:21 PM

Your right on the border with the US!

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 11:15 PM

Just to continue orienting yourself, Juneau in southeastern Alaska is at Latitude 49. (Besides I enjoyed saying it. *g*)

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 07:32 PM

what I was looking at without lines looked like Tokyo and Seoul.

No way. You miss Japan by a few miles, and you are way North of Korea.

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 05:48 AM

My house is at 46 06 33 N.

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 05:25 AM

Wichita Kansas has a street named for a meridian of longitude:

Meridian St., a short bit out past the west edge of town when it was surveyed, was supposed to be at longitude 98.

It was surveyed before the town got out there so that it could be a "datum" for laying out all the counties and townships in the area.

As best I can pin it down now, they missed by about 36 miles, but that's not too bad with an 1880s pocket watch for a navigational chronometer I guess.

The main east/west street through town is at about N 37.684 and Meridian St is at about W 97.371, so we're quite a bit south of the N 46 trip line wanted.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:29 AM

Stavropol, they even have a street named after Latitude 46. OTOH, there really isn't anything to see there.

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:00 AM

For reference on the N. Amer. continent, the border between North Dakota and South Dakota is almost precisely on the 46N latitude line. (According to my new DeLorme GPS-enabled computer map.)

At present, and within moderate range, from there west there's little of anything; and from there east it's mostly tornados, floods, and other disasters. That's probably a temporary thing eastward, but to the west I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope for seasonal improvement, at least until you cross the crest of the mountains near the west (US) coast.

To the west from the Dakotas, the scenery is gorgeous but you can't see a lot of it 'cause there's always some %@#!^! mountain and a bunch of trees blocking the view.

John (raised in the high plains flatlands)

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:16 PM

45 splits Nova Scotia. 46 should take you to Cape Breton Island.

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 08:55 PM

- Gagarin's launch pad

- Dried-up salt flats in the northern Aral Sea

- Surface-to-air missile sites in Kazakhstan

- Both southern tips of Sakhalin (a right bugger to get to by land, I'd think)

- The Kolokol volcano group on Urup, southernmost of the Kuril islands (must be just about the least visited place in Russia)

46S might be fun too: Patagonia, the southern Andes, the fiords of southern Chile, the fiords of southern New Zealand, the Crozet Islands, Marion and Prince Edward Islands. Stock up in Dunedin and Comodoro Rivadavia as they probably have the only shops on that line of latitude.

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 07:41 PM

Thanks..what I was looking at without lines looked like Tokyo and Seoul..not sure...mg

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 07:18 PM

bismark north dak,'
mpls/st. paul
tomahawk wisc
norway, Mich
Orillia, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax,
Bordeaux, Geneva, Milan,
Zagreb, Budapest, Odesa, Svetlograd,
Novokazalinsk,
Ulaanbaatar,
Hegang, Makarov,

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 07:16 PM

Crossing Italy you take in Lake Como, and not too far from Venice. And after Slovenia and Croatia and Rumania you get to visit the Crimea.

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 07:01 PM

pretty close to where I am. Not sure of exact. I will be going through Slovenia and Croatia I think. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 06:55 PM

go to map quest
and request map by Lattitude and longitude.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/

http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp

put in the lat/long and search east and west form there
to find other places on the 46th parallel.

is that where you are?

i am at the 39th degree north...

and 121 west...

Laurel

Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: heric
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 06:44 PM

This is fun. That would get you Quebec City. Quite a nice latitude overall. I think I would like to try the southern 30's for something completely different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_latitude

Subject: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 06:29 PM

I am planning a major trip for when I retire in a few to many years. Maybe take one year off and then go back to work.

I thought about just going at latitude 46 around the world. I know Geneva, Astoria, Kiev???, Quebec. Any more? I know Google Earth should hlep me but it was unhelpful. I don't have a globe. mg