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09 Jun 08 - 06:29 PM (#2361847) Subject: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: GUEST,mg 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 |
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09 Jun 08 - 06:44 PM (#2361861) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: heric 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 |
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09 Jun 08 - 06:55 PM (#2361875) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: open mike 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 |
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09 Jun 08 - 07:01 PM (#2361880) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: GUEST,mg pretty close to where I am. Not sure of exact. I will be going through Slovenia and Croatia I think. mg |
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09 Jun 08 - 07:16 PM (#2361894) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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09 Jun 08 - 07:18 PM (#2361895) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: open mike 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, |
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09 Jun 08 - 07:41 PM (#2361907) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: GUEST,mg Thanks..what I was looking at without lines looked like Tokyo and Seoul..not sure...mg |
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09 Jun 08 - 08:55 PM (#2361955) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: Jack Campin - 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. |
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09 Jun 08 - 11:16 PM (#2362017) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: Sandy Mc Lean 45 splits Nova Scotia. 46 should take you to Cape Breton Island. |
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10 Jun 08 - 04:00 AM (#2362090) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: JohnInKansas 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) |
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10 Jun 08 - 04:29 AM (#2362106) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: GUEST,Volgadon Stavropol, they even have a street named after Latitude 46. OTOH, there really isn't anything to see there. |
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10 Jun 08 - 05:25 AM (#2362131) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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10 Jun 08 - 05:48 AM (#2362135) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: gnu My house is at 46 06 33 N. |
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10 Jun 08 - 07:32 PM (#2362773) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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10 Jun 08 - 11:15 PM (#2362889) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: Ebbie Just to continue orienting yourself, Juneau in southeastern Alaska is at Latitude 49. (Besides I enjoyed saying it. *g*) |
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10 Jun 08 - 11:21 PM (#2362890) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: heric Your right on the border with the US! |
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11 Jun 08 - 09:57 AM (#2363191) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: Wolfgang in Europe you'll pass through: France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia (from West to East) Wolfgang |
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11 Jun 08 - 11:16 AM (#2363278) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: PoppaGator 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.) |
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11 Jun 08 - 11:22 AM (#2363281) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: Wolfgang 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 |
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11 Jun 08 - 01:39 PM (#2363390) Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there? From: GUEST,Volgadon 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. |