Posted on 01/01/2022 2:21:39 PM PST by dynachrome
There is an island or two in the Aleutians on the other side of the Int’l date line IIRC.
Leftards!
1. The farthest South - Hawaii
2. The farthest North - Alaska
3. The farthest East - Maine
4. The farthest West - Alaska
Should have just run the damn thing over. Lots of videos of contractors shooting the damn things with air rifles.......They number in the millions now and are still multiplying.
Really? They are dang good eating.
“Hawaii
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska”
Okay I’ll bite - how can Alaska be the most easterly *and westerly state at the same time?
2. The farthest North
3. The farthest East
4. The farthest West
I realize that this is a trick question. I'll try to answer it in the way that I think makes the most sense, which probably isn't how you get the correct "trick answer", so you can correct me, I'm sure.
"East" and "West" are relative directions, that don't have a pole associated with them. (Unlike North and South.)
You can obviously get to any point on the earth by either traveling in either direction on the East-West axis. One can go from Nevada to California traveling due East - you just have to circle most of the earth to do this. But at no time will you be traveling West.
Oddly, North and South don't work this way. You can't go from Texas to Oklahoma without traveling North. If you tried the same "go South" trick that works with East-West you would travel South until you crossed the poll (or southern apogee of your trip, and then you would have to travel North to the North Pole (or northern Apogeee) and then finish by traveling south again.
So, for North and South it's easy: what's closest to either pole. It's Alaska and Hawaii.
For East and West, you need a starting point of reference.
If you say from Kansas City, Kansas (as roughly the geometric center of the USA) the furthest East would be Maine, the furthest West I think Alaska again.
Just because there are Longitude measurements with North and South in them, doesn't mean that logically Japan is East of Hawaii.
No one would say that Tokyo is East of Hawaii.
The island of Attu is at 172 degrees East longitude.
Alaska straddles the 180deg parallel. East (looking at a globe with the Arctic at the top) is to the Right from the Prime Meridian, and, West is everything to the Left.
Some parts of Alaska are closer to 0 by moving to the Right on the globe, and, some are to the Left.
It’s also why our closest European neighbor is Russia.
It’s a longitude thing.
See #21 There are a couple of Aleutian islands across the International date line.
I just learned this week that one point of one of the Hawaiian Islands is further south than Key West. Of course it is not in CONUS.
Aha!
Nice.
“Just because there are Longitude measurements with North and South in them...”
There aren’t. The ones with North and South are measurements of latitude.
I go down there frequently to meet up with family and the get the heck away from everything. Iguanas are everywhere.
And chickens.
All of Hawaii lies further south than Key West.
It is repainted several times a year I think. Probably fixed on the next business day.
Tons of chickens.
Was the iguana being chased by the chickens?
Was the iquanas chasing the chickens? I tell you my iguana story, many many years ago in South Florida during one of the rare freezes I walked out in my backyard to find a dead iquana in the grass. I went back inside figuring I would dispose of him later in warmer weather and when I later went out to do it he was not there, he warmed up and climbed back up the tree.
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