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Ok so i dont live there but i can read an emmm whatchamacallit
Mainland
N - Highlands - Caithness (been to Thurso and John O Groats :p)
W - Highlands again - is it Morvern? not inc Skye etc
E - Toss up betw Norfolk and Suffolk within a few miles
S - Cornwall
Thats my 2 wee pennies worth... och aye the noo, bah goom lads, top of the mornin' to ya and llyllylylylyllllwlwlllwlllllyllyllylylllllln
The Point of Ardnamurchan in Argyll is more than 6° West - Cornwall isn't.
Look you lot, Land's End is famous for being the most westerly point in mainland Britain.
Anyone who says otherwise, let's take it outside and settle it like men. :mad:
Well i thought it was famous for being the most southerly point (and john o'groats for northerly) but if we gotta step outside can we at least meet half way like in bahrain or something?Quote:
Originally posted by simonm
Look you lot, Land's End is famous for being the most westerly point in mainland Britain.
Anyone who says otherwise, let's take it outside and settle it like men. :mad:
Also, if enuf ppl believe it is the most westerly point does it actually become the most westerly point in some Orwellian twist? :p
I thought Land's End was famous for being the most Southerly point on mainland Britain.
If you want to take it outside, I should be allowed to bring my Atlas to hit you over the head with. ;)
No, The Lizard Point is the most southerly point of mainland Britain. You know the two little peninulars sticking out of the end of cornwall (one points west, the other south)? The Lizard is the on pointing south, Penwith (the one with Land's end) is the one pointing West.Quote:
I thought Land's End was famous for being the most Southerly point on mainland Britain.
Yes it does. In fact, we have hosts of people from the west coast of Scotland come down every year just to say they've been to the most westerly point in Britain.Quote:
Also, if enuf ppl believe it is the most westerly point does it actually become the most westerly point in some Orwellian twist?
beachbum, No! I will not meet you halfway in bahrain. Come to Land's end and feel it's westerlyness!
InvisibleDuncan, OK, you may bring an atlas to hit me with. me, I'm going to bring an iron bar! :cool:
That sounds like the type of holiday i'm after :p Imagine the slide show back home ...Quote:
Originally posted by simonm
Yes it does. In fact, we have hosts of people from the west coast of Scotland come down every year just to say they've been to the most westerly point in Britain.
Where do i go to say i have been to the most boring point in Britain? :D
Oh, that would be the Cotswolds.Quote:
Where do i go to say i have been to the most boring point in Britain?
I knew we'd find some common ground eventually. :)Quote:
Originally posted by simonm
Oh, that would be the Cotswolds.
East and West are measured relative to the prime meridian which passes throught Greenwich, England. Longitude there is zero. 180 degrees east and 180 degrees west halfway around the world from Greenwich are as far east/west as you can get.
Alaska has territory at longitude 180, making it farthest east and farthest west.
Well, I live near Thurso in Caithness :)
Hey, whatever happened to "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet"... party pooper :pQuote:
Originally posted by Guv
East and West are measured relative to the prime meridian which passes throught Greenwich, England. Longitude there is zero. 180 degrees east and 180 degrees west halfway around the world from Greenwich are as far east/west as you can get.
Alaska has territory at longitude 180, making it farthest east and farthest west.
I lived there. I went to the old royal observatory where the line goes through. They have this cool line and you can stand on it and go "Wow, 1 of my feet in the east of the world, 1 of my feet in the west" It's very exciting...:)Quote:
Originally posted by Guv
East and West are measured relative to the prime meridian which passes throught Greenwich, England
At night they used to have this cool laser lightbeam that shone across greenwich park following the meridian.
Lots of japanese tourists as you can imagine.
when you see them..do they all come squirming out of a bus and then start taking pictures of everything?? ;)
Damn stupid Americans... oh wait I'm American! :D
I don't understand why any country needs a leader. Just think... we have George W. Bush for president, and look how good our country is! :rolleyes: He's spent more time on a golf course than in the White House. The last time he did somthing in office, his dad was screwing the country over, now it's his turn to do the same thing!
Ok after all that blabbing... I say SCREW WORLD LEADERS! Who needs them?!
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Has anyone ever been to East Dakota?
I currently live about a mile away from the spot where the Prime Meridian leaves English shores. It's not very exciting here, either. :(Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
I lived there. I went to the old royal observatory where the line goes through. They have this cool line and you can stand on it and go "Wow, 1 of my feet in the east of the world, 1 of my feet in the west" It's very exciting...:)
Yeah, on the brink of recession...great!! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by MidgetsBro
I don't understand why any country needs a leader. Just think... we have George W. Bush for president, and look how good our country is!
Jacques Chirac (France)
Gerhard Schroeder (Germany)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russia)
Joichiru Koizumi (Japan)
Emperor Akihito (Japan)
Jiang Zemin (China)
Kim Jong-il (North Korea)
Kim Dae-jong (South Korea)
Vicente Fox (Mexico)
Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
King Abdullah (Jordan)
Ariel Sharon (Israel)
etc. etc.