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Latitude (fwd)


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> To: phl@lists.pm.org
> cc: mjd@plover.com
> Subject: Latitude
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:32:19 -0500
> From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
> 
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> To: tchrist@perl.com
> cc: mjd@plover.com
> Subject: Latitude
> Organization: Plover Systems
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 22:48:24 -0500
> From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
> 
> 
> Remember when we weer on Baseline Avenue and you made some remark
> about how we were further north than I was used to, and I replied that
> actually 40 North rnus right through Philadelphia?  I was looking in
> the atlas today, and it was pretty interesting to see which cities
> were at which latitudes.  Some surprises there.  So for your
> entertainment, here's an incomplete list; note that all latitudes are
> approximate:
> 
> 
> 60:	Anchorage.
> 55:	Frozen wastes.
> 53:	Calgary/Edmonton.
> 50:	Vancouver. Regina. Winnipeg.
> 47:	Seattle. Great Falls. Duluth. Quebec.
> 45:	Portland. Minneapolis. Montreal.
> 43:	Chicago/Milwaukee. Detroit. Toronto.  Boston.
> 40:	Denver. Indianapolis. Philadelphia.  New York.
> 38:	San Francisco. Kansas City. St Louis. Cincinnati. Washington.
> 35:	Bakersfield. Albuquerque. Memphis. Charlotte.
> 33:	Los Angeles. Phoenix. Atlanta.
> 30:	Houston. New Orleans. Jacksonville.
> 
> 25:	Miami
> 
> 20:	Honolulu
> 
> 
> Surprises: The big surprise for me is how far north Seattle is.  I
> guess being on the ocean makes it warmer than inland cities at the
> same latitude like Spokane.
> 
> Similarly, I knew Anchorage was far north, but I didn't realize how
> much further north it was than practically everything else.  Last year
> it occurred to me for the first time that I think of Northern
> Minnesota and North Dakota and Montana as being cold frozen
> places---but the southermost points in Alberta and Saskatchewan are
> north of the northernmost points in Montana.  But Anchorage is north
> of the northernmost points in Alberta and Saskatchewan, which I don't
> think had occurred to me before.  Anchorage is about as far north as
> Yakutsk.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			                 mjd@plover.com
> I am boycotting Amazon. See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html for details.
> 
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