More East Than West

For people being intentionally obtuse, yes.

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Nobody cares about a fake line in the ocean. Being to the left of it doesn't make you magically east of Maine in the classical sense. How do you define east and west objectively if not with the antimeridian? Otherwise it's always just going to be relative. I'm talking about east and west, not the easternmost or westernmost points of the US, ffs. Find the center of the territory you're talking about the United States, so somewhere in Kansas I assume , then find the points within that territory that lie farthest to the west and to the east of the center point, by longitude.

Unfortunately your reasoning is circular and you're assuming the answer in order to get the center. Consider the US without Alaska and then add back in Alaska. Which way does Alaska pull the center? You and I know it would pull it westward, but it isn't well defined or fully objective, because some people, like the person you're responding to, consider some parts of Alaska to be FAR east and would pull the center eastward.

You're assuming the outcome you wanted in the first place in order to build your model of what the "center" is. That's not how the math works. The geographical center of some geographical area is independent of your choice of coordinate system. It's the point which minimizes the sum of squared great circle distances between itself and every other point in the area. Distance is independent of choice of coordinate system. It would be miles if we defined the Prime Meridian to pass through the center of Witchita, it would be miles if we defined the Prime Meridian to pass through the center of Attu Island, it doesn't matter.

Then, we define our own coordinate system, with the prime meridian passing through the geographical center, keeping the geographical poles as the points where lines of longitude intersect. From the origin the center , consider each line of longitude to the west. The last line of longitude that intersects a point within the area is the westernmost point.

If you hit degrees west longitude, congratulations, you are the British Empire; every point along the degree line of longitude is a westernmost point. We don't actually have to define our own coordinate system; the math works just fine regardless of what coordinate system you choose.

No matter where on Iceland you are, you can go somewhere in Greenland that is further west, south, east or north.

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But the UK probably scores highest if we count overseas lands. Falklands, Pitcairn, and the territory in the Indian enclose a ton of stuff! Ooh, France could be even better! New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Kerguelen islands! They probably get any country that doesn't extend north of Dunkirk! According to the source used by wikipedia, Finland is further east then the eastern most point of Norwegian mainland Finland Norway.

Yeah, even though Norway wraps around northern Finland, Ilomantsi in the relative south reaches really far east. There are probably more. It occupies so little cognitive space, and feels so geographical isolated, I'm surprised that it is north of anything other than a grey patch of Atlantic. Russia on the other hand obviously overwhelms Mongolia in everyway, likewise for your other examples. That's not to criticise the geographic accuracy of what you say, just the intuitivness of it makes it rather dull.

Actually this is one of the few situations that Mercator works perfectly doesn't massively fuck up. Seriously though, this is exactly what Mercator is made for. If you want to know what is exactly in some compass direction of a point i. Doesn't Mercator also make the math easier for computers, and therefore is the preferred projection for any computer application where resource usage is a relevant concern?

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Like pretty much anything where you don't have a dedicated GIS computer processing the data for you? I think I heard that about the little locator maps found on Wikipedia, so I may be miss understanding how generally applicable that is. Anyone who criticizes your projection choice for this purpose knows absolutely nothing about mapping except what they read in a buzzfeed article.

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There are no other land masses at the same latitude as Antarctica, so there is nothing east or west of it. The 60th parallel south https: The 60th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. No land lies on the parallel — it crosses nothing but ocean.

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The closest land is a group of rocks north of Coronation Island Melson Rocks or Governor Islands of the South Orkney Islands, which are about 54 km south of the parallel, and Thule Island and Cook Island of the South Sandwich Islands, which both are about 57 km north of the parallel Thule island slightly closer. The parallel marks the northern limit of the Southern Ocean though some organisations and countries, notably Australia, have other definitions and of the Antarctic Treaty System.

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I was kinda hoping the answer wasn't so clear cut. But if you extend the lines tangent to Iceland southward, the would eventually be swallowed by Antarctica. This would be true for any country. So Antarctica is East and West of everywhere. Among its important contributions to sleep-wake cycles, the SCN regulates levels of the hormone melatonin , which at elevated levels plays a critical role in preparing the body for sleep. The pacemaker cells of the SCN take critical cues from light in the environment. Photosensitive cells in the retina of the human eye transmit information about light and darkness to the SCN.

Scientists are still investigating exactly how the synchronization of circadian rhythms works. But circadian rhythms are highly sensitive to all forms of light, natural and artificial. This investigation used a theoretical mathematical model, which extrapolates how the human circadian system is likely to react to the impact of eastward and westward travel.

However, these findings provide an illuminating perspective on the influence of direction over jet leg, as well as the mechanics of the circadian system and its variable reactions to travel. They also echo what travelers know through experience: With circadian clock, turning back is easier So, we have an understanding of why jet lag occurs, and we certainly know what jet lag feels like, in all its sleep-weary glory. In addition to the distance of travel and the degree of time-zone change, the model also took into account: Karen was a graduate student at Cornell from She went on to work as a researcher in galaxy redshift surveys at Harvard University, and is now on the Faculty at the University of Portsmouth back in her home country of the UK.

Her research lately has focused on using the morphology of galaxies to give clues to their formation and evolution. She is the Project Scientist for the Galaxy Zoo project. Why do airplanes take longer to fly West than East? This page was last updated on June 27, Similar Questions that might Interest You Why can't a plane fly slowly and let the Earth pass underneath?

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