farthest you've travelled

[calimac]

(surface travel only, no plane flights over Greenland or suchlike counted, unless you landed there)

This meme inspired by a brief conversation with shikzoid about black sand beaches in Hawaii, and associated conversations in which Alaska, Rome, and Wales all came up.

1. Farthest north: The Chilkoot Pass north of Skagway, Alaska (59 degrees N)
1a. Farthest north outside of North America: St. Andrews, Scotland (56 degrees N)

2. Farthest south: near Punaluu Black Sand beach, on the island of Hawaii (19 degrees N)
2a. Farthest south in North America: somewhere in the Florida Everglades (25 degrees N)
2b. Farthest south outside the U.S.: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (31 degrees N)
2b. Farthest south outside the U.S. or North America: Catacombs on the Appian Way near Rome (41 degrees N)

East and west are manageable assumptions because I haven't traveled around the world:
3. Farthest east: Assisi, Italy (12 degrees E)
3a. Farthest east in North America: I don't remember exactly, but probably somewhere around Augusta, Maine (69 degrees W)

4. Farthest west: Waimea Canyon, island of Kauai, Hawaii (159 degrees W)
4a. Farthest west in North America: Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay, Alaska (137 degrees W)
4b. Farthest west outside the U.S.: not counting the Chilkoot Pass again (135 degrees W), for I did cross the Canadian border there: Nanaimo, B.C. (123 degrees west)
4c. Farthest west outside the U.S. or North America: Caernarfon, Wales (4 degrees W)

How far have you travelled?

Comments

[fr-john.livejournal.com]

1. Farthest North: either Seattle, London, or Toronto (which ever is Northmost)
2. Farthest South: San Diego
3. Farthest East: Canterbury
4. Probably Seattle or Portland (whichever is Westmost).

[rwl.livejournal.com]

Inside the USA, Fort Myers, Florida is the farthest south I've been and Massena, New York is the farthest north. Farthest east in USA is Portland, Maine, while farthest west is either Seattle, or Point Reyes, California (have to look at a map to be sure, and I don't have the coordinates for any of them).

Outside the USA, I've been as far north as Tampere, Finland, and as far south as Melbourne, Australia. I've crossed the date line, so I don't know if farthest east and west have a meaning in that regard.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Have you been around the world (not necessarily in one trip, but have you traversed all longitudes), or is there a gap?

[rwl.livejournal.com]

Never been around the world in a single trip. Traveling eastward, the farthest I've been is Krasnoyarsk. Russia or Agra, India (not sure which is farthest east). Heading west, the farthest I've been is Bangkok.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Krasnoyarsk (east of Agra) is at 93 East; Bangkok is at 100 East. Only seven degrees to go!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

If Massena NY is your farthest north in the US, then you've never been to Minneapolis, Montana, Portland (OR), or Seattle. True?

[rwl.livejournal.com]

I've been to Seattle and Minneapolis, but didn't think either was farther north than Massena, which is right on the Canadian border. Never been to Portland, or anywhere else in Oregon, for that matter.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Above the Arctic circle in Norway. Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. Around the world to the East. Katmandu to the West.

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[athenais.livejournal.com]

North: Iceland
South: Australia
East: Kenya
West: Japan

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

In North America:

East: Nova Scotia
West: San Francisco
North: Seattle
South: San Diego

For the rest of the world: Scotland, New Zealand, The Netherlands, New Zealand.