Prior Entries in this series:
I love to travel! 2016 was the year I finally made it out of North America! Two separate trips to Europe pushed my "easternmost extreme" point further and further east. First, to the low single-digits of west longitude as I landed at Heathrow airport and rode the Underground eastward into London. Then, to the Prime Meridian at 0° longitude as I travelled to the Greenwich Observatory and even strayed a few feet into east longitude. Last lasted only one day, as the next day, I rode the Eurostar through the Chunnel to Paris. For a couple of days, my easternmost point was the Gare du Nord in Paris. Over the course of the week, my easternmost point continued progressing eastward: to the Marne La-Vallée RER station at Disneyland Paris, then Brussels, Amsterdam, and finally on the eastern edge of Cologne. it remained there until a second trip to Europe in late September, when I flew to Athens. The Athens airport is in the far eastern suburbs of the Greek capital, and it remains, presently, the furthest east I have travelled.
I still haven't managed to get out of the northern hemisphere. The closest I've come to South America is the island of Curaçao, about 25 miles north of the Venezuelan coast.
Two of the four compass point extremes are located on islands. Here are my current geographic extremes (as of September 26, 2016)
NORTHERNMOST: 52.43° N
On the A10 Ring Road on the north side of Amsterdam52° 25' 31.5552" N
4° 53' 16.0512" E
Saturday, May 14, 2016
SOUTHERNMOST: 12.07° N
Caracas Baai, Curaçao12° 4' 8.439" N
68° 51' 42.1524"
Tuesday, June 13, 2007
EASTERNMOST: 23.95° E
Athens International Airport, Athens, Greece
37° 56' 12.1956" N
23° 56' 48.3106" E
Sunday, September 25, 2016
(repeated Tuesday, September 27, 2016)
WESTERNMOST: 158.10° W
Haleiwa, Oahu, Hawaii21° 35' 35.448" N
158° 6' 12.5892" W
Monday, February 14, 2011
Plot on map
PRIOR NORTHERNMOST: 51.45° N
On the Trans-Canada Highway, about 8 km NW of Lake Louise, Alberta51° 27' 30.2652" N
116° 16' 7.3848" W
Saturday, May 23, 2015
PRIOR EASTERNMOST: 7.06° E
Cologne, GermanyTransition ramp from southbound Autobahn 3 to Autobahn 4 and 59, east side of Köln
50° 55' 29.172" N
7° 3' 30.2522" E
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016: Heathrow Airport, London
Thursday, May 5, 2016: Tower Bridge, London
Friday, May 6, 2016: Royal Naval Observatory, Greenwich, England
Saturday, May 7, 2016 - 48.88°N 2.36°E: Gare du Nord, Paris
Sunday, May 8, 2016 - 48.86°N 2.39°E: Père La Chaise Cemetery, Paris
Tuesday, May 9, 2016 - 48.87°N 2.78°E: Marne La-Vallée RER Station, Disneyland Paris
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 50.84°N 4.34°E: Bruxelles Midi Station, Brussels*
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 50.84°N 4.38°E: Parlamentarium (European Parliament), Brussels
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 52.38°N 4.90°E: Amsterdam Centraal Station, Amsterdam*
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 52.37°N 4.93°E: Brouwerij t'IJ, Amsterdam
* - Also a new northern record at the time
Conversions from Decimal to Degrees /Minutes/Seconds:
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/dms-decimal
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