Post 29.

"The Aleutian islands extend past the Anti-Meridian which makes Alaska the state that is both the farthest east and the farthest west."

Some folks just can't their head around it.

Ok..I see it now. Post 29 (too many things going on at once here)
https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/nsewusa.htm

The answer is technically true...but hard to think of being correct.

Good job Masraum!

Weird that Alaska is three of the four directions winner. (I thought you gave it away with that SOL)

which states extend furthest from the geographic centroid of the US??

Ones that are not in the USA! I win.

Two answers to your question:

Didn’t you see our entry into the Miss Teen pageant years ago!😂

It’s Folly Beaches marketing gimmick.🤪

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1606252958.jpg

I thought Michigan was the most northern....today I'm sure I'm right.

Geographic "oddities" are interesting.

One that surprises a lot of people (like pretty much everyone) is that the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is to the east of the Caribbean entrance.

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I never knew that.

I found that out when visiting two years ago.
It's near impossible to understand directions when touring that area.
(because of the bending, looping of the isthmus.)

When approaching to land from Miami...the flight crew told us we were landing from the Pacific Ocean.

If one uses the anti-meridian at the point of departure from going west and now going east it is furthest east and west is the two side of a single line. Literally microns apart is the same east west far point. So it is very possible to stand on both the east and west hemisphere.

Like going to the north pole, there is no way to continue further north, every direction in 360 degrees is south. Latitude is simply an arbitrary point some British dude spit on the ground, and said this is point zero. No one can argue about the equator as the division from north to south. It is the equator.

So the real answer to the "trick" question is a line in Alaska is both the furthest east and west. And Alaska is certainly the furthest north one can go and be in America. So the answer is Alaska, Alaska and Alaska.

For common sense answer, some point in Maine is the first to see the sun rise in the east, yet much of Alaska never has the sun set, and some times never rises so the sun rise alone is not a valid marker.

Only if one uses the Prime meridian and some old British dude setting the beginning of the world in Greenwich England as the zero point (pure arbitrary point) then it is correct on a technicality.

Common sense is go as far east as possible in the USA and you hit water in northern Maine. Travel west and and at some point the Aleutian islands become Russian territory and you can't go any further west in the USA.

^^^ Not a trick question...ask Hoda or Jenna.

The 4 corners monument is in the wrong place! Sort of.

In 1919, New Mexico sued Colorado to have border discrepancies corrected. The Supreme Court upheld the original borders, acknowledging that they were off by a bit, but that the original markers (including the Four Corners Monument) were legally binding as the actual borders. The U.S. Geodetic Survey states that the quadripoint is actually 1,807 feet east of where modern surveying technology would place it.
So when you stand on the monument, you're not technically at the intersection of the four states, but you are legally on the quadripoint! Does it matter to the thousands of people who visit this place every year? We doubt it

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/utah/the-four-corners-ut/

Who? I honestly have no idea who they are.

^^^ Only the two experts on NBC morning news that asked the original question. :D

What? You mean I stood in the wrong damn spot?

Here's another geographic trivia question:

Where can you stand with one foot on the European plate and one foot on the North American plate?
;)

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Les

No idea....Greenland?

Longest day and longest night in Point Barrow, AK, summer and winter solstices. 2 months of night and 2 months of daylight. Fark me, that would get old.

Iceland, I believe. And there's a place there where you can actually swim between 2 plates that are separating.

I saw that on Nova or some other science program.

https://external-preview.redd.it/Lwk...=webp&fda1708a

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a1z0QyxAwEA/maxresdefault.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/03/a7...c1c275990a.jpg

Here's another: for an hour a year it's the same time in Florida as it is in Oregon.

What's the question?

It was a statement.

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ok...sorry.

How often is it the same time in FL and OR?

I believe you can get to all states that border Arkansas by traveling south. ;)

Never heard of them. I never watch morning news shows. Ever.

Without looking it up, I seem to remember Alaska being the answer.

Edit: Read the responses and see the answer was already given.

How about the northern most state in the con-us?

They should put a bridge across there so that I can drive from here to Europe.:D

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.P...95&w=218&h=114

They're not really experts...but they did ask the original question.

There is a bridge just off the road about twenty minutes south west of Keflavik. One end is on the European plate, the other on the North American plate. There is a shallow (but slowly widening) depression under the bridge. I believe it widens each year by about the same rate your fingernails grow.
Iceland is such a cool place.

Oh, and Maine is the northernmost of the 48 .

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Les

^^^ You are correct of the 48.

Not Maine, but it does start with an 'M'

Nope, but it is the eastern most point of the lower 48.
Yep
https://amateurtraveler.com/the-northernmost-spot-in-the-48-contiguous-u-s-states-the-northwest-angle-in-minnesota/

^^^ didn't know that...interesting.

Same here on both counts.

Thanks for the correction. Maine doesn't quite make it to 48 degrees North.

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Les