{"id":399,"date":"2008-09-17T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2008-09-16T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:11:58","slug":"quiz-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Quiz Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Previously<\/a> I asked what were the eastern-, western-, northern-, and southern-most states in the United States.\u00a0 Three out of the four answers are gimmes.\u00a0 The southernmost state is, of course, Hawaii, where South Point, HI at approximately 18\u00b0 54’N.\u00a0 The northernmost state is Alaska, with Point Barrow weighing in at approximately 71\u00b0 26’N.\u00a0 The westernmost state is also Alaska, but where precisely in Alaska that is depends on how you measure.\u00a0 The discussion page of Extreme points in the United States<\/a> on Wikipedia explains that if you use lattitude and longitude, Alaska is the easternmost point in the U.S.\u00a0 If you use driving direction, however, Maine takes the honor.<\/p>\n

Here’s my view: we often refer to China and Japan as “The Far East”, even though to get there from California, one would fly in a westerly direction.\u00a0 This says to me that the logic behind driving direction isn’t all that sound.\u00a0 Given my view, what are those eastern- and western-most points?\u00a0 Google Earth, at least, gives the impression that the westernmost point would be Amatignak Island at 179\u00b0 08′ W, and the easternmost point would be Semisopochnoi Island at 179\u00b0 45’E.\u00a0 Again, this assumes we’re talking about states.\u00a0 We have possessions in various places that I haven’t reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously I asked what were the eastern-, western-, northern-, and southern-most states in the United States.\u00a0 Three out of the four answers are gimmes.\u00a0 The southernmost state is, of course, Hawaii, where South Point, HI at approximately 18\u00b0 54’N.\u00a0 The northernmost state is Alaska, with Point Barrow weighing in at approximately 71\u00b0 26’N.\u00a0 The westernmost … Continue reading “Quiz Answer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-stuff","tag-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}