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Old 03-11-2009, 07:00 PM   #4851 (permalink)
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bingo Semisopochnoi! You found me so you're up next, MacGuyver.

I always thought I was pretty good with geography but I was very surprised to find that part of one of the fifty states of the U.S. could be in the eastern hemisphere.

It's the spot marked A on the map below. On this map that line between Russia and Alaska is the border, not the IDL. Although there are islands to the "left" of A on the map, those are more western since they are further from the IDL than Semisopochnoi Island. And islands to the "right" are in the western hemisphere.



Semisopochnoi Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At 179°37' East, Semisopochnoi is arguably the easternmost location in the United States and North America, as it sits only 23 minutes west of the 180th meridian, and therefore in the Eastern Hemisphere.



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