Oddities of geography (working, grass, state)

[green_mariner]

Murmansk,Russia, at 68°58'N, is the largest city in the world located north of the Arctic Circle.

[ram2]

Originally Posted by Bydand

There is quite a few people who look at the Mackinac Bridge in northern Michigan and wonder why there is a 5 mile long suspension bridge that connects two towns with a population of 839 (Mackinaw City) and 2322 (St. Ignace.) They are 5 miles apart across the Straits of Mackinaw, but if the ferry service was down it was a 870 mile drive from one to the other before the bridge was built if you took the short way around Lake Michigan. If you went around Lake Huron it was close to 950 miles.

You could also drive to Muskegon and take the ferry to Wisconsin. There also used to be a ferry out of Frankfort, Mi.

[green_mariner]

Wisconsin is the northernmost state that doesn't touch Canada(Michigan touches Canada near Detroit, Minnesota borders Canada, so does New York).

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by takuriver

Haines, Alaska to Skagway, Alaska is a 14 mile trip by boat. To drive, it takes 350 miles and you travel through parts of Alaska, BC and the Yukon.

And up until the mid-1970s, you COULDN'T drive to Skagway, as the road wasn't built until then. Prior to the road, the only land route to Skagway from the north was the White Pass Railroad from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

[green_mariner]

Seattle,WA is closer to a two Canadian metropolitan areas than it is to any major American metropolitan.

From Seattle,USA to Victoria,Canada(136 miles, including the ferry)
Seattle to Vancouver,Canada(141-159 miles depending on which route is taken)

Now for American major metros:
Seattle to Portland(174-198 miles, depending on which route you take)
Seattle to Spokane(280-360 miles, depending on the route)
Seattle to Boise(504 miles)
Seattle to San Francisco(808-850 miles depending on route)
Seattle to Los Angeles(1,135-1219 miles depending on route)
Seattle to San Diego(1,255 miles)
Seattle to Minneapolis(1,656 miles)

[green_mariner]

In addition to my last post, the distance from Vancouver,Canada to Ensenada,Mexico is shorter than the distance from Seattle,WA to Minneapolis,MN.

Vancouver to Ensenada(1,482-1,599 miles)
Seattle to Minneapolis(1,656 miles)

You have to traverse three nations and still have a shorter distance(at its longest) to traveling between Seattle and Mpls, which are in the same nation, and Mpls is about 3 degrees south of Seattle.

[WildWestDude]

Geo trivia: Which is the easternmost part of all the states of the USA? Not including Puerto Rico and other dependencies/territories. We're talking STATES ONLY!

[green_mariner]

The southernmost point in Alaska, at 54° 45', is further north than Canada's northernmost major metropolitan area, Edmonton, which is at 53°34′N, and the northernmost city in North America with 500,000 or more residents.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by WildWestDude

Geo trivia: Which is the easternmost part of all the states of the usa? Not including Puerto Rico and other dependencies/territories.

Lubec,Maine.

[WildWestDude]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Lubec,Maine.

nope