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Old 04-26-2012, 11:21 PM
 
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On the west coast, the commercial seaport furthest from the ocean is located at Lewiston, Idaho, along the Snake River, a tributary of the oceangoing Columbia River. The shipping channel route is about 450 miles long, while the straight-line distance from Lewiston to the Pacific Ocean is around 335 miles.
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Old 04-27-2012, 01:00 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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T Does the same ruling apply to television stations as well?
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Yes, it's a part of an international communications treaty that governs the call signs of all transmissions in the broadcast bandwidth. The first assignments were made by the 1912 London International Radiotelegraphic Convention, governing radio transmissions by ships at sea, and it was modified several times as land-based broadcasting expanded.

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Old 04-27-2012, 01:21 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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On the west coast, the commercial seaport furthest from the ocean is located at Lewiston, Idaho, along the Snake River, a tributary of the oceangoing Columbia River. The shipping channel route is about 450 miles long, while the straight-line distance from Lewiston to the Pacific Ocean is around 335 miles.
Although Minnesota is only 175 miles from the geographic center of North America, it has commercial ports used by oceangoing vessels into the Gulf of Mexico (Minneapolis) and the North Atlantic (Duluth).
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Old 04-27-2012, 01:34 AM
 
Location: New Orleans
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Parts of New Orleans could be considered islands. There is New Orleans East which is quite large and is actually part of the city. But it used to be connected to the rest of the city before shipping canals(Industrial Canal and Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal) were dug to seperate two of the sides from other land. There is also the Lower Ninth Ward, St. Bernard Parish, and parts of Plaquemines Parish which together make another island and is seperated from the rest of the city by the same Industrial Canal/Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal on two of the sides. Then the New Orleans East Bank(main part of city and parts of metro) could actually be considered a peninsula becuase on one side there is Lake Ponchartrain, on the other side the Mississippi River, and then the other side the Industrial Canal(or you could make this boundary even father by it being the Gulf of Mexico).

Just look around on Google maps and you will notice these things.

Also Lake Ponchartrain is technically not a lake but is an estuary.
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Old 04-27-2012, 02:00 AM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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I knew it was the largest inland port in the country but didn't think it would beat Miami which is such as major metro on the ocean.
More cargo tonnage comes into nearby Port Everglades, which is jointly in the cities of Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood. Port Everglades was developed in part by Joseph Wesley Young, the founder of Hollywood (FL) who insisted that Broward County cede half of the port to his town ... although I think those in Fort Lauderdale would have liked to have it all to themselves. Remember, this is only about 15 miles north of Miami. Across the street (US Hwy. #1) is the airport which is officially named Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (but it's rarely called that anymore).
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Old 04-27-2012, 09:11 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Parts of New Orleans could be considered islands. There is New Orleans East which is quite large and is actually part of the city. But it used to be connected to the rest of the city before shipping canals(Industrial Canal and Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal) were dug to seperate two of the sides from other land. There is also the Lower Ninth Ward, St. Bernard Parish, and parts of Plaquemines Parish which together make another island and is seperated from the rest of the city by the same Industrial Canal/Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal on two of the sides. Then the New Orleans East Bank(main part of city and parts of metro) could actually be considered a peninsula becuase on one side there is Lake Ponchartrain, on the other side the Mississippi River, and then the other side the Industrial Canal(or you could make this boundary even father by it being the Gulf of Mexico).

Just look around on Google maps and you will notice these things.

Also Lake Ponchartrain is technically not a lake but is an estuary.
If you can create islands by digging man-made waterways, then the entire Eastern time zone and much of the central time zone are a huge island, surrounded by the Chicago River, the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, the Atlantic ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, Illinois River, Des Plaines River, and the 28-mile long Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. You can sail a pretty large ship all the way around.

In Louisiana, there are also several floodways (Atchafalaya, Morganza, Bonnet Carre) to let the Mississippi flow around New Orleans, thus creating temporary islands. I don't think the Atchafalaya has ever been opened, but the Bonnet Carre is opened a couple of times a decade, to divert Mississippi water into Lake Pontchartrain.

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Old 04-27-2012, 10:57 AM
 
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I didn't know where to put this (all these are as the crow flies:

Miami Florida is closer to Cancun Mexico than it is to Pensacola Florida

Cancun Mexico is closer to Nova Scotia Canada than it is to Tijuana Mexico

Tijuana Mexico is closer to Juneau Alaska than it is to Cancun Mexico

extreme western China is closer to Greece than it is to Shanghai China

Attu Island Alaska is closer to Darwin Australia and Mackay Australia than it is to Miami Florida

extreme western Michigan is closer to Sioux Falls South Dakota than it is to Detroit Michigan

Attu Island Alaska is closer to Japan than it is to Anchorage Alaska

Tijuana Mexico is further NORTH than Hilton Head Island South Carolina

extreme western Alaska is further west than Auckland New Zealand

the northern border of Texas and the southern border of Virginia are almost at the same latitude

Big Diomede Island Russia is closer to Mobile Alabama than it is to Kaliningrad Russia

Brownsville Texas is closer to Guatemala than it is to Texline Texas

extreme northern California is closer to Banff National Park in Alberta Canada than it is to Imperial Beach California

the distance it takes to get from Imperial Beach California to Crescent City California is about the same distance it takes to get from San Francisco to Canada

Kaliningrad Russia is closer to Ottawa Canada than to big diomede russia

Libby Montana is further west than Needles California

extreme western Florida is further west than extreme eastern Illinois and extreme eastern Wisconsin

extreme western Kentucky is further west than extreme eastern Minnesota

Amarillo texas is closer to Omaha Nebraska than to Houston Texas

Follett Texas is closer to Joilet Illinois than to Brownsville Texas

Amarillo Texas is closer to Des Moines Iowa than to Brownsville Texas

extreme northern New Jersey is almost (by a few miles) as close to Canada as it is to the water border of New Jersey with delaware on the delaware bay

central New Jersey is closer to Antarctica than it is to New Delhi India or Samoa

extreme western Portugal (western flores island azores) is closer to extreme eastern Maine than it is to Marseille France

Horn Island Australia is closer to Manila Philippines than it is to southern Tasmania Australia

Texline Texas is closer to Bozeman Montana than to Brownsville Texas

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Old 04-27-2012, 10:08 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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The right place. Pensacola is closer to Evansville, IN than Key West. Some are a little weird, but most are good.

Brunswick, Georgia is closer to Tampa than Atlanta.

Parts of NW Georgia are closer to the Cincinnati area than the GA-FL state line.
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Old 04-27-2012, 10:30 PM
 
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I didn't know where to put this (all these are as the crow flies:

Miami Florida is closer to Cancun Mexico than it is to Pensacola Florida

Cancun Mexico is closer to Nova Scotia Canada than it is to Tijuana Mexico

Tijuana Mexico is closer to Juneau Alaska than it is to Cancun Mexico

extreme western China is closer to Greece than it is to Shanghai China

Attu Island Alaska is closer to Darwin Australia and Mackay Australia than it is to Miami Florida

extreme western Michigan is closer to Sioux Falls South Dakota than it is to Detroit Michigan

Attu Island Alaska is closer to Japan than it is to Anchorage Alaska

Tijuana Mexico is further NORTH than Hilton Head Island South Carolina

extreme western Alaska is further west than Auckland New Zealand

the northern border of Texas and the southern border of Virginia are almost at the same latitude

Big Diomede Island Russia is closer to Mobile Alabama than it is to Kaliningrad Russia

Brownsville Texas is closer to Guatemala than it is to Texline Texas

extreme northern California is closer to Banff National Park in Alberta Canada than it is to Imperial Beach California

the distance it takes to get from Imperial Beach California to Crescent City California is about the same distance it takes to get from San Francisco to Canada

Kaliningrad Russia is closer to Ottawa Canada than to big diomede russia

Libby Montana is further west than Needles California

extreme western Florida is further west than extreme eastern Illinois and extreme eastern Wisconsin

extreme western Kentucky is further west than extreme eastern Minnesota

Amarillo texas is closer to Omaha Nebraska than to Houston Texas

Follett Texas is closer to Joilet Illinois than to Brownsville Texas

Amarillo Texas is closer to Des Moines Iowa than to Brownsville Texas

extreme northern New Jersey is almost (by a few miles) as close to Canada as it is to the water border of New Jersey with delaware on the delaware bay

central New Jersey is closer to Antarctica than it is to New Delhi India or Samoa

extreme western Portugal (western flores island azores) is closer to extreme eastern Maine than it is to Marseille France

Horn Island Australia is closer to Manila Philippines than it is to southern Tasmania Australia

Texline Texas is closer to Bozeman Montana than to Brownsville Texas
Wow! Those are great. Thanks for posting.
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Old 04-27-2012, 10:37 PM
 
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Thanks for clearing that up, wondered why there were oddballs in the group. Here in DFW, we have WBAP and WRR on the radio and WFAA on TV. Does the same ruling apply to television stations as well?

Also, fittingly, WACO is in Waco, TX.
The furthest west "W" call letters I can find are WOAI San Antonio. Here is an interesting link:

K/W Call Letters in the United States
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