Geographical facts that surprise you (competitions, where is, used)

[easthome]

Originally Posted by Sickandtiredofthis

Because its just rediculous. England is not in Southern Europe, stop trying to pretend you live in a hot climate.

He didn't say anything about 'climate'??? He is simply giving a geographical fact that surprises us ie if you split Europe in half then some surprising places are below the halfway line between the Northern extremities and the Southern extremities of the European Continent, nobody is suggesting London is in the Southern Hemisphere or 'close to the equator' cant you understand? If anything it just goes to show how 'Northern' the continent of Europe is.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by B87

I didn't include islands in my definition of Europe.

Neither did I, in my second paragraph (which you deleted), Nome to Eastport -- which still put California in the east.

[P London]

Originally Posted by B87

So you're ignoring the facts and deciding to change the subject (even though the midpoint is 53N and London is south of that). London to Tromso is 1400 miles. Travel the same distance to the south and you aren't even in Europe anymore; you're in the middle of the Sahara desert.

I suppose next you'll be telling me I'm wrong if I say that the east of London isn't in the western hemisphere.

Never thought of that before. Greenwich Maritime and all that.

[jtur88]

While 38 of Shakespeare's plays take place in Mediterranean lands, the name "Mediterranean" never occurs in his writings. The name "Mediterranean" was first coined by geographers during Shakespeare's lifetime (and a century after Columbus). Shakespeare himself would have thought of it as "The Great Sea", but he never wrote that, either. Only the Greeks had a name for it (Μεσόγειος, Mesogeios) that implied it was the center of the known world. The Romans called it Mare Nostrum, "Our sea". In the Holy Lands, it was called he Western Sea.

[kikebxl]

Ireland, Portugal and Iceland are the only 3 countries that are both in Europe and completely in the Western Hemisphere.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by kikebxl

Ireland, Portugal and Iceland are the only 3 countries that are both in Europe and completely in the Western Hemisphere.

Wales, too, which is classified as a "country" within the United Kingdom. This, of course, opens a can of worms, as the Isle of Man, which has even more self-governance than Wales, is not generally classified as a country.

[Sickandtiredofthis]

And so is Scotland.

[Sickandtiredofthis]

Originally Posted by easthome

He didn't say anything about 'climate'??? He is simply giving a geographical fact that surprises us ie if you split Europe in half then some surprising places are below the halfway line between the Northern extremities and the Southern extremities of the European Continent, nobody is suggesting London is in the Southern Hemisphere or 'close to the equator' cant you understand? If anything it just goes to show how 'Northern' the continent of Europe is.

Because he tries to say London is hot all the time as if it is Barcelona or something.

[Sickandtiredofthis]

Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia and East Ukraine are further from me than Canada.

[kikebxl]

Originally Posted by Sickandtiredofthis

Because he tries to say London is hot all the time as if it is Barcelona or something.

you'll be surprised to know that even the actual Barcelona is not hot all the time as if it were Barcelona (the idea you have of it)...