Remember when we weer on Baseline Avenue and you made some remark
about how we were further north than I was used to, and I replied that
actually 40 North runs right through Philadelphia?  I was looking in
the atlas today, and it was pretty interesting to see which cities
were at which latitudes.  Some surprises there.  So for your
entertainment, here's an incomplete list; note that all latitudes are
approximate:


60:	Anchorage.
55:	Frozen wastes.
53:	Calgary/Edmonton.
50:	Vancouver. Regina. Winnipeg.
47:	Seattle. Great Falls. Duluth. Quebec.
45:	Portland. Minneapolis. Montreal.
43:	Chicago/Milwaukee. Detroit. Boston/New York.
40:	Denver. Indianapolis. Philadelphia.
38:	San Francisco. Kansas City. St Louis. Cincinnati. Washington.
35:	Bakersfield. Albuquerque. Memphis. Charlotte.
33:	Los Angeles. Phoenix. Atlanta.
30:	Houston. New Orleans. Jacksonville.

25:	Miami

20:	Honolulu


Surprises: The big surprise for me is how far north Seattle is.  I
guess being on the ocean makes it warmer than inland cities at the
same latitude like Spokane.

Similarly, I knew Anchorage was far north, but I didn't realize how
much further north it was than practically everything else.  Last year
it occurred to me for the first time that I think of Northern
Minnesota and North Dakota and Montana as being cold frozen
places---but the southermost points in Alberta and Saskatchewan are
north of the northernmost points in Montana.  But Anchorage is north
of the northernmost points in Alberta and Saskatchewan, which I don't
think had occurred to me before.  Anchorage is about as far north as
Yakutsk.




Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			                 mjd@plover.com
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