hi John, you are right. For example the southernmost point of France is 21° 23' 23'' S. Yes South. Because Réunion is France. There are many other similar examples, they are all correct like your example for Australia. Australia is not the only country to put at the South Pole its southernmost point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_of_Antarctica). The southernmost point of Norway is the Peter I isle, 68° 50' S.
I'm collecting the extreme coordinates of the mainlands, in the common sense of this expression; then I'll collect the extreme coordinates of the geographically separate territories so the software can check if the coordinates of a sundial card are congruous with the address. In the Sundial Atlas database I have the lists of the countries (240), of the first geographic suddivisions (1183, like states in USA, regions in Italy, lands in Germany and so on) and of the second geographic suddivisions (6580, like counties in USA, provinces in Italy, districts in Germany and so on). In my lists, Australia has 'Australian Antarctic Territory' too. But there aren't registered sundials too :-) ciao Fabio Fabio Savian [email protected] Paderno Dugnano, Milan, Italy 45° 34' 10'' N 9° 10' 9'' E GMT +1 (DST +2) ----- Original Message ----- From: John Pickard To: Sundial List Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:35 PM Subject: Re: coordinates Good morning Fabio, Here is the official geographic view of Australia's dimensions ... http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/continental-extremities.html Any reasonable person would assume that when you ask for the extreme points of Australia, that you mean the "corners" of the continent itself as listed in the URL. But being an (unreasonable ?) pedant, and one who has worked in Antarctica several times, I would gently point out that the southern-most point of Australia (as a nation) is actually the South Pole. The Australian Antarctic Territory is legally part of Australia, and this ends at the South Pole. I have won several bets with this on the simple question "What is the southern-most point of Australia?" Cheers, John John Pickard [email protected] In chilly Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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