On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[email protected] > wrote:
> >All of Spain is further north than Tennessee, the US state where I live. > Tennessee is on about the same >latitude as Algeria. > > That's another example of the "anticlockwise axis tilt" of perceptions of > places versus where they actually are. > > I've noticed that several places in the world are tilted anticlockwise > compared to where one expects them to be. > > To me living in the UK, the natural way of thinking suggests that > Edinburgh-London-Paris are on a N-S axis. They're not, it's actually > NNW-SSE - tilted anticlockwise. > > Likewise I imagine Paris and New York, and London-Amsterdam-Berlin-Moscow, > to be on W-E axes. Again they're not, it's approx WSW-ENE in all cases, so > again the axis is tilted anticlockwise. > > Tennessee I'd have imagined, before I realised (some years ago) how much > further south the USA is compared to where you think it is, as being about > the same as southern France or northern Spain. > > The much wetter climate of the USA compared to most of Spain, and > certainly north Africa, plays a role in this. My one visit to SE USA was > changing planes at Atlanta, GA and it was very green - comparable to the > UK or France. > > OK, so if we tilt Spain enough then Girona is in southern Spain. Cool...
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