On Mar 12 , at 6:34 AM, Pat Naughtin wrote:
The kilometre high club.
The city of Denver, Colorado states that it is "the mile high city. On
the other hand, the city of Boone, NC (home of Appalachian State
University) is the "kilometre high city".
Unfortunately, Denver makes greater use of its nickname than Boone
does with its.
Bill Hooper
1810 mm tall
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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P.S. a note abut precision:
Boone's altitude is given as "995.5 m", but surely that's close
enough. In the mountains of North Carolina there must be enough
variation in elevation so that SOME place (or PLACES) must be exactly
at 1000 m. I believe the University has claimed that their campus is
at one kilometre.
Similarly in Denver, the "mile high point" is marked on a
particular step of the capital building, indicating that there are
other places in Denver that are not precisely at 5280 ft. either.
We don't need to quibble about precision.
