How Good is Your Geographic? [4]

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Originally Posted by schmenke

You'd be surprised :p :

O.k., here's a geo tidbit that I recently came across that I found interesting, although the answer is really not that difficult when you think about it, so donkoogling should not be required :p :

At what approximate latitude is circumnavigation of the earth possible without touching land or permanent ice?

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Hmmmm! I guess just north of the Antarctic? No idea of the latitude though!

90° from equator to pole. Guessing about 75° S?

Your're both too far south.

Well, the Americas pose a formidable barrier to most of the latitudes, so I'd guess either 56 deg S (Tierra Del Fuego) or 83 deg N (upper tip of Greenland).

Maybe just south of Patagonia then? Would that be around 60 degrees S?

Yep, you both got it, edv and studiose.
Anywhere between 55 to 60 deg. south will do.

Since you two posted pretty much simultaneously you can squabble over the next Q :p : .

Edv was first. ;)

OK gimme a few minutes to prepare something that's Google-proof....

The world has seen the creation of many new countries over the past 21 years.
Here's one of them.
Name it.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...p/country1.png

Kosovo?