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Can't be Poland if I guessed France and I was off by 5,900kms :mark: .
The triangulation would work but I'd have to plot it on a map! LOL!
I'm thinking perhaps closer to the equator, say 15 deg. North and longtitude ~80 East which would place Edgar's tired wings somewhere in southern India?
Now you are getting very warm schmenke!!! :bounce: Only 960kms to go!! More or less...........Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
960 km further north, say around the Ganges delta ? :p
cool stuff indeed :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Breeze
except now I of course bombastically cheated by using t'internet to triangulate :( :arrows: :andrea: :p
Nice pun Sr. Jote. Shall I give you the win?
no! I used internet and in any case I'll be away for a few days (1564 km away, bearing 16.245° :p ) so only intermittent forum access.
your website was too cool to resist :D
give it to the pun man schmonkey if he gets it and wants it...
So there you have it, gents. Clues abound for the clever monkey who can sort them.Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
The somewhat cryptic clues lead me to believe that the coordinates we're looking for might be in the vicinity of Mumbai? :mark:
Schmenke got good grades in school because he payed attention. :monkeedan See how clever he is! :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
You'd be surprised :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Breeze
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?
Hmmmm! I guess just north of the Antarctic? No idea of the latitude though!Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
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?
Not Kosovo.
Knowing that EDV likes to turn us on our head, Ukraine?
Not Ukraine, but you are correct regarding one of my predilections.
South Sudan?
Correct!Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
It became a country last July...the 21 years thing was a red herring LOL
I like herring. No doubt why I took the bait. :rolleyes:
I thought the Q was a tad fishy.
I exhausted my current inventory of geo trivia on the last Q. Someone else have a go :p :
I've got a question.
There are only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked, i.e. not only do they have no coast line, not only would you have to go through another country to get to the sea, but you would have to go through two countries to get to the sea.
One of those countries is in Europe and the other is in Asia. Name those two countries, s'il vous plait.
NB! The Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea (what's left of it) are considered lakes in this question, which they are. :)
Good question, I would look at a map but surely that is considered cheating :)Quote:
Originally Posted by studiose
I'll take a wild stab in the dark with the one in Europe, could it be Switzerland? I have no idea of the one in Asia though!!
You're right, no maps allowed. :)
Switzerland is not a bad guess, but it isn't right, because it's only singly landlocked, not doubly. :)
Definitely a good question studiose. I'll venture the Euro country is Bulgaria and the the Asian country Tajikistan. Warmer but probably still wrong.
One of those is very close, Breeze. I'll say no more than that for now. :)
A promising answer! But please give me a European and an Asian country, not two European ones. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Strange I looked at South Sudan on a map and discounted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
Azerbaijan?
If you count that as the European country then I'd guess that one of the 'stans' has be the Asian one.
I don't, as geographically it is not European. Even though they won the last Eurovision song contest. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
Please be more specific. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
So Azerbaijan was incorrect?
Erm, Romania and Uzebekistan? :\
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
You're half right. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
Now let's put it all together, team. :)
Uzebekistan and Liechtenstein
Well done, Jon. :up: You're right. Liechtenstein and Uz-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan (thank you, Herman Cain) are the only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
Your question. ;)