How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]

[BleAivano]

Ok, I suspect this one will be answered fairly quickly...

If you were to sail due north from Tahiti what would be the first land mass you would encounter?

Well I know the approximative location of Tahiti in the Polynesia region of the south Pacific, but exactly where Tahiti is and what
other islands that are nearby is more difficult to say but my guess is Hawaii.

[steveaki13]

What is a land mass? I mean there might be a tony atoll somewhere around the French Polynesian area, or increasing in size Hawaii is north or failing that its probably Russia.

[Zeakiwi]

If sailing north of Tahiti you would have to watch out for Caroline Atoll also known as Millennium Island. When sailing you seldom sail in a straight line there is more zig zagging due to the direction of the wind.
You could argue as a coral atoll it is not 'land' technically, but your yacht/ sailing vessel would run still aground. You require a marine chart for other subsurface reefs and be mindful of uncharted reefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Island

[janvanvurpa]

If sailing north of Tahiti you would have to watch out for Caroline Atoll also known as Millennium Island. When sailing you seldom sail in a straight line there is more zig zagging due to the direction of the wind.
You could argue as a coral atoll it is not 'land' technically, but your yacht/ sailing vessel would run still aground. You require a marine chart for other subsurface reefs and be mindful of uncharted reefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Island

Yeah but the operative word is Land MASS.

Like Alaska is a MASS and that's what you'd prolly hit. dress warm.

[steveaki13]

Yeah but the operative word is Land MASS.

Like Alaska is a MASS and that's what you'd prolly hit. dress warm.

I think you right. I was torn between Russia and Alaska/USA.

[schmenke]

Yes, janvanvurpa is correct, land mass refers to a sizable chunk of land, and Alaska is what I was looking for. Specifically, the landing spot would be just south of Anchorage.

[Starter]

Yes, janvanvurpa is correct, land mass refers to a sizable chunk of land, and Alaska is what I was looking for. Specifically, the landing spot would be just south of Anchorage.

Hence the city's name?

[gadjo_dilo]

"You can't think like that!
What would happen if everybody thought that way?" <----bonus points for the name of one of greatest books ever written that that is a quote from

OK, nobody got the bonus points but you can't leave us like this ( I mean in ignorance....) . Please tell us the name of the book.

[janvanvurpa]

Yes, janvanvurpa is correct, land mass refers to a sizable chunk of land, and Alaska is what I was looking for. Specifically, the landing spot would be just south of Anchorage.

I drove up in Feb.1985 with a customer in a great winter car"SAAB 96 with the mighty V4---3500km snow the whole way...-53 in Yukon where I got to change a water pump..But my guy said the name of the place was (un)officially---are ya ready?
Los Anchorage because if the 50km radius of non moving rush hour traffic twice a day.

I have called it that since that day.

[janvanvurpa]

OK, nobody got the bonus points but you can't leave us like this ( I mean in ignorance....) . Please tell us the name of the book.

The book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller...the dialog was he's in the airfield mess hall and he is panicing because he's a bombardier sitting in the node of a B25 with just 6.25mm of flexi-glass between him and all the German flak going off all around and he says he wants to get medical discharge because "They're trying to kill me!!!"

His comrades are all very realxed and tell him "They're not trying to kill you Yossarian, they're trying to kill everybody! You can't take it so personally"
He says "But I'm a person aren't I? They're trying to kill me"

They then say "You can't think of it like that. What would happen if everybody thought that way?"

Yosarrian answers logically "Then I'd be be crazy to think otherwise!"
That book may be the best book of the last century.