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Old Posted Jul 16, 2013, 3:09 PM
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The Distance To...

I love those signs that show the distance from where you're standing to various points around the world.

Timeanddate.com has an easy little tool to calculate the straight-line distance between any two cities on earth. It's fun to explore - and there will probably be a few surprises for you.

Here, for example, is the distance from St. John's to some various cities. I've bolded all of the non-Canadian ones for comparison:

Halifax: 899 kilometers
Augusta (Maine): 1368 kilometers
Quebec City: 1404 kilometers
Boston: 1554 kilometers
New York City: 1859 kilometers
Hamilton (Bermuda): 1979 kilometers
Toronto: 2114 kilometers
Ponta Delgada (Azores): 2454 kilometers
Reykjavik: 2621 kilometers
Winnipeg (CENTRE OF CANADA): 3230 kilometers
Dublin: 3300 kilometers
Miami: 3413 kilometers
Lisbon: 3627 kilometers
London (U.K.): 3750 kilometers
Havana: 3779 kilometers
Madrid: 3943 kilometers
Paris: 4003 kilometers
Rabat (Morocco): 4082 kilometers
Yellowknife: 4091 kilometers
Dakhla (Western Sahara): 4191 kilometers
Oslo: 4220 kilometers
Edmonton: 4225 kilometers
Caracas (Venezuela): 4319 kilometers
Zurich: 4493 kilometers
Berlin: 4599 kilometers
Algiers (Algeria): 4656 kilometers
Prague: 4768 kilometers
Dakar (Senegal, West Africa): 4885 kilometers
Panama: 4966 kilometers
Helsinki: 4975 kilometers
Vienna: 4985 kilometers
Vancouver: 5020 kilometers
Rome: 5050 kilometers
Victoria (B.C.): 5078 kilometers
Warsaw: 5089 kilometers
Whitehorse: 5193 kilometers

What about yours? Any surprise you?

I was surprised that we're closer to Yellowknife than Edmonton. The curvature of the earth has a greater impact than I thought, given how far south of Edmonton we are (we'd be in the States if we were that far west). I just assumed it would be farther to Yellowknife for that reason.

Also, being closer to Africa than Alberta is a bit of a surprise as well. I knew were were close, but I imagined it'd be just a few hundred kilometres shy of the distance to B.C., not THAT much closer.
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