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minus-squarehope@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 days agoFun fact, the easternmost point in the US is actually on Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska.
minus-squareboonhet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoSo this is only technically true. If we chose another place for the zero meridian, it wouldn’t be the case. Reasonably you’d plot the entire US on a map and find the easternmost point.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 days agoPast Randal Monroe was bothered that the US isn’t the center of everything, apparently.
Fun fact, the easternmost point in the US is actually on Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska.
So this is only technically true.
If we chose another place for the zero meridian, it wouldn’t be the case. Reasonably you’d plot the entire US on a map and find the easternmost point.
https://xkcd.com/503/
Past Randal Monroe was bothered that the US isn’t the center of everything, apparently.