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Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:39:24 GMT
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"David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message
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> Takes me 20 hours(ish) of straight driving to get from my place in Ontario • to
> the next province--Manitoba
Yep, your provinces are pretty big...
> Though I'd say the best story about size and geography--a friends father • tagged
> along with a university undergrad study course to look at trees in the • former
> Soviet Union. It took a bunch of connecting flights to get to Moscow, at • which
> time he boards another jet, flies 7 hours east, and lands in the same • country on
> the same land mass. (So no talking about Hawaii ;) )
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> Yeah, that's big.
Careful though, 7 hours doesn't sound that impressive. Boston to LA non-stop
is 6 hours. Oh, and your little exclusion doesn't exclude Alaska, so,
assuming you could find it, a non-stop from Miami to Anchorage ought to be
in excess of 7 hours...
> I don't think either Canada or the US could compete with that.
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> The guy had a great time--21 days camping in the largest forest in the • world.
> What was the stat again--1 forest wider than the continental US? My • memory may
> be faulty on that part of the story... but yeah, that's big.
But you're right, the USSR was pretty darn big...
Frank
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| (...) Takes me 20 hours(ish) of straight driving to get from my place in Ontario to the next province--Manitoba Though I'd say the best story about size and geography--a friends father tagged along with a university undergrad study course to look at (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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