This is true? - Geographic oddities that defy conventional wisdom

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freebrickproductions

Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 14, 2024, 01:24:51 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 14, 2024, 01:14:35 PMForget if I ever mentioned it, but Huntsville, AL, is closer to Dayton, OH, than it is to Orlando, FL, at least by road.

This is what I would have assumed. Tennessee and Kentucky are "skinny" whereas Alabama and Florida are not.

Part of why I brought it up is that I was talking to a British person I know who at least has a vague working knowledge of the US (due to traveling to conventions and the like), and he proceeded to have a bit of a confused expression while trying to mentally map-out where things were relative to each other.
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JayhawkCO

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I think one that might confuse some people is that Denver is closer to Detroit than it is to Seattle, via road.

Rothman

Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 14, 2024, 01:24:51 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 14, 2024, 01:14:35 PMForget if I ever mentioned it, but Huntsville, AL, is closer to Dayton, OH, than it is to Orlando, FL, at least by road.

This is what I would have assumed. Tennessee and Kentucky are "skinny" whereas Alabama and Florida are not.

I second the lack of amazement on this one, although I did like the recent Canadian/Bostonian one.
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JayhawkCO

Just saw this one and thought it interesting. The five different colored bands all have equal population.


Rothman

Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 14, 2024, 05:34:47 PMJust saw this one and thought it interesting. The five different colored bands all have equal population.



Not so surprising.  Too bad the nutty guy that built Brasilia's quixotic ambitions never came to fruition about settling the interior.
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hbelkins

Quote from: Rothman on March 04, 2024, 10:43:18 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on March 04, 2024, 10:08:34 PMThe "mighty" Hudson River is only 315 miles long and discharges 21,900 ft3/sec into the ocean at its mouth. Most of its length is an ocean estuary created by glaciation.

The White River (AR/MO) is 733 miles long and its discharge into the Mississippi is 26,180 ft3.
White River?  Never heard of it.

Remember the Clinton "Whitewater" scandal of the 1990s? Its name came from the White River.
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Scott5114

Quote from: hbelkins on October 16, 2024, 01:33:06 PM
Quote from: Rothman on March 04, 2024, 10:43:18 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on March 04, 2024, 10:08:34 PMThe "mighty" Hudson River is only 315 miles long and discharges 21,900 ft3/sec into the ocean at its mouth. Most of its length is an ocean estuary created by glaciation.

The White River (AR/MO) is 733 miles long and its discharge into the Mississippi is 26,180 ft3.
White River?  Never heard of it.

Remember the Clinton "Whitewater" scandal of the 1990s? Its name came from the White River.

It is also the river that is impounded to form Table Rock Lake just outside of Branson. The dam was closed to begin filling Table Rock after the new, higher MO-13 bridge over the lake was finished, but before MHTD was done demolishing the old truss bridge. The lake unexpectedly filled so quickly that the old bridge was inundated before MHTD could even get all of their equipment off of it. All of it, along with the bridge, is still at the bottom of the lake, and you can see video on YouTube of divers exploring it.
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JayhawkCO

The largest national park in the European Union is in South America.

pderocco

The largest park in the continental US isn't even a national park, it's the NY state Adirondack Park.

Rothman

Quote from: pderocco on November 03, 2024, 03:01:02 AMThe largest park in the continental US isn't even a national park, it's the NY state Adirondack Park.

Alaska's not on the continent?

Also have to be very careful with the Adirondack Park's size since not all land within the Blue Line is protected.
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CNGL-Leudimin

I thought the Chilean coast was perfectly North-South, but it actually slants West the further South one goes. It turns out San Carlos de Bariloche, in the Argentinian Andes, is further West than Iquique on the Northern coast of Chile.
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