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Where's the furthest you've been north, south, east and west?

191 replies

RealHousewivesOfTaunton · 27/10/2024 10:17

In the UK:
North: Gleneagles
South: Lizard
East: Great Yarmouth
West: Giant's Causeway

Globally:
North: Helsinki
South: Johannesburg
East: Shanghai
West: Las Vegas

OP posts:
Ellmau · 27/10/2024 18:29

UK
North Nairn
West Lands End
South Isle of Wight (unless Guernsey counts)
East Dover

World
North Iceland
West also Iceland
East Cappadocia (Turkey)
South Malta

DreadPirateRobots · 27/10/2024 18:32

Furthest north: whichever is further out of Aberdeen and St Petersburg
Furthest south: the southern tip of New Zealand's South Island
Furthest East: Auckland
Furthest West: Vancouver

Penguinsa · 27/10/2024 18:46

North - Artic circle Finnish lapland
South - Either Cape Town or Sydney both seem same though maybe Cape of Good Hope by a whisker.
East - Port Stephens Australia
West - Costa Rica

UK South and West Isles of Scilly
North Isles of Skye
East Great Yarmouth

LostInTheColonies · 27/10/2024 18:50

UK:
N: Orkney
S: Falmouth
E: Dover
W: Fishguard (unless Falmouth is further west!)

World:
N: Husavik (Iceland)
S: Punta Arenas
E: Fiji
W: Los Angeles

notimagain · 27/10/2024 18:50

@Ezekiela

Isn't Cape Wrath further north than Vancouver Island?

Yep, by several hundred miles/several degrees of latitude.

Many of the large population centers in Canada are actually further South on the globe than most of the UK.

FWIW Personal list of worldwide places I’ve set foot.

N Helsinki

S Port Stanley
E Auckland
W Vancouver.

mamaduckbone · 27/10/2024 18:58

In the U.K.:
North - Pitlochry
South - Lands End
West - St David's
East - Southwold

Globally;
North - Oslo
South and West- Gran Canaria
East - Warsaw
Never travelled outside of Europe (yet)

JustAnonymous · 27/10/2024 19:02

North- Inverness
South - Naples
East - Berlin
West - Orlando

DanceToTheMusicInMyHead · 27/10/2024 19:03

UK

North- Sanday (Orkney)
South- Lizard
West- Belleek in Northern Ireland (heading towards Bundoran in ROI)
East- Dover

World

North- Talinn
South- Hermanus (RSA)
West- Lanzarote
East- Dubai

WorriedRelative · 27/10/2024 19:04

North - Scotland
South - Southern Egypt or the Florida Keys
East - Turkey
West - San Francisco

Crossingabsolutelyeverything · 27/10/2024 19:11

North - Helsinki
South - Launceston, Tasmania
East - Hong Kong
West - Hawaii

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 27/10/2024 19:12

In the UK;
N- Papa Westray
S- Lizard Point
E - Lowestoft
W - Londonderry

Globally:
N- Finish Arctic
S - South Africa
E- Kenya
W - Mexico

I'm doing E and W based on a world map with the uk at the centre of the northern hemisphere.

FuckThePoPo · 27/10/2024 19:16

North - M25
South - M25
East -M25
West - M25

Gingerisgoodforyou · 27/10/2024 19:22

UK
N - Inverness
W - Iona
S - Polperro
E - Dover

Worldwide
N - Lapland
W - Vancouver
S - Dunedin
E - Matsuyama

FromCuddleLand · 27/10/2024 19:22

North: Alesund, Norway
South: Stewart Island, NZ
East: Hong Kong
West : LA

UK
North: Unst, Shetland
South: Lizard Point, Cornwall (actually, Im Wrong, it was Scilly)
East: Broadstairs
West: Port Erin, Isle of Man

TheCompactPussycat · 27/10/2024 19:27

TheDowagerCountessofPembroke · 27/10/2024 10:35

In the U.K.

North: Inverness
East: Lowestoft
South and West: Exeter

Hang on! You're the Dowager Countess of Pembroke and you've never been further west than Exeter??? Shocking!

😂😂

HawkersSouth · 27/10/2024 19:33

N: Artic Circle, Norway
S: Hobart, Tasmania
E: East coast of Australia
W: Hawaii

TheCompactPussycat · 27/10/2024 19:51

British Isles:
North: Jedburgh
South: Lizard Point
East: Beccles
West: Cork

Global:
North: Jedburgh
South: Hobart (Tasmania)
East: Brisbane
West: Havana

Catsmere · 27/10/2024 20:08

All mine are from the starting point of Melbourne.

North - Urquhart Castle
South - Auckland
West - Chester
East - Chicago

TheDowagerCountessofPembroke · 27/10/2024 20:57

TheCompactPussycat · 27/10/2024 19:27

Hang on! You're the Dowager Countess of Pembroke and you've never been further west than Exeter??? Shocking!

😂😂

Being the Countess of Pembroke does not necessitate visiting or living in Pembroke, just ask Duke of Devonshire. I live in Wiltshire

SiobhanSharpe · 27/10/2024 21:08

North - Copenhagen
South - Cape Town, SA.
East - Tokyo
West - Tampa, FL.

twentysevendresses · 27/10/2024 21:11

North: Iceland
South: Falkland Islands
East: Bulgaria (not very exciting, sorry 😂)
West: Easter Islands

SiobhanSharpe · 27/10/2024 21:14

I think i need to change my West to Havana from Tampa. (Forgot i'd been to Cuba some 20 years ago and looking at a fairly crappy map it seems Havana is slightly West of Tampa. )

TheCompactPussycat · 27/10/2024 21:16

TheDowagerCountessofPembroke · 27/10/2024 20:57

Being the Countess of Pembroke does not necessitate visiting or living in Pembroke, just ask Duke of Devonshire. I live in Wiltshire

Ah, me too. An excellent county!

😂😁

lemondropsandchimneytops · 27/10/2024 21:21

UK
North - Isle of Lewis
East - Norfolk
South - Lizard
West - Enniskillen

Worldwide
North - Isle of Lewis
East - Tamil Nadu, India
South - Nairobi
West - San Francisco

JaneIves · 27/10/2024 21:24

Reykjavik
Queenstown NZ
HCMC
Orlando

Arbroath
Lizard point
Lowestoft
Lizard point