Which brings me back to my original comment that it depends on how you
define "east" (no more Clinton jokes, please :> ).  Just because the
International Date Line was moved for convenience sake does mean that the
180 degree meridian was moved as well.


At 03:43 PM 08/07/00, Ted Ashton wrote:
>Thus it was written in the epistle of Steven Dickson,
> > Everyone who choose Alaska as The Furthest North, West, and East; and
> > Hawaii as the Furthest South is correct.  Because Attu Island sits at the
> > 172 degrees East Meridian it is further East of Maine.
>
>I beg to differ:
>
>http://www.tsuru-bird.net/attu/
>Attu is the westernmost island of the Aleutians, nearly 2000 miles west of
>Anchorage and the westernmost point in North America causing the International
>Date Line to make a big jag to the west.


Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
http://www.northtech.com