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Re: Location, Location, Location

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:59:25 -0700
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>, harry~at~hhayfield.fsnet.co.uk
Cc: wjm2~at~nyu.edu

Dear Harry Hayfield----On page 73 of the Annotated Jules Verne: FRom the
Earth to the Moon (Harper/Collins 1978, Gramercy 1995 updated), you will
find aerial photograph of Stony Hill, as I called it in that
translation. When this 1973 picture was made for the Florida Department
of Transportation, the site was located in a clump of scattered pine and
palmetto. The site is in the northern portion of the city of North Port
as it called today. Verne was having a little joke in calling it a
hill-----Florida is quite flat most of the way, as I recall.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Hayfield" <harry~at~hhayfield.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:28 pm
Subject: Location, Location, Location

> Ever since I downloaded it from the Internet "To the Moon and
> Back" has been
> causing me grief, in terms of figuring out where something is.
>
> According to the book, Stones Hill is "situated eighteen hundred
> feet above
> the level of the sea, in 27~at~ 7' N. lat. and 5@ 7' W. long. of the
> meridianof Washington"
>
> Now, this would suggest that it is located at 27° 7' North and as
> Washingtonis located at 77° 1' 48" West, that would place it at
> 84° 8' 48" West of the
> Greenwich Meridian.
>
> I then logged into the Geochache website, and placed the above GPS
> locationand asked members if they could take a picture of the
> location, expecting a
> flood of photos. No photos arrived, but instead this did:
>
> "It's in the water"
>
> Looking at a map I did indeed note that he was correct.
>
> So my question is "Was there ever an island at 27° 7' North
> Latitude and 84°
> 8' 48" West Longitude and if so what happened to it?"
>
> Harry Hayfield
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