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Second note on location

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:11:23 -0700
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>, harry~at~hhayfield.fsnet.co.uk, wjm2~at~nyu.edu

Verne's Washington meridian was 77 degrees three minutes west of
Greenwich. That puts Barbicane's launching site in what we now call 82
degrees 10 minutes west long, 27 degrees seven minutes north lat. The
highest hill in Florida is 350 feet above sea level. Walter James
Miller

----- 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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