The furthest point from where you are

[TPFKA@W]

http://furthestcity.com/



Perth, Australia for me.

[Gob]

San Cristóbal De La Laguna, Spain 18,455 miles

[Lord Jim]

I'm not so sure about this...

In the 100,000 plus population category, I'm getting "Saint-Paul (La Réunion), France" (I'll double check, but I don't think France is on the opposite side of the globe to San Francisco...)

The 1 million plus population location seems to make more sense:

"Antananarivo, Madagascar"

It's telling me that France is further from Ess Eff than Madagascar and Zimbabwe...

That just doesn't make sense...

[wesw]

isn t la reunion an island off Madagascar? perhaps controlled by france?

[Bicycle Bill]

This time I believe wes is correct.
I used Rochester MN as my start point (about 65 miles away from where I am seated right now) and — after being warned that the absolute furthest spot was likely in the middle of the ocean somewhere — wound up 17,214 klicks away in Perth, Australia.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

Oh gee, you guys are right...

"Saint-Paul La Réunion, France"

Ain't in France...

It's off the south-east coast of Africa...

Now I feel like a complete ignoramus...

(Which frankly is a feeling that unfortunately I have some acquaintance with... )

I give other people a hard time for not knowing basic geography, and then I make a boneheaded mistake like that...

[wesw]

sorry, you can tell people that you don t know me . I don t mind.....

[MajGenl.Meade]

http://furthestcity.com/

Perth, Australia for me.

Hey, I got Perth also.... did you move?

[datsunaholic]

I get the same place as LJ. Not a surprise, being in the same timezone.

[wesw]

well I was told as a little boy that if I dug my hole any deeper that I was gonna dig all the way to china, so I got Beijing....

[dales]

DISTANCE FROM OAKLAND, CA - UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA:

Furthest Cities (Population 100k+)


City

Distance (km)

Saint-Paul (La Réunion), France 18,128
Saint-Denis (La Réunion), France 18,116
Saint-Denis, Réunion 18,116
Vacoas - Phoenix, Mauritius 18,064
Beau Bassin - Rose Hill, Mauritius 18,056



Furthest Cities (Population 1,000,000+)


City

Distance (km)

Antananarivo, Madagascar 17,692
Harare, Zimbabwe 16,605
Lusaka, Zambia 16,208
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 16,105
Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo 15,841

[TPFKA@W]

http://furthestcity.com/

Perth, Australia for me.

Hey, I got Perth also.... did you move?

Do I need to?

[Econoline]

I also got Perth (17,666 mi.). Apparently from the perspective of someone in Perth, Bill, Meade, @W, CP and I are all next-door neighbors to each other. (Just like Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, I can see Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan from my house... )

[datsunaholic]

Well, the reason is that the antipode of most of the US is in the middle of the Indian ocean. So, West Coasters would find the antipode closer to the West Indian Ocean (hence closer to Madagascar or Mauritius, or in the case of Anchorage AK, South Africa) but East Coasters, it's the East Indian Ocean (closer to Perth, Western Australia.).

I did a bit of searching, and found that the city (on their list) with it's antipode most "Centered" in the Indian Ocean would be Wichita, Kansas. Vacoas - Phoenix, Mauritius is only 22 miles further from Wichita than Perth is.

[Guinevere]

I also got Perth (17,666 mi.). Apparently from the perspective of someone in Perth, Bill, Meade, @W, CP and I are all next-door neighbors to each other. (Just like Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, I can see Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan from my house... )

Apparently you can see Boston, too.

Furtherest city: Perth Australia, 18,702.

[Daisy]

Christchurch New Zealand is the furthest point from me.

[Fafhrd]

The furthest point from where you are is called "antipodes". No large body of land is at the antipodes from the US. Noth Island, New Zealand, is at the antipodes from parts of Spain, and southern Argentina and Chile are at the antipodes from parts of China and Siberia. There's a map of the world in the Wikipedia article "Antipodes" showing the relationships

[Long Run]

I'm not so sure about this...

Agreed, you just need to drive up to Redding to get about as far away from The City as you'll ever get.

[RayThom]

"Philadelphia PA, in the United States of America, is not the furthest city of any city with a population over 100,000."

For much of my adult life I've been telling anyone who would listen the exact opposite. I am now starting to think I may have been wrong about other things, too. Damn!

[Econoline]

I'm pretty sure that site says the same thing about every other city whose "furthest point" is listed as Perth.

(It seems I can see you from my house, too, Ray! Hi!)