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Located in the Bering Strait | Located in the Bering Strait, 168.75° West of the IERS Reference Meridian. | ||
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The first solution would consist in returning, with some small modification, to the solution of the ancients, by placing our meridian near the Azores; the second by throwing it back to that immense expanse of water which separates America from Asia, where on its northern shores the New World abuts on the old." | The first solution would consist in returning, with some small modification, to the solution of the ancients, by placing our meridian near the Azores; the second by throwing it back to that immense expanse of water which separates America from Asia, where on its northern shores the New World abuts on the old." | ||
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Many common maps of the world have the Chukotka Peninsula to the right hand, using the Bering Strait as right-hand map limit. | Many common maps of the world have the Chukotka Peninsula to the right hand, using the Bering Strait as right-hand map limit. | ||
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_the_world | * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_the_world | ||
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peters_projection,_date_line_in_Bering_strait.svg | |||
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Located in the Bering Strait, 168.75° West of the IERS Reference Meridian.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17759/17759-h/17759-h.htm
SESSION OF OCTOBER 6, 1884.
Mr. Janssen, Delegate of France:
"Upon the globe, nature has so sharply separated the continent on which the great American nation has arisen, that there are only two solutions possible from a geographical point of view, both of them very natural.
The first solution would consist in returning, with some small modification, to the solution of the ancients, by placing our meridian near the Azores; the second by throwing it back to that immense expanse of water which separates America from Asia, where on its northern shores the New World abuts on the old."
Many common maps of the world have the Chukotka Peninsula to the right hand, using the Bering Strait as right-hand map limit.
