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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Lanaki:
hawaii is the most remote land mass on earth. I thought Easter Island had that title wrapped up? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Hey Numbfingers.
What's happened to your grumpy cousin, 4fingers???
Has the international membership given him the 2 fingers? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Mongooses don't do rat patrol? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Al, please delete this. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | let it go.
Al's on an airplane today. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | This will go on our permanent records???
I'll try to be nicer when they try to be smarter. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | DUUHHHHHH
Which way did they go
Which way did they go |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Woody....
Congrats on passing the 8K mark........
(but checking on my first of year predictions, Jeff is still on track!) |
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Location: SoCal | Clifford's got over 9200 posts!!!! I remember when I was the number 1 poster on the board. Thank god I got a life and was saved from that fate...... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I just love the way we can work together to take a bitchy thread that we all wish would die a quick death by abandonment....and turn it into another humourous and informative discussion.
 
Or informative and humourous, whichever |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So when he hits 10000 will it show all zeroes?
When I hit 10000 does it mean that I'm a Zero? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by an4340:
Mongooses don't do rat patrol? i guess chicken tastes better. and guess what mongoose tastes like...? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by muzza:
Originally posted by Lanaki:
hawaii is the most remote land mass on earth. I thought Easter Island had that title wrapped up? |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | what about Pitcairn? |
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Location: NJ | I thought it was St. Helena (where they shipped Napoleon off to) . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | by definition of proximity to next nearest land mass... Hawaii is the most remote place on earth |
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Location: big island | well said, jeff. thanks for clearing the volcanic air! |
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Location: closely held secret | He's usually better at clearing a room... because of the air. |
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Location: big island | you one wascally wabbit, wabbit! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I fart, therefore, I am. |
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Location: big island | therefore, we all are.
ka-boom!!! there goes the neighborhood! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by cwk2:
let it go.
Al's on an airplane today. No, I meant my post. I thought about what I'd written and the humour didn't come across, so I asked Al to delete my post, not the thread. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | No, no... I think most of us are old enough to remember M*A*S*H, the movie and the poster.
Two fingers in Britain (& Oz apparently)
means the same as
One finger in North America
and the answer to the original question is, yes. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
by definition of proximity to next nearest land mass... Hawaii is the most remote place on earth But... Hawaii is only a few miles away from Maui.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_world#Remoteness
http://geography.about.com/od/specificplacesofinterest/a/tristandac...
According to WikiPedia;
The most remote island is Bouvet Island, an uninhabited and small Norwegian island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies at coordinates 54°26?S 3°24?E. The nearest land is the uninhabited Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, over 1600 km away to the south. The nearest inhabited land are Tristan da Cunha, 2260 km away and South Africa, 2580 km away.
The most remote archipelago is the British Tristan da Cunha Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2816 km (1750 miles) from South Africa and 3360 km (2088 miles) from South America. This is also the most remote inhabited archipelago.
The most remote, major inhabited city is either Honolulu, Hawaii or Perth in western Australia, depending upon one's definition of "remote" and "major." There are no settlements within 3800 km of Honolulu or within 2200 km of Perth larger than the 30,000 to 50,000 population range (Hilo, Hawaii and Geraldton and Kalgoorlie, Australia.
If it's on the internet, it must be true! ;)
This subject sparked my interest - I always thought it was Easter Island, but the above 2 references keep coming up with the various searches I've been doing. No mention of Hawaii except for Lanaki and JeffW. |
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