• hope@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Fun fact, the easternmost point in the US is actually on Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska.

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      5 months ago

      So this is only technically true.

      If we chose another place for the zero meridian, it wouldn’t be the case. Reasonably you’d plot the entire US on a map and find the easternmost point.

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        5 months ago

        Just did that and Semisopochnoi Island still came out as the easternmost point.