Place guessing

Nick22 · **Reply #440 on:** December 06, 2006, 05:32:05 PM

nope.. think magellan..

Malte279 · **Reply #441 on:** December 06, 2006, 06:01:44 PM

Tierra del Fuego! (Thanks for the hint, this one was helping I guess. I don't want to celebrate too early).

Nick22 · **Reply #442 on:** December 06, 2006, 06:10:37 PM

You got it.. Tierra del Fuego is one of the most remote places on Earth, only 600 miles from Antartica at its southernmost point. It is shared between Argentina and Chile and is seperted from the mainland continent by the straights of Magellan. It is very desolate, and sparsely populated.

Malte279 · **Reply #443 on:** December 07, 2006, 02:24:48 AM

The point which is the farthest from the core.

prehistorian · **Reply #444 on:** December 25, 2006, 11:31:27 AM

The summit of Mt. Everest?

Malte279 · **Reply #445 on:** December 25, 2006, 07:28:00 PM

No, but you are on the right track (in looking for a summit). Keep in mind, that the earth is not a perfectly geometric sphere.

prehistorian · **Reply #446 on:** December 26, 2006, 12:25:33 AM

The North or South Pole?

Malte279 · **Reply #447 on:** December 26, 2006, 04:44:56 AM

Nope, the point farthest from the core is in fact a mountain's top. Mount Everests top is the highest above sea level, yet not the furthest from the earth's core. The Mountain we are talking of is not located in Asia.

prehistorian · **Reply #448 on:** December 26, 2006, 07:32:20 AM

(scratches head)

The summit of Chimborazo, Ecuador?

(Answer from Wikipedia. All I knew about Chimborazo before was that it was a volcano.)

Malte279 · **Reply #449 on:** December 26, 2006, 02:26:05 PM

Correct!
Your turn

prehistorian · **Reply #450 on:** December 26, 2006, 07:23:59 PM

These Spanish cities are not in Spain but on the African continent.

Malte279 · **Reply #451 on:** December 27, 2006, 06:41:49 AM

Ceuta and Melilla?

prehistorian · **Reply #452 on:** December 27, 2006, 07:23:13 AM

Correct.

Malte279 · **Reply #453 on:** December 27, 2006, 01:54:37 PM

The capital of the place named after the place where the Collossus was placed.

prehistorian · **Reply #454 on:** December 27, 2006, 10:51:31 PM

Colossus--Rhodes--Rhodesia--Zimbabwe--Harare?

(Note, only the last one is my answer.)

Malte279 · **Reply #455 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:28:47 AM

No, not quite as complex. Rhodes is indeed the place where the collossus was placed. I'm not sure if indeed the name Rhodesia is originally derived from Rhodes. Here is a hint that may help figuring out the name of that place whose capital is the answer: "What is Rhode s"?

prehistorian · **Reply #456 on:** December 28, 2006, 06:17:14 AM

Are you perhaps referring to the US state of Rhode Island? If so, then its capital is Providence.

Malte279 · **Reply #457 on:** December 28, 2006, 08:52:14 AM

Providence is the place and your turn it is

prehistorian · **Reply #458 on:** December 28, 2006, 10:11:49 AM

This island was the first point of land, outside Antarctica, to see sunrise on January 1, 2000. Give the island name and the country it is located in.

Nick22 · **Reply #459 on:** December 28, 2006, 01:37:09 PM

Vanatu?