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This looks like it could be near some research stations - or maybe not? I'm not sure. Google Maps won't plot it properly as the Mercator projection it uses distorts to infinity near the poles.
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This looks like it could be near some research stations - or maybe not? I'm not sure. Google Maps won't plot it properly as the Mercator projection it uses distorts to infinity near the poles. Intrigued to see just how close to the North Pole 89deg N actually is. --[[User:SpiritofMaurice|SpiritofMaurice]] ([[User talk:SpiritofMaurice|talk]]) 11:01, 22 September 2015 (EDT)
 
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Revision as of 15:01, 22 September 2015



Globalhash on Wed 23 Sep 2015:
88.98768,58.245084

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Location

GLOBALHASH -- Very near the geographic North Pole, at some 89 degrees North, a few thousand km directly north from the Russian island and nuclear testing zone of Novaya Zemlya


| lat=88.98767245 | lon=58.24507166 | date=2015-09-23

Participants

Plans

This looks like it could be near some research stations - or maybe not? I'm not sure. Google Maps won't plot it properly as the Mercator projection it uses distorts to infinity near the poles. Intrigued to see just how close to the North Pole 89deg N actually is. --SpiritofMaurice (talk) 11:01, 22 September 2015 (EDT)

Expedition

Tracklog

Photos

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