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baldrick
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: Location, Location
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 Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject: The ___________ in (the) _______________ |
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You know as you travel around you come across lots of claims to fame. The longest, the shortest, the highest etc etc. Was wondering what we could come up with.
I can think of the following off hand that I've come across:
The tallest building in THE WORLD! In Taipei, Taipei 101.
The most southerly point in SOUTH EAST ASIA.......thats on sentosa in Singapore (not so special)
The most easterly point in AUSTRLIA - Mount Warning (imaginativly named by captain cook because it served as a, well, as a warning).
The steepest road in THE WORLD - in Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND
Is this a lame duck? 
Of course, they can get dubious - I went to a national park in Jervis Bay, NSW which claimed to have the beach with the WHITEST SAND in THE WORLD. Also, Boracay Island in the Philippines which is self proclaimed to be the BEST BEACH in the WORLD. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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La Paz, Bolivia calls itself the highest capital city in the world.
It is close to Lake Titicaca, which is the highest lake in the world.
Close on the Peruvian side of the border is the highest railroad in the world. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:15 am Post subject: |
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As a matter of fact...
Winnipeg is the sunniest city in the world 
(and freezing as heck when it is so in winter) |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| baldrick wrote: |
| The most easterly point in AUSTRLIA - Mount Warning (imaginativly named by captain cook because it served as a, well, as a warning). |
hate to be a know-it-all but you are wrong..
I went to school in murwillumbah, maybe 20 mins drive east from Mt. Warning and I was east of that, so that should put me in the ocean, right??? 
The most easterly point is actually Cape Byron at byron bay..
Mt. Warning gets to see the sun first but because it is over 1000 metres high it sees it before Byron... |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Highest mountains in both the ROK and Japan. (Yep, big deal.) Hallasan and Fuji.
Deepest lake in the world - Baikal, Siberia. (Holds almost 20% of the world's freshwater.)
Most westerly part of Canada - Queen Charlotte Islands. (I wasn't at the most westerly point though. I was on the east side of the island.) |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:17 am Post subject: |
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The tallest mountain in Holland Zuid-Limburg (a bit more than 110 metres above sea level). Whew, what a climb(almost had to take my mountain bike out of 15'th gear  |
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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The worst beers in the world are O.B. and (S)Hite; Cass is a close second.  |
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Han Seoul-o
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Location: in the moment
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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cape spear, NL - the most easterly point in north america
sudbury, ON - the biggest damn nickel you'd never want to spend
Dec. 17, 2005 - the drunkest i've been in quite some time |
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baldrick
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: Location, Location
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
| baldrick wrote: |
| The most easterly point in AUSTRLIA - Mount Warning (imaginativly named by captain cook because it served as a, well, as a warning). |
hate to be a know-it-all but you are wrong..
I went to school in murwillumbah, maybe 20 mins drive east from Mt. Warning and I was east of that, so that should put me in the ocean, right???
The most easterly point is actually Cape Byron at byron bay..
Mt. Warning gets to see the sun first but because it is over 1000 metres high it sees it before Byron... |
Right right! Now I remember. The top of Mt Warning is the first place to RECEIVE LIGHT in AUSTRALIA. Try and beat that one! Of course thinking about it now, its difficult for a mountain to be a 'most easterly point'. Feel free to abuse me. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| mishlert wrote: |
| The worst beers in the world are O.B. and (S)Hite; Cass is a close second. |
I'll go with "Taiwan" beer or almost any beer in Taiwan. I thought some of the Thai ones were nasty too. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| mishlert wrote: |
| The worst beers in the world are O.B. and (S)Hite; Cass is a close second. |
Agreed. Dreadful shower. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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The most accurate time in the World can be found in London (supposedly, anyway).
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