GEOGRAPHICAL CURIOSITIES.
York is usually thought of .is being directly west from fomloiu It is however, despite its far more rigorou climate, fIOO miles nearer the Equator than is the British capital. The ble;.k| coast of Labrador is directly west o. j London. The same line passes the, southern part of Hudson Bay and Winnipeg; on the other side of tlie| continent it touches the southein extremity of Alaska, ami continues! through the centre of llu> Isthmus of| Kamchatka, and Siberia, and Kuwmi tni Momlmnr. I It is astonishing, too. to reflect o',i the fact that Montreal, with its winter* of great severity, is 35(1 miles nearer the Equator than is f/indon. 3lontie.il. indeed, is oil the same degree of latitude as Yeniee. Another illustration ot the unexpected* in contrasts is found in a comparison 1 of St. John's, Newfoundland, with 1 ari*. ' Paris has a winter of comparative lniW-ne-s, while St. John's is a region of bit--1 ter eold and fogs with dviltmg icehcrj?--alo-,12 its coast. Yet St. Johns is 1U« ' mile's nearer the Equator.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 281, 21 November 1908, Page 3
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176GEOGRAPHICAL CURIOSITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 281, 21 November 1908, Page 3
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