Friday, February 24, 2012

What part of the world is directly on the other side of Salt Lake City, Utah?

I am trying to figure out what would be the fartherst city to visit from Salt Lake City, Utah. I am guessing it is something in the Middle East.What part of the world is directly on the other side of Salt Lake City, Utah?
You need to be 180 degrees from salt lake city

The latitude and longitud of the Salt Lake City Airport is 40 47 18/111 58 38 W

We can clean that up to a more workable

41 N/112 W

If we stay on the latitude parallel then all we gotta do is go east %26gt;subtract 180 from 112 = 68 E degrees

Then find where in the world 42N/68E is

Lisbon is on about the same latitude

So figure it's approx 60 degrees east of Lisbon@ 60 minutes to a degree and 1 minute = i nautical mile

Have fun with the math

%26lt;%26lt;Update

Athens Greece is basically 42N/23 E

Moscow Russia is 55N/37 E

Kabul Afghanistan is 35N/69 E

Getting closerWhat part of the world is directly on the other side of Salt Lake City, Utah?
According to this site, the Antipode of Salt Lake City is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

http://www.antipodemap.com/



According to this website, http://map.talleye.com/bighole.php you end up at these coordinates, 40掳45鈥?0鈥砈, 068掳06鈥?5鈥矱 which is in the exact same spot as the previous map.



Since that location is in the middle of the ocean, approx half way in between Australia and South Africa. The two cities that show up closest to that location is Perth, Australia and Durban, South Africa.

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