CONTINENT       Longitude       Latitude
Dear Mapsters,

See what Wangyal has come up with in this forwarded memo below,  and
attachment! Now where is that rummy reader when I need him?

Enjoy! Alice

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

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                    Tsering
                    Wangyal Shawa        To:     [log in to unmask]
                    <shawatw@Princ       cc:
                    eton.EDU>            Subject:     Re: geographical center of the
                                          continents
                    01/30/2002
                    05:08 PM






Alice,

>I have a reader who is driving me nuts looking for the exact geographical
>center for each of the continents.
>

I have attached a file showing the centroid of each continent (in latitude
and longitude...minus in longitude means west and minus in latitude means
south). Visually it may not look center of the continent but if each
continent is cut out and lay down on a plain surface and then these
centroid points should be center of that continent. Mathematically these
points should be the center of each continent however, visually they may
not look center. I extracted the information using GIS software.

Hope this info is what that person is looking for.

Thanks.
-Wangyal
Tsering Wangyal Shawa
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Head, Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Geosciences and Map Library
Guyot Hall, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-6804
Fax: (609) 258-4607
www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis(See attached file: centroid_centinental.xls)


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Africa  13.02604        1.35861
Antarctica      0.00000 -75.25097
Asia    103.03361       39.50041
Australia       133.26637       -26.37917
Europe  22.24402        58.33041
North America   -111.87554      39.60111
Oceania 170.39122       -43.58819
South America   -62.19862       -21.29875