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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
[log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027
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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
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