<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Nick Whitelegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Nick.Whitelegg@solent.ac.uk">Nick.Whitelegg@solent.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">>All of Spain is further north than Tennessee, the US state where I live.<br>
Tennessee is on about the same >latitude as Algeria.<br>
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</div>That's another example of the "anticlockwise axis tilt" of perceptions of<br>
places versus where they actually are.<br>
<br>
I've noticed that several places in the world are tilted anticlockwise<br>
compared to where one expects them to be.<br>
<br>
To me living in the UK, the natural way of thinking suggests that<br>
Edinburgh-London-Paris are on a N-S axis. They're not, it's actually<br>
NNW-SSE - tilted anticlockwise.<br>
<br>
Likewise I imagine Paris and New York, and London-Amsterdam-Berlin-Moscow,<br>
to be on W-E axes. Again they're not, it's approx WSW-ENE in all cases, so<br>
again the axis is tilted anticlockwise.<br>
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Tennessee I'd have imagined, before I realised (some years ago) how much<br>
further south the USA is compared to where you think it is, as being about<br>
the same as southern France or northern Spain.<br>
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The much wetter climate of the USA compared to most of Spain, and<br>
certainly north Africa, plays a role in this. My one visit to SE USA was<br>
changing planes at Atlanta, GA and it was very green - comparable to the<br>
UK or France.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div>OK, so if we tilt Spain enough then Girona is in southern Spain. Cool...<br><br>