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canyonwalker

Not Getting Up at Dawn

Jun 19, 2021 05:35

Maine Week Travelog #10
Acadia National Park - Wednesday, 16 Jun 2021, 10pm.

On many lists of things to do at Acadia National Park you'll find "Watch the sunrise atop Cadillac Mountain." Cadillac, the park's tallest mountain, is said to be where the sun first rises on the United States. Watching sunrises there is so popular the Park Service has ( Read more... )

maine, acadia national park, taking it easy, geography

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some_other_dave June 19 2021, 18:14:34 UTC

Trivia: The easternmost point--by longitude--in the US is actually in Alaska!! Some of the Aleutian islands go past 180 degrees west.

Also, not only is Puerto Rico further east than anything on the continent, but the US Virgin Islands are even further east. (And that isn't counting the US Pacific possessions that are past 180 degrees west.)

canyonwalker June 20 2021, 00:37:43 UTC

Good catch on the Virgin Islands. I've been to both PR and USVI, but PR was what came to mind when I wrote this blog. A quick web search turns up that Point Udall on St. Croix is the easternmost point of the US (not counting the so-far-west-they're-east MAXINT wraparounds you noted) and has a sundial monument marking that fact. I've been to St. Thomas and St. John, including all the way to the eastern tip of St. John, which is just slightly less east than Point Udall. The eastern tip of St. John, which I've been to, is slightly less east than Point Udall on St. Croix, which I have not been to.