Conquercise

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Diogenes Sep 2023 8:21pm, 8 Sep 2023 81,269 posts	0 Diogenes Prawn cocktails all round
Sharkie Sep 2023 6:34pm, 11 Sep 2023 21,879 posts	0 Sharkie Can someone explain, please, to a bear of very little brain (me) why the square miles on the map are, in fact, oblongs. Is it something to do with latitude and longitude? Or what?
NDWDave Sep 2023 6:38pm, 11 Sep 2023 18,574 posts	0 NDWDave Can someone explain, please, to a bear of very little brain (me) why the square miles on the map are, in fact, oblongs. Is it something to do with latitude and longitude? Or what? Yep. If you have ever played near the equator they are almost square whereas in ITG land, they are like vertical postboxes. You get much better value for your run the further from the equator. A very slow lap of the north Pole would get you thousands
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Sharkie Sep 2023 6:40pm, 11 Sep 2023 21,880 posts	0 Sharkie Thanks Dave! Am off for a slow stroll round the North Pole. Probably not. Am stuck in central London wiv me oblongs. That's ok.
Flatlander Sep 2023 7:07pm, 11 Sep 2023 2,900 posts	0 Flatlander [Goes off to check the Conquercise map for the North Pole ] Not surprisingly, no one has claimed any North Pole zones! In my trip to the Far Far North, I didn't get as far as the North Pole but I did get to the North Cape. As NDWDave wrote, even at the NC there are lots of closely bunched zones - it's a shame that my trip was 30 years ago, before Conquercise, otherwise I'd have owned literally thousands of zones.
AndyS Sep 2023 7:28pm, 11 Sep 2023 2,327 posts	0 AndyS We visited the Nordkapp in December 2014, so I might have bagged a few of them off you FL This was taken around Noon...
Flatlander Sep 2023 9:23pm, 11 Sep 2023 2,901 posts	0 Flatlander AndyS Nice photo in 24 hours darkness. I was at Nordkapp at the opposite end of the year, 1st June, in 24 hours daylight. I got nice photos in daylight of Barn av jorden as well as the globe . As you can see, after leaving there was snow on 3rd June. Any Conquercise zones would have been well earned!
Cerrertonia Sep 2023 10:44pm, 11 Sep 2023 19,615 posts	0 Cerrertonia I got a few zones in svalbard, but you're not really allowed out of town without a gun, and obviously travel via icebreaker, dogsled or snowmobile don't count.
ITG 🇮🇸 Sep 2023 8:36am, 12 Sep 2023 16,927 posts	0 ITG 🇮🇸 Same in parts of Greenland, Cerretonia. I am at much higher risk from myself and a gun than a bear. Bear would probably grab the gun and shoot me before I worked out what to do with it. NDWDave it only helps if we go East-West-East; not North-South-North.