Conquercise

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NDWDave Sep 2023 10:19am, 12 Sep 2023 18,577 posts	0 NDWDave Out of curiosity, I compared 1 , 40, and 64 degrees North. I’ve not gone further north than 65ish
Cerrertonia Sep 2023 3:31pm, 12 Sep 2023 19,617 posts	0 Cerrertonia fetcheveryone.com/game-conq-zone.php?id=1064333 Longyearbyen, for comparison.
ptr_rnr Sep 2023 10:06am, 13 Sep 2023 1,676 posts	0 ptr_rnr That is fascinating, and not something i'd noticed or thought of.
Flatlander Sep 2023 2:30pm, 13 Sep 2023 2,903 posts	0 Flatlander This image of longitude shows it quite nicely See how the distances between lines of longitude become smaller the further one moves away from the equator. In the Fetch Conquercise zones, in the northern hemisphere the northern edge of each zone is shorter than its southern edge (conversely in the southern hemisphere) and an isosceles trapezoid shape is formed Because the northern edge is so imperceptibly shorter than the southern edge and the height of the zone is small (about 1.4 miles/2.22km), the trapezoid zone appears to us as a rectangle. The further north (or south) one goes, this accumulation of shorter edges leads to the much narrower zones we see nearer the poles.
fetcheveryone Sep 2023 2:50pm, 13 Sep 2023 29,583 posts	0 fetcheveryone Longyearbyen (78.23,15.65) is the furthest zone north that I can corroborate with evidence from the training log. Prior to about 2016, zone hits didn't get stored with a link to the training entry that generated them. There is a claim on a zone in Phippsøya (80.69,20.85), but I can't find a corresponding entry in the training log by its owner.
fetcheveryone Sep 2023 2:53pm, 13 Sep 2023 29,584 posts	0 fetcheveryone Furthest south is titled 'Antarctica - Discovery Deep' at (-79.16,165.56)
JCB Sep 2023 3:37pm, 13 Sep 2023 4,491 posts	0 JCB -79 is quite intense. Here’s a map of the globe (okay, only part of it), from the point of view of Antarctica: antarctica.gov.au
JCB Sep 2023 3:38pm, 13 Sep 2023 4,492 posts	0 JCB Snapshot from the webpage above.
JCB Sep 2023 3:39pm, 13 Sep 2023 4,493 posts	0 JCB
Flatlander Sep 2023 4:40pm, 13 Sep 2023 2,904 posts	0 Flatlander Nit-picking the Encyclopædia Britannica longitude image I posted above, EB's assertion that Lines of Longitude "Are halves of great circles" is not precisely correct. It would be if the Earth were a perfect sphere, but it is not. It is an oblate spheroid, bulging out a bit at the equator due to the spin/rotation of the Earth about its N-S axis "flinging" its mass outwards. The equatorial radius of the Earth is about 14 miles greater than the polar radius, depending upon which calculation is used. I'm sure this has some relevance to the sizes of Conquercise zones in different parts of the world.