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hammerfest special visit [25-Aug-04] Hermann Grebner has visited the Meridian Column in Hammerfest, Norway. It marks the northern end of the first international project to measure the size of the Earth, in 1852. 155 countries [22-Aug-04] A visit to 42°N 44°E, in the country of Georgia, brings the total number of countries with visits to 155. australia reaches 300 visits [21-Aug-04] Doug Thompson's first confluence visit to 25°S 114°E took australia to 300 successful visits carnivorous plants in sweden [17-Aug-04] Henrik Sunden found a sundew plant while visiting 66°N 20°E tajikistan [29-Jul-04] Tajikistan is the 154th country with confluencing activity. 153 countries [28-Jul-04] Guyana now has its first visit: 4N 59W. Which makes it the 153rd country in our project. 152 countries [20-Jul-04] A visit to 2°S 30°E, the only confluence in Rwanda, brings the total number of countries with visits to 152. it is 151 now ... [14-Jul-04] With a visit to 26S 57W, the first one in Paraguay we now have 151 countries with at least one visit ! 20 percent [07-Jul-04] Based on the currently indexed confluences, 20% of the primary confluences have now been visited! 150 countries [02-Jul-04] a visit to 42°N 77°E makes Kyrgyzstan the 150th country with at least one confluence visit afghanistan [22-Jun-04] The first confluence visited in Afghanistan is located in a bomb crater...There are now 149 countries with visits. midnight sun confluence trip [21-Jun-04] The sun was up at midnight during a long trip to 66°N 16°W, one of the few remaining confluences in Iceland. bermuda [10-Jun-04] A recent visit to a confluence near Bermuda, unfortunately with no view of land, made Bermuda the 148th country with incomplete or complete confluence visits. 'epic' high altitude track [02-Jun-04] A 6-day pack-horse trip high up in Tibet led to 30N 90E. Snow storms, high altitude sickness, snow blindness...all to visit a spot where some imaginary lines meet. madagascar adventures [14-May-04] A romantic idea to visit a confluence during a honeymoon trip in Madagascar turned out to become a stunning story of a day-long disappearance, desperate car chases in the night, and even more. Don't miss reading about what happened during the search for 19°S 49°E. icelandic marathon [12-May-04] For the 64°N 14°W visit Arngrimur Magnusson and his friends hiked more than 43 km in a single day! finland complete! [08-May-04] 68°N 25°E was the last landbased confluence in Finland. The remaining points are all in the ocean, within sight of land. ant/arctic [05-May-04] A new visit to the North Pole (90°N) is the first complete one since the project was started, and a new primary visit to 70°S 170°E leaves only 1,715 left in Antarctica! walla walla confluence [23-Apr-04] Oregon's last unvisited confluence on land, the "Walla Walla" confluence (46N 118W), which is in a restricted watershed area, has been visited by city staff while on official business. saudi expeditions [21-Apr-04] Two groups, starting together with 27N 44E, later splitting up to collect lots of new Confluences each, push the number of visited Confluences in Saudi-Arabia to over 100. Older news... |