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[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Not long ago, we were having a conversation as to whether Boston or Manchester was more northern. Now, apart from the fact that Boston is in Lincolnshire, and thus clearly south of Manchester, I was confused by this.

I still am confused by this, and as I am a bear of very little brain, y'all will have to help.

According to Benedict's globe, and my Peters projection, and I can't find a handy Mercator projection, but I'm sure it's not that much different, according to those sources, the UK is north of all of the US except Alaska.

Is this wrong? Is there some other definition of north which I'm not taking into account?

Comments

[olithered.livejournal.com]

You are indeed utterly correct. I was probably confused by the climate...

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

it wasn't your confusion that was confusing me so much as the way that wehn people went off ot check, they seemed to come back saying that boston, MA, is indeed north of Manchester. I thought maybe they meant in relative terms, as a proportion of the coutnry, or something.