2006-07-15 14:10:40 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Good thing Geography is a science and not operated as a democracy. 7 right and 7 wrong so far.
FJS has it right, and with the most detail.
Lake of the Woods, Minnesota is the northernmost point of the contiguous USA.
Many map projections cause Maine to look further north, but that is an artifact of projecting the Earth's curved surface onto a flat map.
What US states are the furthest south, north, east and west? Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska, and Alaska. (The most distal Aleutian islands are on the other side of longitude 180).
2006-07-17 02:42:45 · answer #1 · answered by David in Kenai 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Minnesota
The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coterminous with Angle Township, is a small part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota that is the only part of the United States outside of Alaska that is north of the 49th parallel. That parallel is the northern boundary of the 48 contiguous states extending eastward from the west coast along the northern boundaries of Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and part of Minnesota to the Northwest Angle. Further east, U.S. territory does not extend that far north. Map projections sometimes create an optical illusion that Maine extends farther north than that; that illusion does not occur in maps in which parallels of latitude are straight lines. The Northwest Angle cannot be reached from the rest of the United States without traveling through Canada or crossing water—specifically, the Lake of the Woods.
2006-07-15 15:20:45 · answer #2 · answered by FJS 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Minnesota. I live in Minnesota and have actually been up to The Angle (or the Northwest Angle as the notch on top of the state that goes above the 49th parallel is called). Maine is actually south of most of northern Minnesota. The curved projection makes it look like it is so far north. The Mercator projection, which respects angles and directions (like the 49th parallel which runs east-west), correctly shows the relative latitudes of Minnesota and Maine.
2014-12-03 04:56:18 · answer #3 · answered by Team Luke 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maine
2006-07-19 08:52:38 · answer #4 · answered by purpleride 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maine
2006-07-15 18:06:57 · answer #5 · answered by CLBH 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Minnesota
2006-07-15 14:46:00 · answer #6 · answered by Dagblastit 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Minnesota
http://www.iaap.org/graphics/usa.gif
In this map, the latitude line of 45 is in both Maine and Minnesota, but Minnesota has much more land left above it than Maine.
Damn!! you beat me by 6 seconds.
2006-07-15 14:18:03 · answer #7 · answered by The Q-mann 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of Maine
2006-07-15 15:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its Minnesota. You cant look at a map, because a map is a section of a sphere that was made to be straight, which results in distortion. You have to use a globe or the latitude.
2006-07-17 21:57:08 · answer #9 · answered by Jake W 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
maine
2006-07-15 17:55:26 · answer #10 · answered by dumisani100 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋