Where are the four corners of the earth?

Question

Am assuming that the North and South Pole are the north and south corners. East and West?

Answer 1

for corners of the earth is 1=2000 miles north west of alaska 2=5000 miles north east of siberia 3=8500 miles soth west of chile 4=9200 miles south east of new zealand

Answer 2

If you go with the north and south poles as being two points, then it would stand to reason that the other two are the points where the equator meets 0º longitude (west of the Congo, in Africa, in the Atlantic), and where the equator meets 180º longitude (east of the Philippines in the Pacific).

Which makes sense, if you think about it. The equator divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres, while the 0º-180º longitude line divides the eastern and western hemispheres.

But really, the term "four corners of the earth" meant the four corners of a map of the known world back in the day.

Answer 3

The phrase 4 corners of the Earth refers to all points on Earth. The term is used in the Bible at Isiah 11 :12.

Answer 4

Theres four corners to a square, oblong, a parallel something or other. The earth is a squashed sphere. Only the ignorant spanish inquistion could tell you the four corners of their flat world. You'd have to go back a few centuries though.

Answer 5

Americans think that the four corners of the earth are Washington, Maine, Florida, and California.

Answer 6

The earth has, of course, no corners, directional or otherwise. The expression, meaning an arbitrarily large portion of the earth's surface, goes way back.

Answer 7

I dont think there is any, as the earth is round not square. seriously though how can you determine how far east or west to go? You will just go back to where you started.

Answer 8

i'd guess there aren't or for practical reasons maybe you coud call the middle of the pacific ocean the east and west corner

Answer 9

Known world in the XV Century

Answer 10

There's a corner shop at the end of my street, that must be one, any-one else know the other three.