But What About the West and East Lines?

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: One Comment, a Bit Prematurely Under a Long Video · New blog on the kid: Where Are the Four Corners on a Globe? · But What About the West and East Lines?

So, South line, from Cape Horn to Hobart, is concave. North line from Point Barrow to Anadyr is convex, but what's above it is little peopled.

What about the West line from Cape Horn to Point Barrow or the East line from Anadyr to Hobart?

SW Cape Horn
55°58′48″S 67°17′21″W
NW Point Barrow
71°23′20″N 156°28′45″W

SW Cape Horn
-3359′N 4037'W
NW Point Barrow
4283′N 9389′W

13°31'40"S 97°1'W, sea, W of Lima, NE of Hanga Roa

7°42'N 111°53'W, sea, W of Nicaragua, S of California la Baja

39°32'30"N 134°11'W, sea, clearly offshore W of San Francisco, like the distance from San Francisco to into Utah.

60°46'N 149°3'W, land, not far from Anchorage

NE Anadyr (town)
64°44′N 177°31′E
SE Hobart
42°53′S 147°19′30″E

NE Anadyr (town)
3884′N 10651′E
SE Hobart
-2573′N 8839.5'E

55°45'55"N 175°0'2.5"E in Behring's Sea, N of Attu Station
46°47'50"N 172°29'5"E North Pacific / Behring's Sea, as far East of Sea of Okotsk as the breadth of it

19°53'35"N 164°56'12.5"E ESE of Tokyo, very far, triangle with Taiwan, close to Wake Island

15°58'45"S 154°52'22.5"E Coral Sea, if Queensland is a triangle, this is a point completing it to a rectangle, it's South of both Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, NW of New Caledonia.
24°56'50"S 152°21'25"E N by E of Brisbane, very close.
33°'55"S 149°50'27.5E Running Stream, New South Wales.

The Cities of Sydney, Brisbane in Australia, and obviously Wellington in New Zealand are outside the straight line. As well as Noumea.

How far outside this line is Sydney? Actually, as it's on a straight line from Hobart to Brisbane, and Brisbane is close to the East line, not much at all.

I think I have made my point. The four corners are a real thing. New Caledonia and New Zealand are Island worlds or "earthseas" as one might put it, in reference to Ursula K. LeGuin. Anything except such earthseas and smaller ones, is either within the four lines, close to them, or within a curve sticking fairly close to them. The concave line between the NW and NE corners is not a half circle, it's an arc probably flatter than a quarter circle. The West line is as neat as the South line except parts of Alaska fall outside. The East line is as neat, except that parts of Australia fall very slightly outside. A corner doesn't become a non-corner just because one of the two lines at an angle curves slightly outward. Moses had no human means to know this, apart from, and probably this is the case, a tradition from before the Flood, when the world probably was a rectangle on a globe, and when the four rivers probably did flow (unhindered by modern mountain ranges, Mediterraneans or Atlantics) from close to the Holy land to places close to Cape Horn, Point Barrow, Anadyr and Hobart. Then the Flood severely broke this up and also ousted some to now the South Pole.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Our Lady of Guadalupe
12.XII.2024

PS, two more things. Here, I did not show all the intermediate steps. And it's actually 10 AM, I did not complete this at 5:30, I just put the publication back to have the references to the feast on top./HGL