And American Somoa is ......?
you'd never know it ..
calling there is like calling anywhere in the US.
Time wise, it's 4 hours before the West Coast, but it's the next day,
something like that.

On 7/4/2013 11:30 AM, David Beierl wrote:
> At 12:54 PM 7/4/2013, Alistair Bell wrote:
>> Most westerly, HI members.
>
> Southernmost point of Hawaii is just shy of 19� North.
> https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=18.91094,-155.681135&spn=0.002948,0.004823&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=18
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> Southernmost point of Texas is about 415 nautical miles further north.
> https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.826162,-97.385216&spn=0.179547,0.308647&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=12
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> But Key West, Florida is only 338 nautical miles north, still a
> respectable margin.
> https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.544625,-81.807461&spn=0.090723,0.154324&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=13
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> But Puerto Rico's southern point is sixty nautical miles south of
> Hawaii's.
> https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=17.926884,-66.925707&spn=0.023723,0.038581&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=15
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> And Guam is another 280 nm south of Puerto Rico.
> https://maps.google.com/maps?q=guam&hl=en&ll=13.23794,144.649086&spn=0.048543,0.077162&sll=17.929498,-66.927681&sspn=0.047446,0.077162&t=h&hnear=Guam&z=14
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> Nautical miles are easy because they're sixty per degree of latitude.
> People who favor statute miles can apply a factor of 6080/5280, or for
> kilometers use 6080/3281.  For smoots use 6080/5.5833....**
>
> **No immediate relation to Senator Smoot so far as I know.
>
> Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
> Is planning a ban on smut
> Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
> And his reverent occiput.
> Smite. Smoot, smite for Ut.,
> Grit your molars and do your dut.,
> Gird up your l--ns,
> Smite h-p and th-gh,
> We'll all be Kansas
> By and By.
>
> -- Ogden Nash, "Invocation," 1931
>
>
> Yrs,
> d
>