Soooooo......

[Alex]

So, yesterday I was on a boring conference call and was zooming around Google Maps. At one point I zoomed out and then zoomed in and noticed that on the third level in the first city markers appeared on the map.

And some of them struck me as odd. Portland is there, but not San Francisco. Houston, Dallas and San Antonio but no New Orleans. No Miami, Atlanta, etc.

Anyway, then my brain wandered and I wondered which was the most remote of those few cities honored enough to be listed at the 3rd level of Google Maps zoom.

I can now tell you the answer is Darwin, Australia, at about 2619 km from the nearest listed city of Adelaide.

The two closest cities are Tallinn, Estonia, and Helsinki, Finland, at just 84 km away from each other (with Akita and Marioka Japan within the margin of error at 90 km).

You might think this is why they shouldn't put me on boring conference calls. You'd not be entirely correct.

Me being able to show my work is why they shouldn't put me on boring conference calls.

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