Mapman[TM] contest.As JS's Mapman, I create the maps you see in all of our issues. In the photo above, I'm sightseeing in a Scandinavian port of call. It was the final destination of a recent trip. The map shows all the places I visited. If you correctly answer the following questions, find my final destination, and draw a map of the country to which it belongs, you could win our GeoSkills contest! The grand-prize winner will receive a $500 U.S. Savings Bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. and a Franklin[R] Electronic Merriam-Webster's[R] Dictionary. Each of twenty-five runners-up will win an electronic dictionary Noun 1. electronic dictionary - a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically machine readable dictionary, MRD lexical database - a database of information about words and a Mapman T-shirt. Good luck! 1. I left Belfast on a fishing boat. Belfast is a port city in which part of the United Kingdom? 2. Then I traveled north for about 530 miles to an archipelago (group of islands) located at 62[degrees]N, 6[degrees]W. Which country controls these islands? 3. Next, I chartered a plane to Europe's northernmost capital city. What is the city? 4. I boarded a Coast Guard icebreaker icebreaker, ship of special hull design and wide beam, with relatively flat bottom, designed to force its way through ice. When the icebreaker charges into the ice at full speed, its sharply inclined bow, meeting the edge of the ice, rises upon it, and the weight of that steamed along the Arctic Circle Arctic Circle, imaginary circle on the surface of the earth at 66 1-2°N latitude, i.e., 23 1-2° south of the North Pole. It marks the northernmost point at which the sun can be seen at the winter solstice (about Dec. . Which body of water is located at the point where the Arctic Circle crosses the Prime Meridian prime meridian, meridian that is designated zero degree (0°) longitude, from which all other longitudes are measured. By international convention, it passes through the original site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England; for this reason, it is sometimes ? 5. When I arrived in Bergen, Norway, I set foot in Scandinavia. What type of landmass land·mass n. A large unbroken area of land. landmass Noun a large continuous area of land landmass does Scandinavia form? 6. I flew to a capital city located at 60[degrees]N, 25[degrees]E. What is the name of this city? 7. Then I sailed across the Baltic Sea to Copenhagen, Denmark. In which direction did I travel? 8. I arrived at my final destination at 58[degrees]N, 12[degrees]E---one of Scandinavia's largest port cities. Can you name the city an9d the country? |
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