Looking Out At Sea

[TomK]

When you're standing on the seashore in Hawaii, what's first landfall beyond the horizon? Click on the link, and the map and see (yes, Big Island is a little small but you get the general idea).  Most surprising for me was that sometimes the first land in a line from our shore is Antarctica.

http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-...g-edition/

Thank you so much for that! I had no idea that one line of sight from Hawaii includes Pakistan, another two Gabon, and Iran. Norway and Finland were a little surprising as well but given that's over the Arctic it's not too surprising. The Antarctic isn't too much of a surprise to me, but the east coast of Australia was!