Talk:Geographical records

Scope

Interesting article! What should we include? Northernmost, southernmost, easternmost, westernmost, highest and lowest points of continents, places where weather records have taken place, biggest, longest, highest bodies of water, most populous cities, highest buildings, longest highways, non-stop flights and train rides? What else?

Another thing, we should probably just include global, hemisphere and continental records and not go down to country-level. As there are about 200 countries in the world, the article would otherwise become ridiculously long. ϒpsilon (talk) 08:03, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Also, the Marianas Trench, which contains the lowest oceanic elevation in the world. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:26, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

And we could perhaps also add a couple of (easily accessible) places exactly on, or very near, the Equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic Circles (OK, there aren't really any on the latter), the Greenwich meridian and the International Date Line. --ϒpsilon (talk) 10:40, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

That's an interesting idea. Ilhéu das Rolas and Macapá are on the equator, and I believe Quito is very close to it. —Granger (talk · contribs) 13:47, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I saw this on the list of article requests, and it seemed like a good travel-related one. However, let's make sure all of these are reachable: the problem with the Challenger Deep is that it's not going to be very useful to traveler, unless they happen to have a submarine and a diving suit. Selfie City (talk) 14:17, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Actually, maybe we should rename the article "Extreme points and geographical records" or something similar. ϒpsilon (talk) 17:53, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps just "geographical records"? Selfie City (talk) 17:56, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Sounds good. ϒpsilon (talk) 18:00, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Ps. I think a list of records of man-made things (longest bridge, highest building, highest located city, highest railway etc.) could also make an interesting travel topic. Perhaps a separate article? ϒpsilon (talk) 18:05, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘Already created it, and made Extreme points a disambiguation page. Selfie City (talk) 18:11, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

ϒpsilon, Developmental records is where the information can go. I'll start the article. Selfie City (talk) 18:16, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Created outline for it now, along with a page called Records. Selfie City (talk) 18:33, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

What about "southernmost school", "northernmost metro stop" and so on?

I think it might also be relatively interesting to have links for the northernmost or southernmost example of certain things. For example the most northerly point reachable by scheduled passenger train, the most southerly school and so on. That would of course require some more research and updating, but Auntie Wi is already doing some of the heavy lifting... Hobbitschuster (talk) 19:23, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Hobbitschuster, I think the place for that would be Developmental records. Selfie City (talk) 19:25, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

The southernmost point of Asia

I'm a bit confused on that one. I have always thought that the Cocos (Keeling) Islands was the southernmost point of Asia, because it is geographically in Asia and Wikipedia and Commons also categorizes the islands under Asia. That's a bit like saying French Polynesia is in Europe because it is administered by France, or American Samoa is in North America because it's administered by the US. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 01:34, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Also, if we were to assume that the islands are part of Oceania, then the description for Oceania would be conflicting. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 01:36, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

I've adjusted it. It's also worth noting that the islands were a part of Singapore, which is unambiguously in Asia, before they were transferred to Australia and if we were to use the previous rationale, it would also mean that calling the Northern Mariana Islands a part of North America. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 23:08, 31 March 2022 (UTC)