Our Extremes & Superlatives

Last Updated: April 2017

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CONTENT

A personal collection of interesting places we've been or things we've seen ... compass locations, firsts, highest, deepest, longest, largest and oldest.

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At the MOST SOUTHERLY LOCATION on MAINLAND CANADA
Point Pelee, Leamington, Ontario

The MOST WESTERLY BORDER CROSSING & Community in CANADA

Beaver Creek, Yukon

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The HIGHEST ELEVATION HIKED To

6000', Mount Goldensides, Tombstone TP, Dempster Highway, YT, CANADA

Crossed the WORLD'S MOST NORTHERLY INTERNATIONAL BORDER

Poker Creek, between Yukon, CANADA and Alaska, USA

DEEPEST UNDERGROUND LOCATION VISITED
100 metres bsl, Te Ananui Caves, Cavendish, NEW ZEALAND

DEEPEST OPEN WATER DIVE

105' bsl, Columbia Deep, Cozumel Reef, MEXICO

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One of the WORLD'S MOST INTERESTING DIVE LOCATIONS

Bay of Pigs, CUBA

FOUR CORNERS: Standing in 4 USA States AT ONCE 

New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah

LONGEST ROAD TRIP UNDERTAKEN 

28750 kms, 133 days, 2005 North America

The MOST SOUTHERLY LOCATION in the CONTIGUOUS  USA 

Key West, Florida

The MOST SOUTHERLY LOCATION on Mainland EUROPE 

Cabo de Sao Vicente, PORTUGAL

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The MOST EASTERLY LOCATION in NORTH AMERICA

Cape Spears, Newfoundland and Labrador, CANADA

The MOST NORTHERLY LOCATION DRIVEN TO 

Inuvik, NWT, CANADA

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The MOST NORTHEASTERN LOCATION that can be DRIVEN to in NORTH AMERICA 

North West River, Labrador, CANADA

Paddled Through the DEEPEST CANYON in CANADA

1200 metres, First Canyon, Nahanni River, NWT

Paddled on the WORLD'S LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE

Lake Superior, Ontario, CANADA

Our LONGEST CANOE TRIP

608 kms, Thirty-Mile / Yukon Rivers, YT, CANADA

The WORLD'S FIRST UNESCO SITE

Nahanni River, North West Territories, CANADA

CANADA'S LARGEST TUFA MOUNDS 
and 
the WORLD'S LARGEST TUFA MOUNDS NORTH of LATITUDE 60 DEGREES

Nahanni River, North West Territories, CANADA

Visited the OLDEST CITY in EUROPE

8th Century, Chur, SWITZERLAND

Visited the LARGEST PALACE in the WORLD

Palais de Versailles, Paris, FRANCE

Visited the OLDEST CITY in NORTH AMERICA

St. John's, NL, CANADA

Visited the OLDEST CITY in the WESTERN HEMISPHERE 

c. 1496, Santo Domingo, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

The MOST SOUTHERLY WORLD LOCATION Visited

Lat. 46 40 31.39 Long. 169 00 20.34 - Slope Point, South Island, NEW ZEALAND

The MOST NORTHERLY WORLD LOCATION Visited

Lat. 69d 26m 34s Long. 133d 01m 52s - Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, CANADA

The MOST WESTERLY POINT Driven To in NORTH AMERICA

Lat. 59.801 Long. 151.840 - near Anchor Point, Alaska, USA

STEEPEST GRADE DRIVEN

20%  Stikine River Canyon, Telegraph Creek Road, BC, CANADA

OLDEST ENTITY SEEN & TOUCHED

An 18 million year old Petrified Forest, Tuma Toka, NEW ZEALAND

MOST NOTORIOUS HOME Visited

Manual Noriega's, Playa Blanca, PANAMA

LARGEST SEA CAVE in the WORLD

Poor Knights Islands, NEW ZEALAND

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