"Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:51:04 -0500, "Jim Carter"
wrote:


"NOYB" wrote in message
link.net...
"The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan."

http://www.jayp.net/trivia/geo01.htm

From that same page:
The coastline of Alaska is longer than the entire coastline of the
lower-forty-eight states of the United States. Source: "Isaac Asimov's
Book of
Facts"




This is what I copied from "Alaska Facts"


At 656,425 square miles, Alaska is the largest state, twice the size of
Texas, and one fifth the size of the entire United States. 570,374 square
miles of Alaska are land areas and 86,051 square miles of Alaska are
covered
by water. North to South, Alaska is 1,400 miles long. East to West, it
is
2,700 miles wide.

Alaska has the longest general coastline of any state. The Alaskan
coastline
extends for 6,640 miles, a distance greater than that of all the other
states' coastlines combined. Including islands, Alaska has 33,904 miles of
shoreline. The estimated tidal shoreline, including islands, inlets sounds
and bays, is 47,300 miles.


Commodore Joe Redcloud

I saw that too. What happens when two "facts" don't agree? Toss a coin?

"NOYB" wrote ...

"The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan."

http://www.jayp.net/trivia/geo01.htm


Quoting the same source...

"West Virginia is the only state in the Union without a natural lake."

"The state of Maryland has no natural lakes."