<snip> > It is one heck of a long way and very deceiving on a Mercator > projection map. > Mercator's projection makes distances at high latitudes look much greater than they are. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html