What is the most easterly go club in Europe?

Phelan · **#21**

RBerenguel wrote:

(unless there is a club in the Azores)

No club in Azores that I know of. The farthest I know of is a player in Madeira.

Edit: Also, yes, there is a confirmed club in Lisbon.

Ellyster · **#22**

Well, Spain has the Canary Islands, and they have Go clubs (http://go-fio.es/) so this might be the southest.... and probably also the westest of the European Union (since there is no go club in Azores Islands).

But if we take, only mainland Europe... probably the westest is some Portugese one, and the southest should be an Andalusian one, in Malaga (http://gomalaga.es/), or mine in Granada (https://sites.google.com/site/clubtsuke/).

RBerenguel · **#23**

Ellyster wrote:

Well, Spain has the Canary Islands, and they have Go clubs (http://go-fio.es/) so this might be the southest.... and probably also the westest of the European Union (since there is no go club in Azores Islands).
(https://sites.google.com/site/clubtsuke/).

I didn't check coordinates, but Iceland is GMT-1 and Canary Islands is GMT, Reykjavik has a Go club, too (igo.is IIRC) which should be Easternmost (not yet in the EU, though)

jts · **#24**

Remember, if you're counting the political unit "Europe" rather than the geographic area "Europe," France has departments all over the world, so I don't think the Canary Islands have a chance however you slice the question.

Ellyster · **#25**

RBerenguel wrote:

Ellyster wrote:

Well, Spain has the Canary Islands, and they have Go clubs (http://go-fio.es/) so this might be the southest.... and probably also the westest of the European Union (since there is no go club in Azores Islands).
(https://sites.google.com/site/clubtsuke/).

I didn't check coordinates, but Iceland is GMT-1 and Canary Islands is GMT, Reykjavik has a Go club, too (igo.is IIRC) which should be Easternmost (not yet in the EU, though)

Don't trust the GTM... because in Spain we are not in the one that should (traditions vs geography), we should be GTM and Canary Island should be GTM-1. May be close, we should look for the coordinates.

RBerenguel wrote:

Remember, if you're counting the political unit "Europe" rather than the geographic area "Europe," France has departments all over the world, so I don't think the Canary Islands have a chance however you slice the question.

Yeah, you are right, I wasn't counting overseas colonies, my count was only Europe + Islands... I don't know if we can count the Canary Islands as in geographic area "Europe", since we are counting with Iceland that is even further away from mainland (and closer to Greenland) XD

We should define the maximun distancy valid.

RBerenguel · **#26**

Ellyster wrote:

RBerenguel wrote:

I didn't check coordinates, but Iceland is GMT-1 and Canary Islands is GMT, Reykjavik has a Go club, too (igo.is IIRC) which should be Easternmost (not yet in the EU, though)

Don't trust the GTM... because in Spain we are not in the one that should (traditions vs geography), we should be GTM and Canary Island should be GTM-1. May be close, we should look for the coordinates.

Well, Reykjavik is 5º ahead of Tenerife, so it is westmost.

Ellyster wrote:

Yeah, you are right, I wasn't counting overseas colonies, my count was only Europe + Islands... I don't know if we can count the Canary Islands as in geographic area "Europe", since we are counting with Iceland that is even further away from mainland (and closer to Greenland) XD

We should define the maximun distancy valid.

Iceland shares territory among European and American tectonic plates (they split in Þingvellir,) but Wikipedia does not help with where the Canary Icelands belong in their main article, but this plate map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg shows that the Islands are in the African plate. Here's a zoom of the Iceland area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge

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