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    Re: Mecca
    From: Dan Allen
    Date: 2000 Aug 25, 10:58 AM

    http://www.csfnet.org/501_99/501w/sols193.html
    
    is a hard to read TeX file (not the HTML that the file suffix indicates).
    
    It is called "Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics".
    
    This particular file (Volume IV, Number 1 from Summer of 1993) turned up when
    I did a search using Google.  It has some interesting information about the
    distance to Mecca problem, along with a host of other navigation related
    things relating to the spherical/elliptical nature of the earth.
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From  Navigation Mailing List
    [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of R.H. van Gent
    Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:46 PM
    To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
    Subject: Mecca
    
    
    Dear all,
    
    I hope that my query will not be too much out of place on this list but
    I would be most grateful if anyone could help me on this matter.
    
    As most list members will know the Kabah of Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
    represents the geographical centre of the Islamic world and its exact
    position with respect to Greenwich would seem to be exactly known. I
    know that up to fairly recent times this was not so due to the fact that
    the city of Mecca was (and still is) forbidden territory for
    non-Muslims, making it virtually impossible for European surveyors to
    determine its position with any exactitude.
    
    Modern encyclopaedias, atlases and internet gazetteers all give its
    position as 21 degree 27 minutes North and 39 degree 49 minutes East of
    Greenwich but do not specify for which part of Mecca this refers to. Can
    anyone on this list quote more precise figures for the geographical
    position of the Kabah of Mecca, preferably with a reference, or direct
    me to sources that can provide me with this information?
    
    Thanks in advance.
    
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