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Centre of European Continent & 150th [20-Feb-11] At the back end of 2010, Wojciech Czombik went on a road trip taking in the Centre of the European Continent and also marked the milestone of his 150th visit 1996 - 2011: the project is 15 years old [18-Feb-11] February 20, 2011 marks the 15 year anniversary of the start of the Degree Confluence Project. In 1996 Alex Jarrett and Peter Cline made the first visit, to 43°N 72°W in New Hampshire. Fifteen years later, over 11,000 visitors have submitted over 91,000 photographs for over 11,000 confluence visits in 183 countries. DCP New milestone reached [11-Feb-11] Sergio Zerega and his team have complete a new DCP milestones of 6000 successful primary confluences. The quest begins at 29S 62W jordan is complete [22-Nov-10] A visit to confluence 32N 39E which is only 25 km from a tri-border point between Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi-Arabia completes the successfully visited confluences of Jordan. spontaneous road trip [21-Oct-10] apparently bored one weekend, Rainer Mautz decided on the spur of the moment to drive 500km to start a brief series at 46N-06E 6500 unique confluences [13-Oct-10] The visit to 33N 4W in Morocco was the 6500th unique successful visit posted (primary + secondary confluences included). european ancestor hunt [06-Oct-10] Woody Harrell and his wife Cynthia recently came to Europe to visit his Uncle's grave at Omaha beach in Normandy. The first visit was at 51N-02E... Southwest Russia confluence trip [26-Sep-10] Aleksandr Mashnikov visited 8 new confluences in the south of European Russia. Start here. Russia gets the milestone of 700 successful visits. 3rd China trip this summer [01-Sep-10] Rainer Mautz spent some time in the mountains of China to visit a few confluences. Start here. The other trips are Eric's and Targ's. long overdue 2nd time visits [22-Aug-10] Recently it came to Gordon Spence's attention (European Coordinator) that there were some points he hadn't been to in nearly 9 years. It starts at 52N-02W filling a "nagging hole" [05-Aug-10] Targ Parsons and Ah Feng filled a "nagging hole" in Targ's confluence map in China. It all starts here. northern germany - summer road trip [01-Aug-10] Paul Goetti and his wife Peggi Goetti took a 5 confluence road trip through Germany for their summer holidays. It all starts at 50N-10E. new stories from China [31-Jul-10] E et al. again spent some time in China's mountains visiting 8 unvisited confluences. Start here. corpus christi road trip [17-Jul-10] Florian Schindler made good use of the recent public holiday, a 9 point road trip, starting with 49N-07E and finishing 8 points later with 49N-01W. new south wales is complete [27-Apr-10] On a recent family holiday, Peter Schultz made a succesful visit to 32S-142E. This completes the state of New South Wales sierra leone is country 182 [23-Apr-10] After remaining a "white spot" for a long time, Sierra Leone received two independent confluence visits within six months, see 8N 12W and 9N 12W. 50N: halfway across Canada [16-Feb-10] An interesting visit to 50N 116W, the last unvisited confluence along 50 degrees North in British Columbia, has completed a line of confluence visits half way across Canada. From 50N 127W on the west coast of Vancouver Island to 50N 91W in Ontario is just over 2500 kilometers. Google Maps suggests you can drive 3300KM from 50N 127W to 50N 91W in less than 2 days. From 50N 91W there is over 2400KM to the most easterly land-based 50N confluence in Canada, 50N 57W. risky confluence [12-Feb-10] Rainer Mautz has faced a dangerous situation when he was confluencing in Central America. Adventure begins at 19N 98W confluencing around parallel 48s [31-Jan-10] Sergio Zerega and his team have completed a sequence of 12 confluences, 11 of them unvisited so far, mostly on parallel 48S. The quest begins at 45S 69W rare photos recovered! [03-Dec-09] On his big bicycle trip to China/Central Asia in 2006 Rainer Mautz experienced a memory card failure. Recently he was able to recover the photos for: 45N 81E, 45N 82E, 46N 81E, 46N 80E, 43N 77E. Older news... |