What's the easternmost place in Asia?
On my current trip (like my previous) I've been in Europe and crossed the Bosphorous to Asia and proceeded further east (currently Tbilisi, Georgia).
At some point I'd like to move even further east, ideally all the way across Russia to Japan.
This (plus some talk in the travel chat room, "You Are Here") got me thinking, how east can I go in Asia? Would it be some point on one of the main islands of Japan? Some smaller Japanese island? Or somewhere else that I totally failed to think of?
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If you are only talking about the non-Russian part of Asia, then the answer would be Minami Torishima which located in 24°16?59?N 153°59?11?E It's very near to Iwo Jima and has a alias "Marcus Island".
In the map below Minami Torishima is marked with "A". You can compare it with the red line, which is actually the easternmost area of Indonesia.
The photo of the island.Notice the unique triangular shape.
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Kamchatka Peninsula! Full of bears, salmon, mountains, and all kinds of other cool stuff =)
Answer 3
Tongue-in-cheek answer:
The easternmost place in Asia is where the Russian Far East touches the 180° meridian. It’s actually a line of over 400 km (estimated by grabbing coordinates from the southern coast to the northern coast and taking the difference in latitude) which also happens to form part of the easternmost land on Earth.
Just a step away is (are) the westernmost point(s) of Asia at 179.999…° W. So you can have the distinction of standing on the westernmost and easternmost points of a continent at the same time.
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