Where do you think they might be? Geographically I would nominate the Western tip of Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, the tip of New Zealand and the Nordkapp I suppose.

You do know the world isn’t flat?

Dobcross, Derker, Diggle & Delph?

Bram Stoker’s Carfax.

Thinking of quart-face, and inversion of the four corners.

It must be flat. My atlas is flat, my screen with google earth on it is flat. The world must have a fair few folds though, just like my OS maps do..

Of course it’s flat. If it was round, people would fall off the bottom.

You do know the world isn’t flat?

You do know what metaphors are don’t you?

Wasn’t that the model before the Meta 5?

when i was at school they said it was roundish as well have we moved on from that then?

Well molgrips claims that he is only speaking metaphorically.

And yet despite that, he apparently wants to know where the four corners actually are 😕

My eye is spherical and yet I can see out of the corner of it.

So a round earth can have loads of corners. 4 that spring to mind are

The corner of Wimpole and Wigmore Street (sturges v Bridgman)

the corner of Catoma and Meadville street

The corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane

The red corner (opposite the blue corner)

My eye is spherical and yet I can see out of the corner of it.

What do you mean out of “the” corner of your eye…..don’t you mean out of “one” corner of your eye ? We’re talking about 4 corners here.

this isn’t the same as fork handles…is it?

Plenty of cultures represent the Earth with a square, due to the NSEWness of finding your way around.

Plenty of cultures represent the Earth with a square

Well tells us were the 4 corners are then !

The centre of the UK is Dunsop bridge, so why not start from there? Trevor in the cafe bakes great cakes.

so why not start from there?

You mean it might be variable ? It’s almost as if the world is spherical.

A square needs two orthogonal axes, and extremes at either end of those. So the two combinations of two extremes gives four corners.

So you could have say.. heat as on axis and dryness as the other. Therefore the four corners would be the hottest driest place (Sahara probably), coldest driest place (a dry valley in Antarctica), the hottest wettest place (somewhere in the Malaysian jungle maybe) and the coldest wettest place (Manchester).

Looking at the map will tell you.

They are…

The North Pole, the North Pole, the South Pole and the South Pole.