In Microsoft's Encarta 99 programme, maps module, used to examine all of the geographic values referred to in this article, the northern frontier of the State of New York, bordering with Canada with the exception of a very small area in the Northwest, is situated on 45º 00' 00'' (a boundary clearly planned on a drawing board, as with many other US States), with a few deviations of a maximum of 30'' (about 650 meters, seeing that every second of the arch is little more than 20 meters, verifiable in this programme). The southern border, in Staten Island, has a value of 40º 29' 45''.
On the other hand, the Island of Manhattan, with some 21 km along its largest diagonal, has its northern limit situated approximately at 40º 52' 40'' and its southern limit on 40º 42' 00''. The point marking on the map the area of the World Trade Center is found at exactly 40º 42' 40''. Maybe the biggest coincidence of all: according to the maps that were consulted, Shanksville, the small town south of which flight 93 crashed, is only about 2 km north of line 40º 00' 00''. We do not have information on the exact location of the crash, but it must have been very close to these 40º 00' 00''. |
