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Where am I?

You know the old faithful riddle about the hunter and the bear (1 mile south, 1 mile east, 1 mile north. What colour was the bear). My question is;

where else on this planet could you go and do the same movements ( 1 mile south, 1 mile east, 1 mile north) and end up exactly where you started?

North or South pole is not acceptable as an answer; neither is "down a mineshaft" - that is not travelling South, it's falling.

First correct answer gets the points

Update:

This isn't a trick question. You or I or anyone could physically go there and do it!

You need to think carefully.Some of you are on the right lines.

Update 2:

Nik G - you have to go west if you want to backtrack!(but you're wrong)

Phil... -it's not a trick; as I said, you can physically go there and do it yourself!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    in a freeway that curves or in san francisco

  • 1 decade ago

    u go 1 mile south then 1 mile east then 1 mile north and then u just turn it around and go 1 mile south 1 mile east and 1 mile north!

  • 1 decade ago

    In the Sea. 1 mile south ,1 mile East....... the tide then takes you back 1 mile West .......and then 1 mile North to land in the same spot.

  • 1 decade ago

    The North pole,,,

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There is no other place on the Earth that this works.

    This phenomon occurs because using you are using the compass bearings AT the pole causing your path to triangulate around the same origin.

    Is this just a question shoot-off of the riddle or is this a clever riddle you've created?

  • H
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    If you are capable of walking on hot lava, go underground to the point where the circumference of the earth is exactly one mile.

    You might need a spade.

    :)

  • 1 decade ago

    The Bermuda triange?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In a maze? or a large garden? Or the same place as the bear.... ;-)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You're in the chair you were in at the start, and all your travelling was on Google Earth.

    Otherwise it doesn't make any sense...

  • 1 decade ago

    There is no other place.

  • 1 decade ago

    The sun

    Good Luck

    ~Olivia T

    ('''\(o.o)/''')

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