Well to start with - it's located in Sullivan County in
Northeast Tennessee, adjacent to the Commonwealth of Virginia. And of course in the United States of
America, on the continent of North America.
But what else? In the
World Geodetic System our latitude is 36° 35′ 42″ N and our longitude is
82° 11′ 19″ W; and in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) geographic
coordinate system we're 17S 393682
4050603. Don't
ask - beats me too.
So for reference - in the states we're on the same latitude as
Las Vegas Nevada and Virginia Beach Virginia, and just a little bit
north of Santa Fe New Mexico and a little south of San Francisco
California. Internationally, think Algiers
Algeria, Athens Greece, and Tokyo Japan and you're just about right.
And up and down (north and south) we're in basic alignment
with Cleveland Ohio and Orlando Florida; and Panama City Panama and San Jose Costa Rica in Central America. And for you trivia buffs, we're also in
alignment with the port city of Talara Peru, the westernmost city in all of
mainland South America.
Huh - I didn't know that.
