Where to live if you really hate the ocean
Where to live if you really hate the ocean
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Lake Superior is apparently not water
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They should not have used the term "water access" when they meant "ocean access."
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It feels wrong, but landlocked typically refers to coastline on the ocean.
If you use navigability to the ocean, then the states on the Mississippi River also aren't landlocked.
There isn't a word for "c'mon, the great lakes have proper freighters and a coast guard presence. Michigan is obviously not landlocked".
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Not just the Mississippi. The US happens to have the most miles of navigable rivers and coastlines, as well as the most natural deep bays, of any country in the world.
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Lake Superior....get over yourself.
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Lake Mead is sadly now Lake Inferior.
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south of most of the great lakes doesn't seem to count.... oh I see now. The great beaches of Hudson Bay count as ocean access, no matter how little ships or beachgoers there are.
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ITT: A bunch of people who have no idea what landlocked means.
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Yes. Also folks who have never seen a container ship the size of a hotel pull up to the shipping pier in one of these "landlocked" states.
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The quaint little hotels are another great reason to visit the landlocked states!
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"What about the pond in my backyard? cHeCKmAtE"
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Mississippi river: am I a joke to you?
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Ah, Chicago, famously landlocked. I guess it's not the ocean. But you can get there from the lakes.
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Well that's true of nearly anywhere next to a lake or river, right? I think we'd count Manaus in Brazil
or Kazan in Russiaas being landlocked despite being next to large navigable rivers that go to the ocean-
Different definitions of the word "landlocked" have different meanings. There's one sense that's more relating to logistics, where a country/state/whatever is landlocked if it doesn't have something that functions like a port, not just a dock, or could if desired.
In that sense, Chicago is not landlocked because they have a port that can receive freight. Other places on the great lakes could although they might not due to whatever reason.The other definition has more to do with controlling access to oceanic waters. Chicagos access to the ocean is at the mercy of Canada and all the states that control the st Lawrence seaway.
So if you're discussing economics you care that Bolivia can get freight shipping. If you're discussing geopolitics you care that Bolivia needs to form agreements with other countries to ensure that access remains uninterrupted.
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Kazan is next to a large navigable river that doesn't go to ocean :p
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I will not accept this geography slander
Idaho has a seaport!
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Michigan, surrounded by water on 3 sides gets landlocked status. Salty ocean must be the signifier
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This isn't taking altitude into account at all. When the ocean starts coming to you, you don't want to be in Nebraska.
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The mean elevation of the state is 2600 feet above sea level. The point of lowest elevation in the state is still 840 feet above sea level. According to National Geographic and the USGS, if all of the ice in the world melted, the rise in sea level would be approximately 215-230 feet. While, obviously, the second and third order effects are a different kettle of fish, from a submergence standpoint, Nebraska will be just fine.
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What about if you don't want to live in North America?
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You know what state used to be the bottom of the ocean? Nebraska. I think the state hates the ocean too xD
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Wisconsin is definitely not double landlocked, direct access to the oceans via the Mississippi River and through the Great Lakes.
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Yeah but then Nebraska has access to the ocean via river too
How's about we just take it as "ocean coastline" and leave it at that
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Can confirm: From South Dakota, have thalassophobia
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That or maybe Mongolia? Or further into Canada.
What point on earth is farthest from all oceans? I recall seeing a similar map around here recently, but it wasn’t with oceans.
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Yeah and yourself