Russell,

Astounding!  Thanks muchly for pointing them out...

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:46:22 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:

> These are some of the most beautiful [tm] Shuttle + ISS photos I've
> seen. Well worth a look if you have the slightest interest in photos 
> of the
> Shuttle and Internaional Space Station with earth as a backdrop.
> 
>         also NZ interest - see below
> 
>         http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm

>...

> Of particular interest to New Zealanders is the second photo which
> very clearly shows the top of the South Island down to just below
> Christchurch/Bank's Peninsular plus the bottom of the North Island.
> Most spectacular. I'm sticking this one on pantry door photo gallery
> labelled "Kaikoura teabreak" (for reasons that will be obvious when
> viewed to all with a knowledge of NZ geography). .

Been there!  :-)  I'm a tad amazed at how narrow is the field of view - by my reckoning it's not much more than 200 miles top-to-bottom (not really North-South).  I 
would have expected it to be big enough to see the whole of NZ and then some!  I wonder how high it was?

It's a bit of a shame the the top doesn't go as far as Wellington.  It would be interesting to see what a conurbation - for NZ values of that! - looks like.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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