Editing Extremes on Earth (section)

===Easternmost and westernmost===
* The '''easternmost and westernmost points on Earth''', based on the east–west standard for describing [[longitude]], can be found anywhere along the [[180th meridian]], which passes through the [[Arctic Ocean|Arctic]], [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]], and [[Southern Ocean]]s, as well as parts of [[Siberia]] (including [[Wrangel Island]]), Antarctica, and three islands of [[Fiji]] ([[Vanua Levu]]'s eastern peninsula, the middle of [[Taveuni]], and the western part of [[Rabi Island]]).
** Using instead the path of the [[International Date Line]] (which is not a straight line), i.e. define "easternmost" as "the first to see a new day" and define "westernmost" as "the last to see a new day", the '''westernmost point on land''' is [[Attu Island]], [[Alaska]], and the '''easternmost point on land''' is [[Caroline Island]], [[Kiribati]].{{efn|[http://www.trussel.com/kir/dateline.htm A 1995 realignment of the International Date Line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628045504/http://trussel.com/kir/dateline.htm |date=28 June 2006}} moved all of Kiribati to the Asian side of the Date Line, causing Caroline Island to be the easternmost point. If the previous Date Line were followed, the easternmost point would be Tafahi Niuatoputapu, in the [[Tonga Islands]].}}