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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Fort Kent Mills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fort Kent Mills and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
- To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Fort Kent Mills:
- 47.238928, -68.583935
- Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
- Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Fort Kent Mills
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Aroostook County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Aroostook County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Fort Kent Mills
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fort Kent Mills ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
- Boundary
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boundary
- Burnt Landing
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Burnt Landing is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Landing
- Burnt Mill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Burnt Mill is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Mill
- Eagle Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Frenchville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Jones Mill
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jones Mill is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Mill
- Michigan Settlement
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Michigan Settlement is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Michigan Settlement
- Soldier Pond
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
How Far From Fort Kent Mills to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Fort Kent Mills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Fort Kent Mills and extending to:
- Houlton, which is the Seat of Aroostook County, lies 84 miles [135.2 km]<2> to the south southeast. If you could drive a straight line from Fort Kent Mills to Houlton, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
- Augusta, which is the State Capital of Maine, lies 210 miles [338 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 12 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 715 miles [1,150.7 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 41 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,219 miles [8,399.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,943 miles [9,564.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,819 miles [6,146.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fort Kent Mills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day. |
| <4> | The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Fort Kent Mills to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Kent Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.2389, Longitude: -68.5839 In this case, the coordinates for Fort Kent Mills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 301.539 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 297.705 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 296.609 degrees. |
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