The Degree Confluence project is an all-volunteer web-based project which aims to have people visit each of
the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting
photographs and a narrative of each visit online. The project describes itself
as "an organized sampling of the world".
The official website
states: "The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and
longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at
each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted
here."
The degree
confluence project was started by Alex Jarrett in February 1996. The
country-wise confluence points and their visit information are available on the website.
Also lots of cool facts available regarding most visits, highest visits, etc.
[Image above shows the confluence points in Bhutan: 27N89E, 27N90E, 27N91E, 27N92E and 28N90E]
We first heard of
the confluence project when our scholarly former CTO and quizmaster posted this as a
double jeopardy question during an intra-organization quiz contest sometime in
late 2011. Ever since then me and a couple of like minded friends were keen on to
visit a confluence point.
The "thrill" factor being arming ourselves
with GPS receivers and wandering off to locate the integer intersections akin
to making our very own discovery of a new land, place, people and culture.
Gubbu gang being
Gubbu gang, under the tutelage of Gubbu, planned to make our first confluence
visit in Maharashtra during August 2012. The usual suspects: Omkar, Vishal,
Sourabh and me did manage a very successful visit of not one, not two but three
confluence visits in our very first attempt.
We made several confluence visits:
- Maharashtra IN, 2012
- Madhya Pradesh IN, 2014
- Gujarat IN, 2016
- Maharashtra IN, 2017
I will be writing up more
details of each visit soon.
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