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My maths are not at their best anymore, but this sentence (16:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)):
under the Tourism section puzzles me. Engaging good old Pythagoras (a²+b²=c², with a=Earth radius, c=Earth radius+height, b=distance seen) I calculated that I can see as far as 112km from the highest peak of Ulleung-do (984m), which includes Dokdo (apparently some 90km). Now, given that Dokdo itself reaches 179m, I tried the inverse calculation, which turns out that this cliff mentioned in the article needs to be 815m above sea level... This is not my understanding of a cliff... (also, of course, I only used the average Earth radius of 6371km which may be way off locally).
I really wonder whether anyone could enlighten me on this. If my maths are correct, I suggest this sentence be rewritten. Kokiri 16:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Cheers, very helpful. Kokiri 21:22, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
The article should say how many people live on the island. AnonMoos 17:39, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
There is contradicting information even within Wikipedia. First of all, if you look up "Argonaut" on Wikipedia, you find a link to Ulleungdo.
Furthermore, there's this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Letts-Popular-Atlas-1883-Russia-in-Asia-Chinese-Empire-etc.jpg If you look at that map, Argonaut and Dagelet are marked as separate islands off the eastern coast of Korea. Looking at their locations on the map, Argonaut should be Ulleungdo and Dagelet corresponds to the location of Dokdo.
If someone could conjure up a proper source for this it would be helpful. Unbal3 ( talk) 00:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Article (and article title if necessary) should be consistent on whether it should be written "Ulleungdo" or "Ulleung-do". As it stands, the article happily alternates with a slight preference for the non-hyphenated version. -- 131Platypi ( talk) 12:42, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
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My maths are not at their best anymore, but this sentence (16:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)):
under the Tourism section puzzles me. Engaging good old Pythagoras (a²+b²=c², with a=Earth radius, c=Earth radius+height, b=distance seen) I calculated that I can see as far as 112km from the highest peak of Ulleung-do (984m), which includes Dokdo (apparently some 90km). Now, given that Dokdo itself reaches 179m, I tried the inverse calculation, which turns out that this cliff mentioned in the article needs to be 815m above sea level... This is not my understanding of a cliff... (also, of course, I only used the average Earth radius of 6371km which may be way off locally).
I really wonder whether anyone could enlighten me on this. If my maths are correct, I suggest this sentence be rewritten. Kokiri 16:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Cheers, very helpful. Kokiri 21:22, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
The article should say how many people live on the island. AnonMoos 17:39, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
There is contradicting information even within Wikipedia. First of all, if you look up "Argonaut" on Wikipedia, you find a link to Ulleungdo.
Furthermore, there's this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Letts-Popular-Atlas-1883-Russia-in-Asia-Chinese-Empire-etc.jpg If you look at that map, Argonaut and Dagelet are marked as separate islands off the eastern coast of Korea. Looking at their locations on the map, Argonaut should be Ulleungdo and Dagelet corresponds to the location of Dokdo.
If someone could conjure up a proper source for this it would be helpful. Unbal3 ( talk) 00:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Article (and article title if necessary) should be consistent on whether it should be written "Ulleungdo" or "Ulleung-do". As it stands, the article happily alternates with a slight preference for the non-hyphenated version. -- 131Platypi ( talk) 12:42, 5 September 2019 (UTC)