points.json

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"45.8591~-77.7785~maw~Algonquin Park~Lake Fever~Want to be your wheezing screen door / Want to be your stars of Algonquin~You can thank glaciers for all the lakes",
"46.0331~-78.6294~maw~Algonquin Park~The Bear~I think it was Algonquin Park / It was so cold and winter-dark~The oldest provincial park in Canada",
"-77.4135~-106.4082~pp~Antarctica~Chagrin Falls~Where to now? If I had to guess / I'm afraid to say Antarctica's next~Lake Vostok, hidden under the ice, is the size of Lake Ontario",
"-65.9521~52.6898~pp~Antarctica~Emperor Penguin~In a spartan Antarctican walk for many days~An Emperor Penguin can walk up to 110 km to breed",
"41.8187~12.558~maw~Appian Way~Puttin' Down~United state of ricochet / From the boardwalk to the Appian way~A historic road from the Roman Republic",
"52.924~-82.4289~nfpa~Attawapiskat~Goodnight Attawapiskat~Attawapiskat / City by the Bay~'People of the parting of the rocks'",
"-22.2053~150.0385~maw~Australia~Sharks~Sharks don't attack the Irish / It's mostly Australians~The Land Down Under",
"47.6562~-117.4245~dfn~Baby Bar~Emergency~We're sitting in the Baby Bar bereft / At a shadowy table out past the sentences end~A bar in Spokane, WA. Just maybe the same bar the song is referring to",
"52.5197~13.3408~maw~Berlin~Sharks~When the sharks finished the Irish / And those people from Berlin~The front line of the Cold War",
"52.52~13.4049~fc~Berlin~El Dorado~Just the mention of Berlin makes me sexy~During the Weimar Republic, Berlin was indeed a decadent place",
"51.5006~-0.1244~ivl~Big Ben~Silver Jet~It's quiet again / When a car like Big Ben~Big Ben is the name of the bell, not the clock or the tower",
"49.9581~-80.9499~fc~Bill Barilko~Fifty Mission Cap~Bill Barilko disappeared that summer / He was on a fishing trip~This is roughly where the plane was found 11 years after the crash",
"44.5414~-78.5438~pp~Bobcaygeon~Bobcaygeon~It was in Bobcaygeon I saw the constellations / Reveal themselves on star at a time~The Hub of the Kawarthas",
"42.8844~-78.8634~fc~Buffalo~At The Hundredth Meridian~I remember Buffalo / And I remember Hengelo~Birthplace of the Buffalo wing",
"51.1023~-114.1337~nfpa~Calgary~Take Forever~He breaks down, when I broke down / I always thought I'd go to Calgary~Cowtown",
"54.18~-73.75~ibe~Canada~Summer's Killing Us~Til you say 'Canada lost. Go home.'~Land of Maple Syrup",
"58.43~-110.13~wc~Canada~Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me~Oh, Canada emptied, there was me / Featureless and freezing~The Great White North",
"47.517~-52.6325~ivl~Cape Spear~Silver Jet~Silver jet / Clayqout Sound to Cape Spear~The eastern-most edge of Canada",
"40.7678~-73.9717~ibe~Central Park Zoo~Gus, The Polar Bear From Central Park~[Song Title]~Gus was the first zoo animal to be treated with Prozac",
"41.4305~-81.3902~pp~Chagrin Falls~Chagrin Falls~Or Chagrin Falls, Ohio / Where the unknown won't even go~The town setting helped inspire the comic Calvin and Hobbes",
"41.8758~-87.6793~wats~Chicago~The Depression Suite~Under the pillow / I bury my head and try and shut Chicago out ~The Windy City",
"43.6651~-79.4205~pp~Christie Pits~Bobcaygeon~In the middle of that riot / Couldn't get you off my mind~Nazi and Jewish groups clashed at Christie Pits in the 1930s",
"58.7685~-94.1669~pp~Churchill~Thompson Girl~Thompson Girl walking from Churchill / Across the icy world with polar bears it's mostly uphill~The Polar Bear Capital of the World",
"49.1626~-125.9248~ivl~Clayoquot Sound~Silver Jet~Silver jet / Clayqout Sound to Cape Spear~Site of large protests against clearcut logging in 1993",
"41.5084~-81.6948~wc~Cleveland~World Container~Good News! You get to vanish / Go to Cleveland, be an indie smash~The Forest City",
"55.6759~12.5754~ibe~Copenhagen~One Night In Copenhagen~Quits you at a payphone in the snow / One night in Copenhagen~The city aims to be carbon-neutral by 2025",
"31.7632~-106.4663~dfn~El Paso~Yawning Or Snarling~One day in El Paso / The cops go into the crowd~The Six Shooter Capitol",
"43.6671~-79.5423~ivl~Etobicoke~Ultra Mundane~It's time to make ya inside with a wristband, alright / To see Etobicoke coyotes~Place where the alders grow",
"-22.945~-135.2783~ivl~Gambier Islands~The Dire Wolf~Yawnin' shores / Gambier-bleached / In tomorrow's thorough light~",
"25.6511~85.065~maw~Ganges River~My Music At Work~Determining where you are / In a sink full of Ganges, I remain~",
"51.3006~-116.9496~ra~Golden Rim Motor Inn~The Luxury~The Golden Rim Motor Inn / Soft water and a colour TV~It's now a Days Inn",
"44.2859~-76.9436~dfn~Goodyear~Titanic Terrarium~His great grandfather worked for Goodyear / He'd see the blimp on Sunday's~The Napanee Goodyear plant is a major employer in the Kingston area",
"24.9688~-90.6877~wats~Gulf Of Mexico~The Depression Suite~I move through huge rooms with no windows  / And no Gulf of Mexico~The Grand Canyon under the sea",
"45.2898~-75.8698~dfn~Hazeldean~Greasy Jungle~I drove down your road / To Hazeldean where I tasted / Your funeral home's / sandwiches and coffee~Kelly Funeral Home is located in Hazeldean, Kanata",
"52.2574~6.7627~fc~Hengelo~At The Hundredth Meridian~I remember Buffalo / And I remember Hengelo~The Hip got lost trying to find the Metropool in Hengelo. They were right fermented when they finally got there",
"32.8292~76.8635~pp~Himalayas~Poets~Those Himalayas of the mind~More analogy taken at word",
"44.2841~-76.7173~dfn~Hiway 401~Titanic Terrarium~There's a trace o mint wafting in from the north / So we don't fuck with the 401~Good advice right there.  It's a mess in bad weather",
"43.649~-79.3929~pp~Horseshoe Tavern~Bobcaygeon~That night in Toronto with its checkerboard floors~The Horseshoe has checkerboard tile floors",
"53.0104~-9.0305~maw~Ireland~Sharks~Sharks don't attack the Irish / It's mostly Australians~This is an important location in Ireland",
"47.5874~-58.9745~ivl~Isle Aux Morts~The Dire Wolf~In that September off / Isle aux Morts ~Island of the Dead",
"44.2314~-76.4863~tth~Kingston~Small Town Bringdown~You're a top ten kingpin in the borders of your hometown~The Hip's hometown",
"55.752~37.6165~pp~Kremlin~Fireworks~Crisis of faith and crisis in the Kremlin / And yeah we'd heard all that before~The Fortress Inside a City",
"43.076~-89.3767~tathh~Kurt Cobain~Don't Wake Daddy~Kurt Cobain, reinacrnated, sighs and licks is face~This location is the bar where Nirvana opened for the Hip due to a double booking",
"45.0355~-72.2548~ivl~Lake Memphemagog~Problem Bears~Writing a song about Lake Memphremagog~'Where there is a big expanse of water'",
"43.7262~-77.6926~maw~Lake Ontario~Lake Fever~I'll tell you a story about the lake fever~A cholera epidemic hit along the shores of Lake Ontario in 1832",
"44.3344~-75.9992~tth~Last American Exit~Last American Exit~I'm on the last American exit to the Northland~This would be the last exit to Kingston",
"34.0208~-118.2222~nfpa~Los Angeles~Now For Plan A~I'll stay till the wisteria fades / And falls on L.A.~The City of Angels",
"55.7182~37.5491~pp~Luzhniki Arena~Fireworks~If there's a goal that everyone remembers / It was back in ol '72~Where Game 8 of the Summit Series was played",
"17.7755~142.5839~maw~Mariana Trench~Sharks~From the Moon down to the surface of the Mariana's Trench~About as deep as you can get",
"44.1959~-76.7512~uth~Millhaven Institution~38 Years Old~Twelve men broke loose in Seventy-Three / From Millhaven maximum security~The actual jailbreak that inspired the song was 14 inmates in 1972. The year was changed to make things rhyme",
"46.2666~-93.7727~ibe~Minnesota~If New Orleans Is Beat~Here where the Mississippi quits / Where its still got a bit of Minnesota in it~The Land of 10,000 Lakes",
"29.3889~-89.2124~ibe~Mississippi River~If New Orleans Is Beat~Here where the Mississippi quits / Where its still got a bit of Minnesota in it~Old Man River. The longest in North America",
"46.6299~-53.1716~wc~Mistaken Point~Fly~There's Mistaken Point, Newfoundland / There's Moonbeam Ontario~Sailors would mistake this for Cape Rice in the fog, to their peril",
"49.343~-82.1542~wc~Moonbeam~Fly~There's Mistaken Point, Newfoundland / There's Moonbeam Ontario~Pioneers claimed to have seen flashing lights falling from the sky here",
"27.9858~86.9235~tathh~Mount Everest~Sherpa~We were high / We were sherpa high~Mount Everest is high, and there's a good chance you'll find Sherpas there",
"40.821~14.4272~maw~Mount Vesuvius~Toronto #4~Did you know you were the rock plug for all of us / Did you know in the conduit of Vesuvius~It destroyed a lot of stuff in AD 79",
"36.1597~-86.7794~ibe~Nashville~It Can't Be Nashville Every Night~Stares into the blur of the tuner lights / It can't be Nashville every night~Music City, U.S.A",
"52.72~-123.35~ibe~New Caledonia~Are We Family~The lost to the recovered? / The New Caledonian crow to the chimpanzee?~Better known these days as British Columbia",
"29.9424~-90.0679~wats~New Orleans~The Depression Suite~Working in the new NewOrleansWorld~The Big Easy",
"29.9758~-90.0413~ibe~New Orleans~If New Orleans Is Beat~If New Orleans is beat / Where's that leave you and me?~The Crescent City",
"30.0038~-90.0102~uth~New Orleans~New Orleans Is Sinking~New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't wanna swim~The song wasn't played much during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina",
"40.7127~-74.0059~tathh~New York~Flamenco~Maybe I'll go to New York / I'll drag you there / You said, 'no one drags me anywhere'~In the early 1800's, pigs roamed the streets feasting on trash",
"40.7133~-73.8444~pp~New York~Escape Is At Hand For The Travelling Man~It was our third time in New York / It was your fourth time in New York~The Big Apple",
"48.62~-56.03~ivl~Newfoundland~The Dire Wolf~At the Dire Wolf's crest / The Newfoundland paused~May be referring to the breed of dog",
"43.0772~-79.0752~dfn~Niagara Falls~Daredevil~Do you like it inside a barrel / plunging over the falls?~Annie Edison Taylor was the first to ride down the falls in a barrel in 1901",
"43.521~-76.4043~wats~Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station~Morning Moon~The reactor's down, I guess for Labour Day / Today's the first day I ain't seen / The great plume of steam from across the lake~Poetry",
"54.975~-2.1052~ivl~Northumberland~Silver Jet~As if the Wolves of Northumberland themselves / Were rumoured to be en route ~A millennium ago, Northumberland was known for its high wolf population",
"39.3058~-75.1665~maw~Philadelphia~The Bastard~Then you turned all Billy Sunday, shoutin' / Philadelphia for Christ and Christ for Philadelphia~The Cradle of Liberty",
"44.0073~-77.1408~tth~Regent Theatre~All Canadian Surf Club~Well there's a rockin' little spot next to the Regent Theatre~This Regent Theatre is close to Sandbanks Provincial Park, known for sandbar waves",
"39.524~-119.7467~tth~Reno~Small Town Bringdown~Been to Reno / Drives an El Camino~The Biggest Little City in the World",
"51.7276~36.1923~dfn~Russia~Scared~You're in Russia and more than a million works of art / Are whisked out to the woods / So when the Nazi's find the whole place dark / They'd think God's left the museum for good~Whether this happened or not seems to fall under WW2 legend. This location is Kursk museum",
"42.974~-82.4052~mmp~Sarnia~In Sarnia~In my blood / Sarnia, you've been on my mind~The Imperial City",
"52.1361~-106.6473~fc~Saskatoon~Wheat Kings~Sundown in the Paris of the Praries / Wheat kings have all their treasures buried~David Milgaard was wrongly imprisoned for a Saskatoon murder",
"46.5251~-84.301615~ra~Sault Ste. Marie~Born In The Water~Smart as trees in Sault Ste. Marie~The Soo",
"-2.33~34.83~tathh~Serengeti~Don't Wake Daddy~Then they drift past strips of Serengeti / And the gates of Sleepy Hollow too~The Maa word Serengit means Endless Plains",
"43.5675~-80.2695~wats~Speed River~Speed River~Speed River take me away~",
"44.2505~-76.9452~dfn~Springside Park~An Inch An Hour~Tonight the winter may have missed its mark / You can see your breath in Springside Park / Coffee coloured ice and peeling birch bark / Sound of rushing water in the dark~My favourite Hip lyric. Perfectly describes the Napanee park in winter",
"47.2693~-122.525~ibe~Tacoma Narrows Bridge~Vaccination Scar~It went down like a bad card table / Like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge~Part bridge, part amusement ride",
"48.4845~-89.168~dfn~Terry Fox~Inevitability Of Death~Terry's gift is for ever green~Terry Fox memorial, near where he was forced to end his run across Canada",
"48.15~-16.1166~dfn~The Bismarck~Nautical Disaster~One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here / and five hundred more were thrashing madly / as parasites might in your blood~Was sunk in retaliation to the Battle of Denmark Strait",
"36.1098~-112.1945~tathh~The Grand Canyon~Gift Shop~And after a glimpse / Over the top / The rest of the world / Becomes a gift shop~Home of pink rattlesnakes",
"51~-100~fc~The Hundredth Meridian~At The Hundredth Meridian~At the hundredth meridian / Where the great planes begin~",
"41.7255~-49.9469~dfn~The Titanic~Titanic Terrarium~My great grandfather was a welder / He helped to build the Titanic / He certainly didn't think / That it was unsinkable~This is where the Titanic met its doom",
"55.7438~-97.8539~pp~Thompson~Thompson Girl~Looks like Christmas at 55 degrees / This latitude weakens my knees, Thompson girl~The Hub of the North",
"45.5543~-78.6993~ra~Tom Thompson~Three Pistols~Tom Thompson came paddling past / I'm pretty sure it was him~Tom Thompson went missing on Canoe Lake",
"43.6714~-79.4085~maw~Toronto~Toronto #4~[Song Title]~Hogtown",
"43.6875~-79.3661~wats~Toronto~Queen Of The Furrows~'Win Toronto', yelled the Queen of the Furrows / This is how we farm, hens cluck and roosters crow ~The Big Smoke",
"43.6223~-79.3784~wats~Toronto Island~The Last Recluse~We rode hard for the boat / Hard as we could~A bit of a stretch on lyrics alone, but Gord mentioned the Toronto Island reference in concert",
"48.2007~16.382~tathh~Vienna~Springtime In Vienna~[Song Title]~The City of Dreams, the City of Music"
]