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Most northerly/easterly etc start of TdF?

Feb 16, 2010
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With a bid being made to start the Tour de France from Glasgow in 2017 :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12149629
can any one give the extremes in longitude/latitude of the routes visited by the TdF?
Has it ever been more northerly than Scotland?

By the way the symbol of the Scottish Tourist Board is/was a rainbow - refreshingly honest!
 
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Most east: Berlin 1987
Most north & west: Dublin 1998
Most south: Don't know (probably Barcelona 2009)