Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home

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The prime meridian goes near the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London and acts as the zero longitude. This coordinate must lay between -180° (west of the prime meridian) and 180° (east of the prime meridian). Coordinates and heading Every city in the world has one thing in common: they each have a pair of coordinates, numbers that describe their location. While no cities can share both sets of coordinates (since it’s the exact location of the city), many share one of the numbers that make up their coordinate pair. Find sources: "List of countries by latitude"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Longitudinally, New York is around the same at 73 degrees West as most of the country of Chile. Interestingly, South America is almost entirely east of the United States. The time zones range from UTC -05:00 (same as Eastern time) to UTC -02:00. Photo by Larissa Paschoal

Next we looked at the tropical easterlies, which are winds that are located between 0 and 30 degrees and blow towards the equator. Saint Petersburg is a city in Russia. How many states are located on or around the 60-degree north latitude line? Expressing the direction with positive or negative values is common in the DD format of coordinates. It's less popular with DMS or DDM.

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Here comes the wind! Oh no, it's blowing his house down! The prevailing westerlies are powerful and strong, so run, little piggy, run! It looks like he's made it! Wow, that was close! Lesson Summary During Daylight Saving Time (DST), time is adjusted one hour forward, to make use of earlier sunrises, usually between April and October each year. Daylight Saving Time is observed in many countries around the world.

Empire State Building: Lat: 40.7484° N, Long: -73.9857° W. Since the longitude coordinate is directed towards the west, we need to add a minus (-) sign to write the longitude coordinate in a degrees-only format. Ajoy to read, its prose as clear as the light on the Greenland ice-cap" Michael Kerr, the Telegraph. For example, let's convert the Sydney Opera House coordinates from DD to DMS. The coordinates are -33.858611 151.214167.

The Northernmost city in the world is Alert, Nunavut, Canada, at more than 82 degrees North. That puts Alert just 550 miles (885 km) from the North Pole. In Europe, Norway’s Ny-Ålesund is over 78 degrees above the equator. And Alaska is home to the northernmost U.S. city of Barrow, at 71 degrees latitude. The issue then becomes, where is 60 degrees south latitude? The Southern Ocean stretches north from Antarctica’s coast to 60 degrees south latitude, roughly corresponding to the Antarctic Treaty zone and the length of the Antarctic Convergence. In the maps below, the colors of the swaths indicate the number of times the area was imaged by SRTM. For land, one-time coverage is green, twice is yellow-green and so on, as shown in the key at lower left. Over water, the color code is in shades of blue as shown in the key at lower right. Areas in red could not be mapped. SRTM is a topography mission, so data were mostly acquired over land. Small amounts of data were collected over the water for calibration purposes.