Next time you're marooned offshore and need to call the coast guard to come rescue you,
they'll need more information than that. You haven't described an 'absolute location'.
California spans a range of about 9.5 degrees of latitude, or about 650 miles north-to-south.
Flying a route parallel to and 100 miles off the coast is a trip of at least 650 miles. Your
disabled canoe could be anywhere on that line.
The absolute location of Santa Cruz, California is approximately 36.9741° N, 122.0308° W. The relative location of Santa Cruz is that it is located on the northern coast of Monterey Bay in the central coast region of California, about 75 miles south of San Francisco.
That's the Laccadive Sea, part of the Indian Ocean, off the southwest coast of Sri Lanka.
The absolute relative location of Pike County is in the state of Pennsylvania, in the northeastern United States. It is situated approximately 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia and around 150 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Britain which lies off the northwest coast of mainland Europe. It shares a border with England. Its Geographic Center: 6.7 miles (4.1 miles) south of Inverness near the town of Newtonmore
163,696 sq miles 423,970 km2
relative is 55 miles south of baghdad, absolute is 32 degrees north, 45 degrees east.
Coral Springs is approximately 15-20 miles from the nearest point on the Gulf Coast, depending on the specific location along the coast you are referring to.
Absolute location is the exact location of and land mark in terms of how we measure location such as longitude and altitude. Relative location is a general location defined by where we perceive a landmark to be, for example Botswana is north of South Africa.
Depend on location, 3-250 miles
The Holderness Coast is approximately 20-30 miles east of Hull, depending on the specific location along the coast.
It meanders west to east over 200 miles of southern England, from the Cotswolds to the North Sea, - where would you like to be absolute.
The Galapagos Islands are located approximately 600 miles west of the coast of Ecuador in South America. The specific coordinates for the center of the archipelago are around 0.6132° S, 90.7164° W.