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What key line of longitude line is located near Homer?
The International Date Line is located near Homer, Alaska.
What state is near the International Date Line?
ALASKA because some of alaska touchs the date line
What is line date?
The international date line is near New Zealand. It can also be described as 180 degrees East/West. It circles the globe with the Prime Meridian.
Where would the prime meridian and international dateline be placed on a world map?
Most world maps are drawn with the Prime Meridian at or near the center and the International Date Line at or near the left and/or right edge(s).
What is the internatinal date line?
An imaginary line on the surface of the earth.
The islands of Hawaii are...?
In the North Pacific Ocean south west of California near the international date line. About 4 hours plane ride from Los Angeles
What is the international date line degree?
The International Date Line generally follows the "anti-meridian" at 180 degrees of longitude. However, it deviates east and west in a very political fashion, to keep most of the islands near the 180 mark in the same day. So around the Aleutian islands of Alaska, the International Date Line cuts way over to the west, to keep all of the Aleutian Islands on the same day.
What are the advantages of international dateline?
The International Date Line is an imaginary line of longitude which divides Earth into two days. Crossing the International Date Line east results in a day subtracted and crossing it west results in a day added. This is where the calendar day resets.
Do you have to cross the international date line to get France from US?
No, the International Date Line zig zags through the Pacific Ocean roughly along longitude 180 degrees. It is opposite the Prime Meridian (longitude 0 degrees). Paris is located at about 2 degrees E longitude, so the Prime Meridian does not run through it, but it is nearby.
Where in the world is the last place to start a new day?
Along the western edge of the international date line, running down the pacific ocean from north to south, with Alaska on the west and Russia on the east. Alaska, as near to the edge of the date line as possible, would be the last place on earth to start a new day.
When was international date line established?
The very quick answer: It was never actually established by any kind of international law or agreement.The history link below is particularly helpful, if rather detailed. First mention of the 'circumnavigator's paradox', the loss or gain of one day for those travelling around the globe, is from a Syrian prince and historian during the late 1200's or early 1300's. Later geographers and philosophers made reference to it. With Magellan's (1480-1521) historic circumnavigation, the paradox was at last experienced.Since Magellan there have been a few different ways to solve the problem, as the history shows. As far as I can determine, there has never been set by any international agreement the actual location of what we now call the International Date Line; it came about essentially through convention and common use. Any nation is free to establish whatever standard time it sees fit, and this includes dates.The International Date Line is theoretically the line of 180 degrees longitude, the meridian exactly opposite the Prime Meridian or Greenwich Meridian. From the beginning, various nations on or near to the 180 degree meridian have established that they are on one side or the other of the 'date line', and its 'location' is always subject to change.The location of the date line is independent of the time zone(s) that span a nation or territory. The easternmost region of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, Caroline Island, experiences midnight as it always has relative to locations to its north and south. but since 1995 Kiribati declared that midnight at Caroline Island marks the beginning of the day to the west of the International Date Line; Kiribati 'moved' the line to its east.If you and a friend are standing face to face with the IDL between you, the one to the west is one day advanced compared to the one to the east. It would have been less drastic for Kiribati to 'move' the dateline to its west instead, leaving all of Kiribati on the same side of the line as North and South America. Some have argued that the arbitrary move was to foster tourism, since Caroline Island became, by definition, the first location on earth (along with Antarctica, of course) to experience the change of millennium.The Prime Meridian was internationally decided by the International Meridian Conference of 1884, but that conference did not presume to fix or decree the location of the date line or boundaries of time zones, wisely concluding that these were matters for sovereign nations to decide for themselves. In fact the location of a prime meridian and of a date line, while very important, are entirely arbitrary, and have nothing whatever to do with any special characteristic or property of any part of the globe.
What was the date and location of the battle of the bull run?
july 21, 1861 near Manassas Junction in Virginia
