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Longitude proved more difficult to determine because longitude was based in the concept of time, making clocks an important variable in navigation. The time and distance in addition to the use of the sextant for latitude proved more difficult than measuring the latitude.

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What country borders China with the latitude and longitude of China?

Every place has its own unique latitude and longitude, so other than China, no other place can have the same latitude and longitude as itself.


What map has parallel lines of latitude and longitude?

A map with parallel lines of latitude and longitude is known as a Mercator projection map. This type of map is often used for navigation purposes due to its representation of straight lines of latitude and longitude, making it easier to measure distances and plot courses. However, the Mercator projection distorts the size of landmasses, especially near the poles.


What location does NOT use latitude and longitude?

The sky. Astronomers use right ascension and declination as coordinates for locating stars, rather than latitude and longitude.


Is longitude measured in degrees?

The lines aren't measured at all, any more than the marks on a ruler need to be.It's the latitude and longitude that need to be measured, and lines are oftenprinted on maps in order to make the job easier. Latitude and Longitude are angles,so they're described in angle units, most commonly in degrees and fractions of degrees.If you see a line on a map, every point on the 'line' has the same latitude or the samelongitude, so there's nothing on the line to measure.


What is the longitude and latitude of Tromelin?

Tromelin is a sandbar with less than 1 square mile of area, in the Indian Ocean about 220 miles east of Madagascar. The weather station at the north end of its air strip is located at 15.8922° south latitude 54.5247° east longitude.

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What country borders China with the latitude and longitude of China?

Every place has its own unique latitude and longitude, so other than China, no other place can have the same latitude and longitude as itself.


What is the latitude and longitude of the tropical rain forest?

There are manytropical rainforests, and they each take up more than one latitude and longitude.


Which states contain longitude and latitude?

Every point on the surface of the earth has latitude and longitude. If the latitude and longitude of a point are given and they're sufficiently accurate, the point can be found within less than an inch, anywhere on earth.


What map has parallel lines of latitude and longitude?

A map with parallel lines of latitude and longitude is known as a Mercator projection map. This type of map is often used for navigation purposes due to its representation of straight lines of latitude and longitude, making it easier to measure distances and plot courses. However, the Mercator projection distorts the size of landmasses, especially near the poles.


What location does NOT use latitude and longitude?

The sky. Astronomers use right ascension and declination as coordinates for locating stars, rather than latitude and longitude.


Latitude and longitude of arctic ocean?

It must, by definition, cover all lines of Longitude. In terms of Latitude it is further north than, say, 60 degrees.


What directions does latitude and longitude measure?

one is longer than the other


What is the size of Antarctica continent in latitude and longitude?

Including its coastal islands, Antarctica occupies a range of more than 50° degrees of latitude, and all 360° of longitude.


Is longitude measured in degrees?

The lines aren't measured at all, any more than the marks on a ruler need to be.It's the latitude and longitude that need to be measured, and lines are oftenprinted on maps in order to make the job easier. Latitude and Longitude are angles,so they're described in angle units, most commonly in degrees and fractions of degrees.If you see a line on a map, every point on the 'line' has the same latitude or the samelongitude, so there's nothing on the line to measure.


What is the longitude and latitude of Tromelin?

Tromelin is a sandbar with less than 1 square mile of area, in the Indian Ocean about 220 miles east of Madagascar. The weather station at the north end of its air strip is located at 15.8922° south latitude 54.5247° east longitude.


Real color of latitude longitude?

Latitude and longitude are angles that describe the location of places on Earth. They don't have colour, any more than your height, weight, or age, or the address of your home, have colour.


How many miles is in 1 degree?

Degrees of longitude are uniform in length. 1 degree (Longitude) = 69.69 miles*Cos(Ө)(latitude) however the length of a degree of latitude depends on were you are on the planet. A degree of latitude at the equator is notable longer than, for example, a degree of latitude at the latitude of Toronto, Canada.