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Every point on Earth has both a latitude and a longitude.Any point whose latitude is anything between 37° and 40° North,and whose longitude is anything between 95.3° and 102° West,is somewhere in Kansas.
You would have to identify a particular glacier whose location can be identify to give latitude and longitude values to it.
The Prime Meridian is a line of longitude. It's the line made up of every point on earth whose longitude is zero.
There is no place on Earth whose latitude and longitude can't be measured,but there is a point where both of those measurements are zero.The point is at sea in the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of western Africa,about 385 miles south of Accra, Ghana.The coordinates of that point are Latitude 00 00' 00.0" / Longitude 00 00' 00.0".
The so-called 'lines' of longitude are also called 'meridians'. The Prime Meridian is a line of longitude. It's the line made out of all the points on Earth whose longitude is zero.
The Prime Meridian is the line whose longitude is defined as zero. The equator is the line whose latitude is defined as zero.
The prime meridian is to longitude. The prime meridian is the line of reference for measuring east-west positions on the Earth, just as the equator is the reference line for measuring north-south positions.
North Pole and South Pole
The zero degree line of latitude, known as the Equator, and the zero degree line of longitude, known as the Prime Meridian, intersect at a point in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Africa. This intersection is located off the coast of Ghana, in the Gulf of Guinea.
If measured by a sweeping curve whose slope is -1° of latitude per degree of longitude, the three northeasternmost U.S. states are Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.