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What is longitude messured in?
Longitude is an angle. So is latitude. Both can be measured in any angle unit, but the 'degree' and its subdivisions have always been the most popular.
What is the longitudes of Antarctica?
All lines of longitude converge at both poles. The South Pole is located at Antarctica. The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude. Should it become necessary to provide a longitude, it usually given as 0 degees W longitude.
One degree of longitude equals 0 miles on the ground?
Actually, one degree of longitude equals about 69 miles on the ground. This is because a full circle of longitude, which is 360 degrees, corresponds to the Earth's full circumference of approximately 24,901 miles.
Why is the distance on a map showing 1 degree of longitude smaller than 1 degree of latitude yet both represent the same angle?
The lines of latitude represent degrees of arc being 111 kilometers per degree on the Earths surface. (111111.111 meters). That is how the meter was defined. Lines of longutude have this size on the equator but the lines converge at the poles where the distance between them becomes zero. So on maps, you will see that the distance of lines of latitude are always the same but those of longitude are smaller as distance increases away fro the equator.
What countries are at 20 degrees longitude?
Longitude is measured both east and west. If you don't specify that, then we reallydon't know which way you're talking about.The meridian of 20° east longitude passes through Svalbard, Norway, Sweden,Finland, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Greece,Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola,Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, and Antarctica (not a country),whereas the meridian of 20° west longitude passes through Greenland, Iceland,and Antarctica (not a country).As you can see, it really does make a difference.
What continent does every line of longitude pass through?
Every line of longitude passes through both the North and South Poles, which are located on the continent of Antarctica.
What continent is crossed by every line of longitude?
Antarctica. The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude. The North Pole is at 90 degrees N latitude. All lines of longitude converge at both poles.
What is longitude messured in?
Longitude is an angle. So is latitude. Both can be measured in any angle unit, but the 'degree' and its subdivisions have always been the most popular.
What is the longitudes of Antarctica?
All lines of longitude converge at both poles. The South Pole is located at Antarctica. The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude. Should it become necessary to provide a longitude, it usually given as 0 degees W longitude.
Which continents are touched by both Atlantic and pacific oceans?
The following continents border the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: 1. North and South America; 2. Antarctica
Why does Antarctica cover every line of longitude?
The South Pole is the end point for all lines of longitude -- as is the North Pole -- so all lines meet at both poles. The South Pole is located on the Antarctic continent.
Is antarctica east of the prime meridian?
The south end of each meridian of longitude is at the south pole which is within Antarctica. Substantial parts of Antarctic are both east and west of the prime meridian. I was trying to find out the longitude of Pine Island where a county sized iceberg is ready to calve. My guess is that it would go east of Chile.
What is the longitude and latitude position of antarctica?
The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude. The North Pole is at 90 degrees N latitude. All lines of longitude converge at both poles. The Antarctic Circle is at 66 degrees 32 minutes S latitude. Most of the land mass of Antarctica is within the Antarctic Circle.
One degree of longitude equals 0 miles on the ground?
Actually, one degree of longitude equals about 69 miles on the ground. This is because a full circle of longitude, which is 360 degrees, corresponds to the Earth's full circumference of approximately 24,901 miles.
What two countries are both east and west of the Prime Meridian?
Both of them are: England, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. Plus the continent of Antarctica, which includes territory at every longitude on earth.
How many kilometers are in a degree of longitude?
Lines of longitude are not parallel. They all converge at both the North Pole and the South Pole. Therefore there is no numeric constant to this value. The maximum distance represented by one degree of longitude, measured along a line of latitude (that is, parallel to the Equator), would be approximately 40,076 km divided by 360, or 111.3 km (69.2 mi).
Which continents are touched by both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans?
Africa, Antarctica, North America, and South America are touched by both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. The Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans run from the ice of the North Pole to the ice of the South Pole. But unlike the Southern polar ice, the Northern polar ice doesn't cover land.
