Latitude and longitude describe the location of a point. They're not used for countries,
areas, and land masses.
There is no land at 60° south / 60° west. That point is in the far south Atlantic Ocean,
roughly 150 miles from the nearest islands along the Antarctic coast, 400 miles southeast
of the island of Diego Ramirez off the southern tip of South America, 500 miles west of
the South Orkney Islands, and 575 miles south of Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
Here is a list of continents, seas and oceans that the Prime Meridian passes.Continents:AntarcticaAfricaEuropeSeas:Greenland SeaNorweigian SeaNorth SeaMediterranean SeaGulf of GuineaOceans:Arctic OceanAtlantic OceanSouthern Ocean
0 degrees longitude, also known as the Prime Meridian, the Greenwich Meridian or the International Meridian.This is the line(along with the International Date Line opposite) that divides the earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres. The Prime Meridian is also the middle of the Greenwich Mean Time Zone(GMT).The Prime Meridian runs through the following countries.United Kingdom(specifically Greenwich Observatory)FranceSpainAlgeriaMaliBurkina FasoTogoGhanaAntarctica (Queen Maud Land, claimed by Norway)
Over Water, the equator and prime meridian meet over the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic ocean a few hundred kilometers off the coast of Africa, about 385 miles south of Accra, Ghana, and 650 miles west of Libreville, Gabon. Also the international date line (180 meridian) and the equator meet over water, near the Phoenix islands in the Pacific.
any location with a longitude reading east of the prime meridian is in the what
latitude and longtiude lines
Here is a list of continents, seas and oceans that the Prime Meridian passes.Continents:AntarcticaAfricaEuropeSeas:Greenland SeaNorweigian SeaNorth SeaMediterranean SeaGulf of GuineaOceans:Arctic OceanAtlantic OceanSouthern Ocean
The southernmost land crossed by the Prime Meridian is the Antarctic continent, but there are no countries there. The southernmost country on the Prime Meridian is Ghana.
That point is in the south Atlantic Ocean, about 850 miles due west of the Namibian coast of Africa, and 1,770 miles due south of the Ghanaian coast of Africa.
The intersection, with coordinates zero latitude/zero longitude, is at sea in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of west Africa, about 300 miles south of Accra, Ghana.
Prime Meridian
0 degrees longitude, also known as the Prime Meridian, the Greenwich Meridian or the International Meridian.This is the line(along with the International Date Line opposite) that divides the earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres. The Prime Meridian is also the middle of the Greenwich Mean Time Zone(GMT).The Prime Meridian runs through the following countries.United Kingdom(specifically Greenwich Observatory)FranceSpainAlgeriaMaliBurkina FasoTogoGhanaAntarctica (Queen Maud Land, claimed by Norway)
Over Water, the equator and prime meridian meet over the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic ocean a few hundred kilometers off the coast of Africa, about 385 miles south of Accra, Ghana, and 650 miles west of Libreville, Gabon. Also the international date line (180 meridian) and the equator meet over water, near the Phoenix islands in the Pacific.
any location with a longitude reading east of the prime meridian is in the what
latitude and longtiude lines
Water
-- The "Prime Meridian" marks zero longitude. -- The "180th meridian" marks 180° longitude. The International Dateline is either on or relatively near the 180th meridian at any given latitude on it.
In land surveying, latitude is a north-south reference line used to determine a location's position on the Earth's surface. Departures, on the other hand, are east-west distances measured from a reference line, typically a meridian. Together, latitude and departures are used to calculate coordinates for plotting and mapping land parcels.