What is located at 59 degrees latitude and 59 degrees longitude?

Answer 1

For every number between zero and 90°, there are two latitudes ... one north and one south.

For every number between zero and 180°, there are two longitudes ... one east and one west.

Since the question doesn't include either of those pieces of information, the numbers

can refer to any one of four different points on the earth, one on land and three at sea:

59° north, 59° east:

A point in the Russian Federation, in western Siberia, about 68 miles southwest

of Krasnotur'insk.

59° north, 59° west:

A point in the north Atlantic Ocean, about 140 miles northeast of Hebron, Newfoundland.

59° south, 59° east:

A point in the far south Indian ocean, about 500 miles from the closest point on the

Antarctic coast, and 1,200 miles southeast of the Prince Edward Islands.

59° south, 59° west:

A point in the south Atlantic Ocean, roughly midway between the southern tip

of South America and the northernmost point on the coast of Antarctica, about

460 miles west-northwest of the South Orkney Islands.

We can only puzzle over what the questioner expected to find at the point that

he thought he was describing.

Answer 2

At 59 degrees latitude and 59 degrees longitude, you would find a location in the North Atlantic Ocean, closer to the Arctic Circle. This area is part of the open sea and not close to any major landmasses.