Anchorage is centered at about 150° west longitude.
Sydney is centered at about 151° east.
Anchorage is much closer to that longitude than Sydney is.
Anchorage is centered at about 150° west longitude.Sydney is centered at about 151° east longitude.
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
The absolute location of Anchorage, Alaska is 61 degrees and 13' North, 149 degrees and 52' West.
Anchorage is a coastal city, on Cook Inlet, and sits on a plateau at an approximate El of 100 ft.
There's no city there. That point is in Alaska, about 170 miles west of the Ted Stevens International Airport at Anchorage.
Anchorage, Alaska
There's no city there. That point is in the water, near the now-decommissioned gas production platforms 'Anna' and 'Bruce' formerly operated by Amoco and BP in the Cook Inlet, about 23.9 miles northeast of the East Forelands point on the Kenai Peninsula, and 34.2 miles west-southwest of the nearest runway at the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage AK.
It tells you how far east or west you are from an imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole and that passes through Greenwich, near London, England. You get up to 180 degrees east and 180 degrees west. Sydney in Australia is 151° East.
There's no city there. That point is in the water, just off the coast of the Chugach National Forest in Alaska. The nearest cities are Valdez, about 24 miles to the east-northeast, and Anchorage, about 100 miles to the west.
Los Angeles, California is the large city near 34 degrees North and 118 degrees West.