The Equator is zero latitude. The Prime Meridian is zero longitude. They meet in the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of western Africa.
The Mediterranean Sea, off the western coast of Cyprus.
The northern and southern hemispheres each have 360 degrees of longitude. The eastern and western hemispheres each have 180 degrees of longitude. You can use as many or as few 'lines' as you want, to mark off any number of degrees.
The Indian Ocean at a location of 1000+ miles off the western coast of Australia.
There are actually two seas that lie off the western coast of Alaska. The largest and most commonly known is the Bearing sea. To the north of the Bearing sea is the Chukchi sea. Both have coastlines on the western border of Alaska. Twoiron
Those numbers are the latitude and longitude of a point in the sea off the western coast of South America, about 50 miles west of Lima, Peru.
Kuqa County, Aksu, Xinjiang, China = 42.56 latitude -83.13 longitude = Troy, Michigan 48083, United States = -42.56 latitude 83.13 longitude = Indian Ocean, ~ equidistant from the northern coast of Antarctica, the western coast of Australia and the eastern coast of Africa. = -42.56 latitude -83.13 longitude = Pacific Ocean, west off the coast from Castro, Chile
The location of latitude 30.69 and longitude 88.05 is Mobile Alabama. The easiest way to pinpoint exact locations of longitude and latitude is to input the coordinates into any digital map and it will calculate it for you.
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".
A location at 20 degrees south latitude and 20 degrees west longitude corresponds to a point in the South Atlantic Ocean. This position is approximately midway between the coast of Brazil and the west coast of Africa.
There's no such thing as "north longitude". We'll assume that it should have been "north latitude", and answer the question accordingly. That point is located in the western Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the USA, about 278 miles east of Ocean City MD, and 385 miles east-southeast of downtown Washington DC.
Yes, the prime meridian is defined as 0 degrees longitude and serves as the starting point for measuring longitude around the globe. It runs through Greenwich, London, and divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.