Latitude: N 59° 19' 45.5628" / Longitude: E 18° 4' 6.8916"
The equator is an imaginary line equidistant from the poles, and is the starting point or 0° in latitude.
First Quardrant = North Latitude, East Longitude
Latitude, with an A, goes across the map.Longitude, with an O, goes over the Poles.
Latitude lays flat and spiders have long legs
Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, lies on approximately 25 degrees north latitude.
Every position on the Earth has a latitude and a longitude measured in degrees. Changing the latitude while keeping the same longitude means you are moving north or south along a meridian. On the other hand changing the longitude but not the latitude means that you move east/west along a parallel of latitude. Lines of latitude are called 'small circles' (except the equator) because they get smaller and smaller at higher latitudes, but they are always parallel, so they are parallels of latitude. Lines of longitude are 'great circles' because they always lie in a plane that goes through the Earth's centre, and they are called meridians. Your personal meridian at this moment is a great circle that contains you, the north and south poles, and the centre of the Earth. Get an onion and mark a small 'x' on it, then cut it in two at the 'x' making sure to cut it through its north and south poles as well. The cut plane marks the meridian of the 'x'.
There are no continents at that certain point, but what does lie there is the North Atlantic Ocean.
Latitude, with an A, goes across the map.Longitude, with an O, goes over the Poles.
Yes, Greenwich, a district in London, is located at 0 degrees longitude and is where the prime meridian, which establishes the starting point for the lines of longitude, passes through. However, the location of Greenwich does not lie directly on any specific latitude line.
The Arctic circle is 66 33′ 39″ north and the Antarctic is the same south of the equator.Every longitude crosses both circles.
Not all maps show latitude and longitude. On those that do some have horizontal lines indicating where lines of latitude lie, and on the right and left margins of the map these lines will have the latitude they represent marked. Then on some maps the lines are missing but the notations in the margin show where the lined of latitude should be.