Aargau ( German ; rarely anglicized Argovia ) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland.

Robert Hooke, in 1674, published his observations of γ Draconis, a star of magnitude 2 < sup > m </ sup > which passes practically overhead at the latitude of London, and whose observations are therefore free from the complex corrections due to astronomical refraction, and concluded that this star was 23 ″ more northerly in July than in October.

This notice was found later that year by Astorians looking to establish an inland fur post, contributing to their selection of a more northerly site at Fort Okanogan.

Similarly, standard Spanish is not based on the speech of Madrid, but on the one of educated speakers from more northerly areas like Castile and León.

Unlike in more northerly latitudes, temperatures in the tropics vary primarily with elevation instead of with the season.

January and February are more cloudy, with occasional cold fronts followed by dry northerly winds.

An example is the Hawaiian Islands, from Hawaii to Kure, which then extends beneath the sea surface in a more northerly direction as the Emperor Seamounts.

He then headed south to Shiraz, a large, flourishing city spared the destruction wrought by Mongol invaders on many more northerly towns.

Finally free from financial problems, the D & RGW now possessed a direct route from Denver to Salt Lake City ( the detour south through Pueblo and Tennessee Pass was no longer required for direct service ), but a problem still remained: for transcontinental service, the Union Pacific's more northerly line was far less mountainous ( and, as a result, several hours faster ).

In Egyptian inscriptions Amar and Amurru ( Amorites ) are applied strictly to the more northerly mountain region east of Phoenicia, extending to the Orontes.

At this time the Canaanite area seemed divided between two confederacies, one centred upon Tel Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley, the second on the more northerly city of Kadesh on the Orontes River.

However, between Hancock in western Maryland and Washington, Pennsylvania, I-70 takes a more northerly path to follow the Pennsylvania Turnpike ( also designated as I-76 ) across the mountains between Breezewood and New Stanton, where I-70 turns west to rejoin the National Road's route ( and U. S 40 ) near Washington, Pennsylvania.

The more northerly and less degraded of the two, called Tirawa, is roughly comparable to the basin Odysseus on Tethys.

In contrast, Sapporo's heaviest snowfall occurred in 1939, and that was only, and more northerly Wakkanai has recorded similar maxima.

Opposition came from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, and from others in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea who feared higher water levels as a result of the closure, and others who doubted whether it was financially practical.

Of those two parts, the more northerly belongs to the Cantabrian Mountains and continues to the city of Burgos ; the mountains of the east and southeast are part of the Sistema Ibérico.

The distribution is more northerly than the very closely related Common Nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos.

Only the segment between Granger and Salt Lake City was not part of the new numbering plan ; U. S. 30 was assigned to a more northerly route toward Pocatello, Idaho.

It grows on both northerly and southerly aspects but is more common on the warmer southerly aspects.

From this point the party might still have succeeded had they gone up the Rio Grande to its source, or gone by a more northerly route, but the route they took brought them to the very top of Mesa Mountain.

Pizarro had in the meantime returned to Quito by a more northerly route, by then with only 80 men left alive.

One attraction, apart from the sheer numbers and variety of bird passing through on migration, is the opportunity to see more northerly breeding species such as Blackpoll Warbler before they move on.

Though not nearly as rich biologically as the more northerly Stirling Range, there exist ten endemic species of plant in the Porongurup Range, the best known being the mountain villarsia ( Villarsia caltbifolia ).

These, however, might be too deep in wet weather, in which case the more northerly routes would have shallower crossings, but more of them.

The River Liffey bends at Leixlip from a predominantly east-west direction to a southwesterly route, and this point also marks the change from urban development to more agricultural land usage.

Extending approximately 15, 500 kilometres ( 9, 600 mi ) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the northern extent of the circumpolar Southern Ocean at 60 ° S ( older definitions extend it to Antarctica's Ross Sea ), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5 ° N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19, 800 kilometres ( 12, 300 mi ) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia – halfway across the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moon.

Thus, it was possible that an east-west line extending east from Lake Michigan's southern tip may have intersected Lake Erie somewhere east of Maumee Bay, or worse, may not have intersected the lake at all ; the farther south that Lake Michigan actually extended, the more land Ohio would lose, perhaps even the entire Lake Erie shoreline west of Pennsylvania.

The main difference between these is that orogen-parallel ( north-south ) transport was more prevalent in the Benambra Terrane, whereas convergent east-west transport orthogonal to the orogen was dominant in the Whitelaw Terrane.

The system spreads for more than 50 kilometres ( east-west ) and covers the following cities: Będzin, Bytom, Chorzów, Czeladź, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Gliwice, Katowice, Mysłowice, Ruda Śląska, Siemianowice Śląskie, Sosnowiec, Świętochłowice, and Zabrze.

See equation of time for a more detailed description of the east-west characteristics of the analemma.

Both Scott's and Marshall's towns were orthogonal grids with north-south and east-west streets, but plan became still more complex when a later addition by Scott included Veto Street, which ran parallel to the railroad and at an odd angle to the earlier streets.

Because it sits at the junction of three states and on the routes of several north-south and east-west highways, Portsmouth has become a distribution point for more than just the local area.

The railroad tracks were not in a true east-west line, however, so the original town is askew with the map ; the newer part of Cheney was built more to the compass.

Along with the New Haven Line of Metro-North Railroad and Interstate 95, US Route 1, known locally as the Boston Post Road, or, more commonly, the Post Road, runs east-west through the southern side of town.

Proceeding westward, accuracy became more of a consideration than rapid sale, and the system was simplified by establishing one major north-south line ( principal meridian ) and one east-west ( base ) line that control descriptions for an entire state or more.

A more ambitious proposal named " Superlink " was proposed in 2004, at an estimated cost of £ 13bn, including additional infrastructure work outside London: as well as Crossrail's proposed east-west london tunnel, additional lines would connect conurbations outside London, including lines to Cambridge, Ipswich, Southend, Pitsea, Reading, Basingstoke and Northampton.

New York State Route 12, another east-west route, is more northerly and follows the St. Lawrence River.

Continuing westward, the Westway runs parallel with the main-line railway for about before turning south-west at Westbourne Park and crossing the railway to run immediately adjacent to London Underground's Hammersmith and City Line for as far as Ladbroke Grove station, after which it returns to a more east-west alignment for the to the elevated roundabout junction with the West Cross Route ( A3220 ) and flyover that takes vehicles high above the roundabout and Wood Lane ( A219 ) to return to ground level and connect to the end of Western Avenue.

Crossrail is an entirely new east-west railway, scheduled to open in 2018 ; the Thameslink programme is a major upgrade to the existing north-south Thameslink route, enabling longer and more frequent trains, scheduled to be completed in 2018.

The two largest, near-vertical fissures trend generally east-west and extend more than 100 feet below the bottom of the key trench.

Today, Wotonga forms the core of Admiralty House and the building's 180-degree, east-west panoramic sight-lines are even more spectacular than they were in Colonel Gibbes ' day, owing to the subsequent high-rise growth of Sydney's CBD.

But in a more usual and sophisticated method they had a wall made along east-west direction close to the yakhchal ( ice pit ).

In 1888, with the completion of the nearby Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge providing east-west rail service across the Hudson, Poughkeepsie became even more important to regional rail transportation.

He was one of the early theorists of the new and more formal garden à la française, and he laid out a series of squares along an east-west alley closed at the east end by the Medici Fountain, and a rectangle of parterres with broderies of flowers and hedges in front of the palace.

Langtry began to decline after the highway was moved slightly north in the early 1900s for a more direct east-west route.

The 1. 7-litre version featured an ' east-west ' ( transversely ) mounted engine, but Renault had no gearbox suitable for a more powerful transverse engine: accordingly, faster versions featured longitudinally mounted ( north south ) engines.

The 1. 7-litre version featured an ' east-west ' ( transversely ) mounted engine, but Renault had no gearbox suitable for a more powerful transverse engine: accordingly, faster versions featured longitudinally mounted ( north south ) engines.