The archipelago of the Azores is located in the middle of the northern hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean and extends along a west-northwest to east-southeast orientation ( between 36. 5 °– 40 ° North latitudes and 24. 5 °– 31. 5 ° West longitudes ) in an area approximately 600 km wide.

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

It is also visible near the horizon from tropical latitudes of the northern hemisphere for a few hours every night during the northern winter and spring.

However, the precession of the equinoxes gradually lowered its stars below the European horizon, and they were eventually forgotten by the inhabitants of northern latitudes.

Therefore, coupled with the amount of skin covered by long head hair, these factors seem to militate against the adaptive usefulness of straight hair at northern latitudes.

These ideas can be countered by the fact that during the winter, the time of year in which UV light is most scarce at northern latitudes, the ground is often covered with white snow.

However, kestrels may more often prey on lizards at southern latitudes, in northern latitudes the kestrel is found to more often deliver lizards to their nestlings during midday and also with increasing ambient temperature.

Longships were also double-ended, the symmetrical bow and stern allowing the ship to reverse direction quickly without having to turn around ; this trait proved particularly useful in northern latitudes where icebergs and sea ice posed hazards to navigation.

Lyra is visible from the northern hemisphere from spring through autumn, and nearly overhead, in temperate latitudes, during the summer months.

Despite its northern location, the climate is relatively mild compared to other locations in similar latitudes, or even somewhat farther south, mainly because of the Gulf Stream.

Like its descendants, it inhabited mostly northern latitudes, and was probably well-adapted to the cold.

Several expeditions set out to find the way, generally with whaling ships, already commonly used in the cold northern latitudes.

The observed behavior is very different: most of the ozone is found in the mid-to-high latitudes of the northern and southern hemispheres, and the highest levels are found in the spring, not summer, and the lowest in the autumn, not winter in the northern hemisphere.

However, the overall column amounts are greater in the northern hemisphere high latitudes than in the southern hemisphere high latitudes.

Located in the northern and middle latitudes a of the Northern Hemisphere, most of Russia is much closer to the North Pole than to the equator.

The greatest diversity of scorpions in the Northern Hemisphere is to be found in the subtropical areas lying between latitudes 23 ° N and 38 ° N. Above these latitudes, the diversity decreases, with the northernmost occurrence of scorpions being the northern scorpion Paruroctonus boreus at 50 ° N.

Some species breed in northern latitudes during the summer, then migrate to warmer climes for the winter.

Common uses of the sextant include sighting the sun at solar noon and sighting Polaris at night, to find one's latitude ( in northern latitudes ).

From mid-southern latitudes, it can be seen low above the northern horizon during the Southern Hemisphere winter.

" Millstone Grit " is an informal term for a succession of gritstones which are to be found in the Peak District and Pennines of northern England.

Plagiaulacids, an informal suborder, are the most basal of this order, and ranged from the Middle Jurassic Period to the Lower Cretaceous Period of the northern hemisphere.

The informal northern end of Stora Nygatan was thus connected to the newly created square Mynttorget by Myntgatan, and the slope Storkyrkobrinken was widened.

Inhabited since prehistoric times but first mentioned in the 14th century, it developed as a trading town in northern Wallachia, serving as an informal residence for various Wallachian Princes until the 18th century.

It was located in present-day southeastern Slovakia and northern Hungary ; today Turňa is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory in Slovakia.

The residential areas in the northern suburbs are mainly formal, with no significant areas of informal housing, or housing that lacks a permanent structure.

The expanded informal version of the motto (" From Sea to Sea to Sea ") is used in speeches and writings about Canada, representing inclusiveness toward northern residents and the growing significance of the Arctic in Canada's political and economic future.

The northern boundary of the hilly area is Cieneguitas Creek, which flows down the topographic expression of the More Ranch Fault ; this ravine also helps define the informal northern boundary of the suburb.

An example of this is Sanskrit, which was considered the proper way to speak in northern India, but only accessible by the upper class, and Prakrit which was the common ( and informal or vernacular ) speech at the time.

Åboland and Turunmaa are also informal names of the region, but in this context Särkisalo ( Swedish Finby ) is normally included and in the Finnish name Turunmaa also the northern Finnish-speaking part of the archipelago.

The southern portion of this area was transformed into a park and ride lot, while its northern part was developed into an informal park, promenade, and open space.

The sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.

Greece continues to reject the use of the term Macedonia or " Republic of Macedonia " to refer to its northern neighbour.

The term " English " or " Welsh " longbow is a modern usage to distinguish these bows from other longbows, though in fact identical bows were used across northern and western Europe ; indeed a very large proportion of yew bowstaves were imported from Spain from the fourteenth century onward, if not earlier.

This article uses the term " Mandarin " in the sense used by linguists, referring to the diverse group of Mandarin dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China, which Chinese linguists call Guānhuà.

By extension, the term " Old Mandarin " is used by linguists to refer to the northern dialects recorded in materials from the Yuan dynasty.

In northern France, other terms for this type of dance included " ronde " and its diminutives " rondet ", " rondel ", and " rondelet " from which the more modern music term " rondeau " derives.

The term " Epipaleolithic " is often used for areas outside northern Europe but was also the preferred synonym used by French archaeologists until the 1960s.

In the archaeology of northern Europe, for example for archaeological sites in Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, Ukraine, and Russia, the term " Mesolithic " is almost always used.

The term ' northern blot ' actually refers specifically to the capillary transfer of RNA from the electrophoresis gel to the blotting membrane.

The term Quaternary (" fourth ") was proposed by Giovanni Arduino in 1759 for alluvial deposits in the Po river valley in northern Italy.

The term red tide is also sometimes used to describe harmful algal blooms on the northern east coast of the United States, particularly in the Gulf of Maine.

The name refers to the area of Logudoro ( term originated as corrupt blending of the kingdom's name of Logu de Torres ) in which it is spoken, mainly a northern subregion of the island of Sardinia which mainly defers to Ozieri ( Othieri ) and Nuoro ( Nùgoro ) for culture and language, as well as history, with important particularities in the western area, where the most important town is Ittiri.

As the knowledge of world geography of the Greeks broadened, the term came to be more restricted in its application: Thrace designated the lands bordered by the Danube on the north, by the Euxine Sea ( Black Sea ) on the east, by northern Macedonia in the south and by the Illyrian lands ( i. e. Illyria ) to the west.

There is no clear southern boundary but the term is generally used to include the San Luis Hills of southern Colorado and the Taos Plateau of northern New Mexico.

Similarly, in modern, colloquial Portuguese, the term " Mouro " was primarily used as a designation for North Africans and secondarily as a derogatory and ironic term by northern Portuguese to refer to the inhabitants of the southern parts of the country ( Lisbon, Alentejo and Algarve ).

More likely etymologies include northern UK dialect naffhead, naffin, or naffy, a simpleton or blockhead ; niffy-naffy, inconsequential, stupid, or Scots nyaff, a term of contempt for any unpleasant or objectionable person.

Wu Hu () was a Chinese term for the northern non-Chinese nomadic tribes which caused the Wu Hu uprising, and established the Sixteen Kingdoms from 304 to 439 AD.

In northern European languages that have been less influenced by French, the plants ' name usually derives from esparceto, the Provençal term for the similar-looking and closely related sweetvetches ( Hedysarum ).

The term refers to rare soul music that was played by DJs at nightclubs in northern England.

Tortosa is located at 12 metres above sea level, by the Ebre river, protected on its northern side by the mountains of the Cardó Massif, of which Buinaca, one of the highest peaks, is located within Tortosa's municipal term.

From this time " Guyenne and Gascony " was a common term corresponding roughly to modern northern Aquitaine.

The Bear Clan is strongly associated with the kaǧi, a term that denotes the raven and northern crow.