Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.

Optical technology, such as the telescope, sextant and other devices that use telescopes, allowed for accurate surveying of land and the ability of mapmakers and navigators to find their latitude by measuring angles to the North Star at night or the sun at noon.

North of 50 ° south latitude, 86 % of the main basin is covered by pelagic sediments, of which more than half is globigerina ooze.

North of 20 ° south latitude the minimum surface temperature is 22 ° C ( 72 ° F ), exceeding 28 ° C ( 82 ° F ) to the east.

The Firth of Clyde lies between 55 and 56 degrees north, at the same latitude as Labrador in Canada and north of the Aleutian Islands, but the influence of the North Atlantic Drift — the northern extension of the Gulf Stream — ameliorates the winter weather and the area enjoys a mild, damp oceanic climate.

Because of its wide range of latitude and seasonal winds, Japan has a variety of climates, with a latitude range often compared to that of the east coast of North America, from Nova Scotia to the U. S. state of Georgia.

It defines geodetic latitude 90 ° North, as well as the direction of true north.

One of the earliest expeditions to set out with the explicit intention of reaching the North Pole was that of British naval officer William Edward Parry, who in 1827 reached latitude 82 ° 45 ′ North.

The pair reached latitude 86 ° 14 ′ North before they abandoned the attempt and turned southwards, eventually reaching Franz Josef Land.

The North Equatorial Current, driven westward along latitude 15 ° N by the trade winds, turns north near the Philippines to become the warm Japan or Kuroshio Current.

The edge of the Frigid Zone ought to be as far south from the North Pole in latitude as the Summer Tropic is from the Equator.

Fourth, and perhaps most significantly, they were able to reach 77 ° 45 ' North latitude, a record which held for 236 years.

For example, data in latitude / longitude if the datum is the North American Datum of 1983 is denoted by ' GCS North American 1983 '.

Nordenskiöld's line tends to run to the north of Köppen's near the west coasts of the Northern Hemisphere continents, south of it in the interior sections, and at about the same latitude along the east coasts of both Asia and North America.

Its charter was laid out in a 1799 ukase, by the new Tsar Paul I, which granted the company monopolistic control over trade in the Aleutian Islands and the North America mainland, south to 55 ° north latitude.

In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88 ° 23 ′ S, 97 geographical miles ( 112 statute miles, 190 km ) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time.

Scott chose Shackleton to accompany Wilson and himself on the expedition's southern journey, a march southwards to achieve the highest possible latitude in the direction of the South Pole.

This march was not a serious attempt on the Pole, although the attainment of a high latitude was of great importance to Scott, and the inclusion of Shackleton indicated a high degree of personal trust.

On 9 January 1909 Shackleton and three companions ( Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams ) reached a new Farthest South latitude of 88 ° 23 ′ S, a point only from the Pole.

The geography of Chile is extremely diverse as the country extends from a latitude of 17 ° South to Cape Horn at 56 ° ( if Chilean claims on Antarctica are included Chile would extend to the South Pole ) and from the ocean on the west to Andes on the east.

At geodetic latitude 48. 46791 … degrees ( e. g., Lèves, Alsace, France ), the radius R is 20000 / π ≈ 6, 366. 1977 …, namely the radius of a perfect sphere for which the meridian arc length from the equator to the North Pole is exactly 10000 km, the originally proposed definition of the meter.

It is straight down at the North Magnetic Pole and rotates upwards as the latitude decreases until it is horizontal () at the magnetic equator.

For celestial navigation dhow sailors have traditionally used the kamal, an observation device that determines latitude by finding the angle of the Pole Star above the horizon.

Above the Arctic Circle, from the spring equinox to the autumnal equinox ( depending on latitude ), the sun can shine for 24 hours a day ; at the extreme ( that is, the Pole ), it rises and sets only once a year, possibly leading to the erroneous conclusion that a " day " for such persons is a year long, and therefore that living a thousand days would be the same as living a thousand years.

The vertical can be estimated to about 2 ° and, in the northern hemisphere, observing the Pole Star and using a protractor can give the observer's geographic latitude, up to 1 degree of accuracy.

* The latitude of the North Pole and the South Pole are 90 degrees.

The latitude ranges for the Roaring Forties and similar winds are not consistent, shifting towards the South Pole in the southern summer, and towards the Equator in the southern winter.

The Arctic has numerous definitions, including the region north of the Arctic Circle currently ( Epoch 2010 at 66 ° 33 ' 44 " N ), or the region north of 60 ° north latitude, or the region from the North Pole south to the timberline.

In order to avoid negative numbers in the input data, the system also specifies that latitude is measured from the South Pole to the North Pole, and longitude measured eastward from the antimeridian of Greenwich, giving the Prime Meridian a false easting of 180 ° and the equator a false northing of 90 °.

The point is at a latitude **yl, and the platform is at an error in heading east.

On average, the Atlantic is the saltiest major ocean ; surface water salinity in the open ocean ranges from 33 to 37 parts per thousand ( 3. 3 – 3. 7 %) by mass and varies with latitude and season.

The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.

In 2012, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator.

The Arctic Circle is currently drifting northwards at a speed of about per year ; see Circle of latitude for more information.

For the purposes of the treaty system, Antarctica is defined as all of the land and ice shelves south of 60 ° S latitude.

The climate is typical of tropical islands of similar latitude.

The climate in Abadan is arid and similar to Baghdad's, but slightly hotter due to Abadan's lower latitude.

Much of the ACC transport is carried in this front, which is defined as the latitude at which a subsurface salinity minimum or a thick layer of unstratified Subantarctic Mode Water first appears, allowed by temperature dominating density stratification.

The bequest stipulated: " It is especially desired that students competing for prizes shall be allowed the widest possible latitude, and that the new, the unusual, and the radical shall be especially encouraged.

This is easiest to describe in terms of lines of latitude and longitude-the spines lie on the intersections between five of the former, symmetric about an equator, and eight of the latter, spaced uniformly.

In his Swedish paper " Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer " he reports on experiments to check that the freezing point is independent of latitude ( and of atmospheric pressure ).

Most of the Antarctic region is situated south of 60 ° S latitude parallel, and is governed in accordance with the international legal regime of the Antarctic Treaty System.

Armfeldt's country estate is bathed in the golden glow of perpetual summer sunset at this high latitude (" Night Waltz One and Two ").

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 20 ° E to 26 ° E longitude.

Situated between 11 ° 3 ' and 13 ° 5 ' north latitude, the Sudan-Sahel region is a transitional zone with regards to rainfall and temperature.

" 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 )).

The term circumpolar constellation is used for any constellation that, from a particular latitude on Earth, never sets below the horizon.

The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, and altitude, as well as nearby water bodies and their currents.

For instance, it is visible from Cancun or any other place at latitude 25 ° N or less at around 10 pm at the end of April.

Declination in astronomy is comparable to geographic latitude, projected onto the celestial sphere.

) Likewise, if a star is circumpolar for an observer at latitude, then it never rises above the horizon as seen by an observer at latitude −.