At the equator, one degree of longitude and latitude both cover about 111 kilometers, or just under 70 miles. When we get away from the equator, this starts getting tricky. Longitude lines.

1. The distance of each degree of latitude is approximately 111 km. 2. The distance of each degree at the equator is 110.567 km. 3.

Distance from Saint Lucia to Florida: 1,482 miles. Bahamas: The Bahamas is a group of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean that extend from north of Cuba to east of West ...

Latitude and Longitude A globe has two fixed points—the North Pole and the South Pole. An imaginary line equator is drawn in such a way that at all points it lies exactly halfway between the two ...

Dave Taylor Latitude is a measurement of the distance north or south of the equator, with the North Pole being 90 degrees north, and the South Pole being, you guessed it, 90 degrees south.

Once you've found the North Star it's simple to determine your latitude. 1. First, locate the Big Dipper, Ursa Major (called The Plough in the U.K.). 2. Find the two stars that make up the far end ...

Measuring the geographical address: The correct geographical address of any place is addressed by the combination of latitude and longitudinal lines; e.g. the geographical address of New Delhi is ...

Last month, I closed this column with a script that can return latitude/longitude values for two addresses, with the intent ultimately being to have the script calculate the distance between those two ...

Fig. 1: The “oopsie” FCC seal (left) versus the correct FCC seal (right). In the June 14, 1983, Broadcasting and Cable Bureau (BC, now the FCC Media Bureau) Docket 80-90 Report and Order (R&O), the ...

An ecological interpretation is that time and planning are emphasized in cultures with large seasonal influences located at a greater distance from the equator, where one needs to plan for the ...