Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home

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The issue then becomes, where is 60 degrees south latitude? The Southern Ocean stretches north from Antarctica’s coast to 60 degrees south latitude, roughly corresponding to the Antarctic Treaty zone and the length of the Antarctic Convergence. Here comes the wind! Oh no, it's blowing his house down! The prevailing westerlies are powerful and strong, so run, little piggy, run! It looks like he's made it! Wow, that was close! Lesson Summary GPS and navigation tools are developed to help drivers navigate every state and city. The latitude and longitude points are the built in function of these GPS systems.

Accordingly, "north of 60" is an expression often used for the territories, although parts of Nunavut (the islands in Hudson Bay and James Bay) are located south of the 60th parallel, and parts of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador are located north, to the east of Hudson Bay. A 1990s TV show on CBC about life in the Northwest Territories was called North of 60. Longitudinally, New York is around the same at 73 degrees West as most of the country of Chile. Interestingly, South America is almost entirely east of the United States. The time zones range from UTC -05:00 (same as Eastern time) to UTC -02:00. Photo by Larissa Paschoal Latitude is the angle between the equatorial plane and the line extending from the center of the Earth to a certain point on its surface. It references the north-south position on the Earth. It's represented by circles of latitude, or parallels - the lines that go around the globe. The central line of latitude is called the Equator. It has a latitude of 0 degrees. The maximum value of latitude is 90 degrees - found at the poles. Here's another example of calculating the distance with longitude and latitude. Let's look at each point's coordinates:

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The parallel defines the northern boundary of the Antarctic Treaty System and the Southern Ocean (though other organizations and nations, especially Australia, have different definitions). It also serves as the southern limit of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones in the South Pacific and Latin America. What is the name for 0 degrees longitude? In Canada, the 60th parallel forms the southern mainland boundary of the northern territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut with the western provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Latitude increases as you go North, making the Northern Hemisphere positive latitude and the Southern Hemisphere negative latitude. Paris, for example, is at about 48, 2. Latitude usually comes first in the pairing. Latitude runs between 90 degrees South (-90) and 90 degrees North, both extremes coming at the Earth’s poles. The movement of air across the surface of the Earth is called wind. On the surface of the Earth, there are permanent high and low-pressure zones. These pressure zones are created due to the uneven heating of the Earth by the Sun. These pressure zones are the Equatorial Low-Pressure Zone (also called the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)), Subtropical High-Pressure Zone, and Polar High-Pressure Zone. Wind blows in a permanent pattern across the surface of the Earth from the high to low-pressure zones. These are called prevailing winds or planetary winds. This zone lies from 23.5ºN to 23.5ºS. This is the region that receives the highest amount of sunlight but is not necessarily the hottest zone, with mostly moderate temperatures in this region.

Longitude, on the other hand, refers to a east-west position on the Earth. Lines of longitude, or meridians connect the North and the South Pole. They extend to the east and west of the Prime Meridian, reaching up to 180 degrees. All meridians have the same length - 12,429.9 miles (20,003.93 km). The meridian 80 degrees east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, passing through Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica. The 80th meridian east and the 100th meridian west make a big circle. What is the world’s most northern significant city? Find sources: "List of countries by latitude"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) You've surely heard of the Three Little Pigs fairy tale, right? But you probably didn't hear about the Three Little Pigs and the Wind Belts. Don't worry, though; I'll tell you the story. But before I start, I should fill you in on wind belts, or wind generated by the earth's rotation and unequal heating from the sun. We'll get into the details of that definition when we examine the three main wind belts: the polar easterlies, the tropical easterlies, and the prevailing westerlies. Oh yeah, all of our piggies inhabit the Northern Hemisphere, so even though we'll mention the Southern Hemisphere, the focus will be on the Northern Hemisphere.

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We show the gps coordinates in different format, so that it is compatible with other tools that you may wish to use. The movement of air across the surface of the Earth from high to low-pressure zones is called wind. The permanent air pressure zones create permanent patterns of wind, called prevailing winds. There are three types of prevailing winds: polar easterlies, westerlies and easterlies or trade winds. Due to the rotation of the Earth, all winds on the surface of the Earth are deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This is called the Coriolis effect.