Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home

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Between 60 and 70 degrees north latitude, subarctic climates exist. This climate may be found over most of Canada and Alaska. Summers are mild and brief. Winters are severely cold and extremely lengthy. What is the Prime Meridian, and where is it located? But I also need to find out how far around the Earth he is, and how far down. To do that, I’ll use what’s called latitude and longitude.Lines of latitude run around the Earth like imaginary hoops and have numbers to show how many degrees north or south they are from the Equator. That difference between east and west is often quite marked and it stems from the ridge of hills that runs roughly north-south down the Shetland mainland. Propelled by the breeze, the foggy air warms up as it descends on the leeward side of the hills; it’s possible to watch the fog simply disappear as it rolls down the slope. Each year, there are many days, in summer especially, when this phenomenon (known to meteorologists as the Foehn effect) results in clear blue skies to the west of the hills while the east side of the islands – including the observatory – is blanketed in fog. The angular distance of a specific place, measured east or west from the zero meridian. It expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds. Surely New York City has a similar reality distortion field, causing it to appear better than other places of similar latitude? At 40 degrees North of the equator, the snowy-wintered New York is at a similar longitude to… Portugal, Spain, and the rest of the beautiful Mediterranean. To be fair, Sendai, Japan, is also around 40 degrees latitude, and it has nearly freezing temperatures in January.

Now, before our mid-latitude piggy has to deal with this wind, let's see how the prevailing westerlies form. Latitude, measured in degrees °, is the angle between a point on Earth and the Equator. Earth's Equator is an imaginary line which divides the planet horizontally exactly halfway between the South and North pole. 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. The other lines show how many degrees east or west of this you are. If I want to see where a place is in the world, I just need to look at where the lines cross, and read the numbers.

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Between 1776 and 1950, the 60th parallel formed the southern limit of the Royal Greenland Trade Department's exclusive monopoly on trade near the Dano-Norwegian and later Danish colonies of Greenland (1776–1782) and South Greenland (1782–1950). [4] See also [ edit ] Latitude. The north-south location between the poles is measured by latitude lines. The North Pole is 90 degrees north, while the South Pole is 90 degrees south. The equator is defined as 0 degrees. Latitude lines are sometimes referred to as parallels since they are all parallel to one another. At 60 degrees north latitude, what sea is it? Latitude is the number of degrees north or south of the equator, the imaginary line that runs horizontally through the Earth.

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? The observatory - one of only three staffed specialist observatories in Britain - provides a wide range of data, not only to do with weather. It’s run jointly by the Meteorological Office and the British Geological Survey, and weather data has been recorded here since 1919. The Rolling Stones, Proust’s madeleines, Vidal Sassoon’s specs, girls – not the sorts of things you expect to find in a memoir of trainspotting? Well, your prejudices are showing, and you clearly missed Whittaker’s book on its first appearance, but you can catch up in this revised edition, published 20 years on, in which he captures “all the lovable dottiness” of a hobby he took up in 1964 after primary school, between the steam age and the InterCity. Like the 50-year-old timetables he still has at home, “it’s a travel guide to a long-lost land where trains were slow and the sandwiches defiantly unwrapped”. MKAnswers to Related Questions What city has a latitude of 60 degrees north and a longitude of 30 degrees east? If you want to get coordinates in DMS, take only the integer - these are the minutes. Go to the third point. 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.

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. The Prime Meridian, like the equator, is an imaginary line that divides the planet into eastern and western hemispheres. The Greenwich Meridian is another name for it. The Prime Meridian is regarded 0 degrees longitude as it passes through Greenwich, England. At 80 degrees south and 60 degrees east, what continent do you find? New York is on the East Coast, but London is on the ‘West Coast,’ with its winter air coming mostly from the ocean rather than the continent. When you consider that New York is substantially closer to the equator than Britain (it is at a far lower latitude – 40 degrees North vs. 60 degrees North), it’s easy to see why. At 45 degrees north latitude, what cities are there?The Latitude and Longitude app allows you to get or share map coordinates of your desired location. The latitude, sometimes called a parallel because each line is equally spaced, signifies the location north or south, relative to the equator. Latitude is expressed as degrees north or degrees south. The equator, which divides the earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, has a latitude of zero. The North Pole has the latitude of 90 degrees north, while the South Pole's latitude is around 90 degrees south. For example, let's convert the Sydney Opera House coordinates from DD to DMS. The coordinates are -33.858611 151.214167. Uh oh, and here come those polar easterlies! The little piggy is taking shelter but can't help but notice the winds are cold and dry, and, thankfully for our polar piggy, not very strong. So all is well in the north. Tropical Easterlies