We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...

To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, ...

CHILLICOTHE — While in everyday life most people use street addresses to find where they are going each location also has a unique latitude and longitude point. Take a look at some coordinates around ...

When you talk about location, name of city, state or country as a location descriptor with common landmark, but have you wonder how places are located on the globe. It is imaginary lines such as ...

IN this concise little book the art of navigation is treated from an elementary standpoint. Commencing by explaining the meaning of a few mathematical expressions, including triangles, the author goes ...

Last week we talked about the imaginary lines of longitude (meridians) and latitude (parallels) that create a grid over the entire surface of the Earth. Today we will focus on the system that has been ...

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 poles. It divides the earth ...