What is the latitude and longitude of Machu Picchu?
13.1631° S, 72.5450° W
What are the coordinates of Petra Jordan?
30.3285° N, 35.4444° E
What is the latitude and longitude of the White House?
38.8977° N, 77.0365° W
How many miles are in 1 degree of longitude at the equator?
60 geographical miles
Is north latitude or longitude?
The North Pole is at 90 degrees latitude (or 90.0° N) and the south poles is at -90 degrees latitude (or 90.0° S). Latitude degrees with a – sign indicate a location in the southern hemisphere and degrees with a positive number are located in the northern hemisphere. Lines of longitude run from pole to pole.
What is the 0 degree latitude line called?
The Equator
Why is North Pole 90 degree?
It is the precise point of the intersection of the Earth’s axis and the Earth’s surface. From the North Pole, all directions are south. Its latitude is 90 degrees north, and all lines of longitude meet there (as well as at the South Pole, on the opposite end of the Earth).
Which is the longest line of all latitudes?
Why there are 180 latitudes and 360 longitudes?
A circle is divided into 4 quarters of 90 degrees each. If you stood above the earth and looked down on the north pole from above, you would see the complete circle of the equator. So longitude goes from zero to 360 degrees. Latitude lines are parallel to the equator which has latitude = zero degrees.
Why latitudes are 90 degrees and longitudes as 180 degrees?
In measuring latitude, one begins at the Poles, which are at zero degrees and 180 degrees, similar to the Equator, only they are drawn at right angles to the Equator itself. So, if one measures from the North Pole at zero degrees to the Equator, one measures 90 degrees.
Why are there only 180 latitudes?
“Longitude” goes 360 degrees, 180 East to 180 West, to cover the entire 360 degrees around the equator. But if latitude did the same thing, every point on the earth would be covered twice! So latitude only has to cover 180 degrees, from the north pole to the south pole.
Why there is no higher latitude than 90 degree not a 90 degree south?
Latitude is the angular distance from the plane of the Equator. Latitude only has to cover 180 degrees, from the North Pole to the South Pole. All circles make a maximum angle of 900 from the plane of the Equator. Therefore the maximum, latitude is 900 N in the Northern hemisphere and 900 S in the Southern Hemisphere.
Are there 180 or 181 latitudes?
Longitude lines runs from North to south pole means a complete circles and hence covers 360 degrees and that is why there are 360 longitudes. Each section from equator to pole is 90 degrees and two poles have 2 quarters of circle/globe hence 90X2 180 lattitudes. adding the Equator it becomes 181 latitudes.
Why are poles 90 degrees near Equator?
Answer: But if latitude did the same thing, every point on the earth would be covered twice! So latitude only has to cover 180 degrees, from the north pole to the south pole. Taking the equator to be 0 degrees, the north pole is 180/2= 90 degrees N, the south pole is 180/2= 90 degrees S.
What if the Earth’s tilt was 10 degrees?
If the Earth’s tilt were at 10 degrees instead of 23.5 degrees, then the Sun path through the year would stay closer to the equator. So the new tropics would be between 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south, and the Arctic and Antarctic circles would be at 80 degrees north and 80 degrees south.
At what degree do you find the two poles and the equator?
Latitude is measured as the angle from the equator, to the Earth’s center, to your position on the Earth’s surface (Figure2. 1.1). It is expressed as degrees north or south of the equator (0o), with the poles at a latitude of 90o.