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- ...the prime meridian to 180 degrees, halfway around the globe. In some uses, longitude is measured as positive angles east of the prime meridian and negative angl ...in [[latitude]], the parallels become smaller, and the length of a degree longitude becomes smaller.1 KB (199 words) - 15:28, 8 February 2008
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- 245 bytes (35 words) - 05:31, 9 September 2009
- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Longitude]]. Needs checking by a human.660 bytes (83 words) - 18:09, 11 January 2010
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- ...the prime meridian to 180 degrees, halfway around the globe. In some uses, longitude is measured as positive angles east of the prime meridian and negative angl ...in [[latitude]], the parallels become smaller, and the length of a degree longitude becomes smaller.1 KB (199 words) - 15:28, 8 February 2008
- Angular coordinates on a sphere: longitude angle φ, colatitude angle θ116 bytes (14 words) - 03:44, 13 July 2009
- ...th Pole]] to the [[South Pole]] that connects all locations with a given [[longitude]]. Each is half of a [[great circle]] on the Earth's surface. ...he '''Prime Meridian''', and is established by convention as the origin of longitude measurement.589 bytes (90 words) - 18:58, 10 November 2007
- ...o the South Pole that connects all locations running along it with a given longitude.180 bytes (28 words) - 05:35, 9 September 2009
- The quantities of latitude and longitude which define the position of a point on the surface of the Earth with respe182 bytes (28 words) - 07:29, 30 September 2009
- ...="stern">[http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm Latitude and Longitude] From a [[NASA]] website page</ref> ...is equal to about 111 [[kilometer]]s (69 [[mile]]s), just as a degree of [[longitude]] along the equator is. However, [[Earth]] is not a perfect [[sphere]] but1,016 bytes (156 words) - 19:59, 19 October 2009
- A system which allows small electronic devices to determine their location (Longitude, Latitude, and Altitude) as well as time with an accuracy of up to a few ce285 bytes (44 words) - 19:19, 1 June 2008
- Its latitude and longitude are: 73.5333 N, 80.7111 E.425 bytes (64 words) - 21:58, 12 December 2007
- ...e great circle containing the arbitrarily-chosen 0 and 180-degree lines of longitude.482 bytes (73 words) - 21:42, 24 January 2021
- {{r|Longitude}}506 bytes (65 words) - 16:59, 11 January 2010
- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Longitude]]. Needs checking by a human.660 bytes (83 words) - 18:09, 11 January 2010
- {{r|Longitude}}774 bytes (101 words) - 18:00, 11 January 2010
- {{r|Longitude}}796 bytes (110 words) - 09:39, 6 August 2023
- Longitude (abbreviation: Long., [[λ]], or [[lambda]]) is the angle east or west of a ...on in the [[United Kingdom|UK]]) has been chosen as the international zero-longitude reference line, the [[Prime Meridian]]. Places to the east are in the easte5 KB (691 words) - 11:52, 2 February 2023
- ...itory of the U.S. The island is located at a latitude of 15.25° north and longitude of 145.75° east, about 200 km (120 mi) north of Guam. The island is approx918 bytes (142 words) - 17:36, 6 March 2024
- ...rst day of the new month. Secondly those dates are determined by the sun's longitude as a multiple of 30 degrees. These dates are termed as Principal terms and ...s longitude is 270 degrees and the principle term 12 occurs when the sun's longitude is 300 degrees. Five of these rotations a the 60-year cycle which is also i7 KB (1,134 words) - 13:17, 8 November 2012
- longitude=100.7| !width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Longitude5 KB (648 words) - 18:18, 19 April 2024
- The [[meridian]]s (lines of equal longitude) are shown as equally spaced, parallel vertical lines. The [[parallel of la2 KB (294 words) - 10:09, 4 September 2009
- ...of [[Armenia]]. The summit is 5,165 meters (16,945 feet), latitude 39.7 N, longitude 44.3 E. A smaller cone, Little Ararat (3896 meters) rises just southeast o2 KB (352 words) - 18:42, 3 March 2024
- {{r|Longitude}}3 KB (417 words) - 07:29, 24 April 2024
- ...t 35 degrees 15 minutes of North latitude and 24 degrees 45 minutes East longitude.3 KB (419 words) - 07:30, 10 August 2010
- The practice of specifying locations on earth using [[latitude]], [[longitude]] and [[altitude]] is a version of spherical polar coordinates. The angle φ is the ''longitude angle'' (also known as the ''azimuth angle'').27 KB (4,267 words) - 10:14, 8 April 2023
- ...arily to change the walk rate — the rate at which the planetocentric longitude changed with each orbit, and the periapsis was raised to 357 km on 20 July ...[[Chryse Planitia]] (named Gold Field) at 22.697° N latitude and 48.222° W longitude at a reference altitude of −2.69 km relative to a reference ellipsoid wit6 KB (935 words) - 07:34, 9 June 2009
- ...for stars will directly correlate with that of earth and right ascension (longitude) correlates to a sphere that circumscribes earth’s orbital path around So3 KB (526 words) - 18:43, 20 December 2007
- ...and lying between the 160th degree east longitude and the 45th degree east longitude, is hereby declared to be accepted by the Commonwealth as a Territory under8 KB (1,115 words) - 19:15, 4 September 2008
- ...mbolism as a curved slab formed by hand as a piece of craft, to mirror the longitude and latitude members of the curved roof.3 KB (532 words) - 23:21, 14 September 2013
- ...S. states (Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming) exclusively define by latitude and longitude lines.4 KB (601 words) - 09:30, 8 August 2023
- ..., the player has to call airstrikes using an electronic map, adjusting the longitude and latitude with two dials.4 KB (664 words) - 08:42, 15 July 2013
- ...es, most 1 hour apart from adjacent zones, and approximately 15 degrees of longitude in width. The boundaries of time zones are designated by local convention o5 KB (746 words) - 15:13, 26 March 2016
- ...for stars will directly correlate with that of earth and right ascension (longitude) correlates to a sphere that circumscribes earth’s orbital path around So5 KB (794 words) - 18:54, 20 December 2007
- Amber House is situated at Latitude 41.2668 degrees South, Longitude 173.2931 degrees East from the [[Greenwich Meridian]] and its location may5 KB (720 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...he Earth is a perfect sphere, the length of a degree of [[latitude]] and [[longitude]] give the (same) length of the equator. Measurements of the length of a l5 KB (857 words) - 10:54, 22 March 2010
- ...h latitude, and 166 degrees 45 minutes East to 167 degrees 50 minutes East longitude. It is approximately 2500 miles southeast of [[Hawaii (U.S. state)]].6 KB (920 words) - 05:14, 31 March 2024
- | Longitude6 KB (862 words) - 07:23, 24 August 2010
- ...s at a [[latitude]] of around 40 degrees south of the [[equator]], and a [[longitude]] of around 179 degrees east of [[Greenwich meridian|Greenwich]]. Consequen6 KB (928 words) - 10:12, 28 February 2024
- ...fered by the British Government in 1714, to enable navigators to determine longitude within one-half of a degree, his timepiece managed to only vary by a minute12 KB (1,931 words) - 00:43, 10 February 2010
- ...st of [[Gabon]]. All places on Earth have geographic co-ordinates based on longitude and latitude.17 KB (2,763 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...keeping at sea, thus enabling a better determination of the geographical [[longitude]]; but also work in astronomy required accurate timekeeping. Huygens belie The geographical longitude problem had remained a constant reason for Huygens to continue work on cloc13 KB (2,050 words) - 03:41, 17 October 2013
- ...tailed account of Ireland in classical literature, giving the latitude and longitude of six promontories, fifteen river mouths, ten settlements and nine islands8 KB (1,246 words) - 10:10, 22 August 2009
- | Longitude9 KB (1,300 words) - 02:18, 7 April 2024
- ...nformation system|geographic information systems]] (combining latitude and longitude information with computer mapping programs)9 KB (1,333 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- ...°, with each degree further subdivided 60′ ([[minutes]]). To measure longitude, he suggested using eclipses to determine the relative difference in time.<20 KB (2,824 words) - 09:54, 15 September 2013
- ...([[GNSS]]) allows small electronic devices to determine their location ([[Longitude]], [[Latitude]], and [[Altitude]]) as well as time with an accuracy of up t10 KB (1,543 words) - 10:07, 28 February 2024
- * "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W", 1974 ([[Hugo Award|Hugo]] and [[Nebula Award]] winner for9 KB (1,178 words) - 23:04, 17 February 2009
- ...-axis has the usual [[spherical polar coordinates]] α ≡ φ (longitude angle) and β ≡ θ (colatitude angle) with respect to the sp16 KB (2,502 words) - 12:28, 24 March 2010
- ...ault, together with bad maps — the Spanish pilots were unable to calculate longitude or gauge the effects of the unfamiliar tides, and the Armada ships sailed m9 KB (1,498 words) - 15:31, 23 May 2014
- *Longitude: -63.53°11 KB (1,676 words) - 06:17, 9 June 2009
- ...or the variables. Location may be annotated by x,y, and z coordinates of [[longitude]], [[latitude]], and [[elevation (geography)|elevation]], or by other [[geo ...each of which may provide a different set of coordinates (e.g., latitude, longitude, elevation) for any given point on the earth's surface. The simplest model41 KB (6,343 words) - 17:02, 22 March 2024
- ...orce protection in those areas in the Russian Federation east of 100º East longitude. A Memorandum of Understanding signed between USEUCOM and USPACOM outlines15 KB (2,271 words) - 12:04, 31 March 2024
- Dolly Sods is located at latitude 38° 59' 45"N (38.996°), longitude 79° 22' 5"W (-79.368°) on a ridge crest that forms part of the Eastern C14 KB (2,240 words) - 12:53, 9 August 2023
- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|'''Latitude and longitude:''' [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=53.99445,-1.082153&ie=UTF8&ll=17 KB (2,621 words) - 20:16, 11 March 2024
- ...a description of the said River, and shall particularize the Latitude and Longitude of its mouth and of its Source. Duplicates of this Declaration ant of the S30 KB (5,208 words) - 13:05, 16 October 2010
- ...as parameters. The GLatLng is an object which specifies the latitude and longitude to be used as center point for the map. I have supplied the coordinates of24 KB (3,761 words) - 14:00, 18 February 2024
- ...in 1795 to solve the problem of determining position on sea - mainly the [[longitude|longitudinal]] coordinate, since [[latitude]] is easily determined from the20 KB (3,286 words) - 12:52, 24 August 2013
- ...in 1795 to solve the problem of determining position on sea - mainly the [[longitude|longitudinal]] coordinate, since [[latitude]] is easily determined from the20 KB (3,295 words) - 12:51, 24 August 2013
- | style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|'''Latitude and longitude:''' [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=54.277331,-0.401791&ie=UTF8&ll21 KB (3,175 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...rn Siberia some 8° south of the Arctic Circle,<ref>Latitude: 58° 12'; Longitude: 68° 15'.</ref> southeast of Moscow (2385 km 1482 mi, by train), sou29 KB (4,352 words) - 06:36, 6 March 2024
- ...ted between 260 22” and 300 27” north latitude and 800 4” and 880 12” east longitude. Shaped almost like a rectangle, it borders with People’s Republi30 KB (4,798 words) - 02:28, 14 February 2010
- ...id summers. The climate varied to semi-arid steppe and arid desert west of longitude 96 degrees west. The subtropical climate made winters mild but allowed infe42 KB (6,216 words) - 12:53, 9 August 2023
- ...ork]], on the [[Cape York Peninsula]], [[Queensland]], latitude 10º41'21"S longitude 142º31'50"E) to its most southerly point in Tasmania ([[South East Cape]],40 KB (5,787 words) - 16:53, 12 March 2024
- ...]] ("Middle Bay" or "Meridian Bay"), was chosen for the definition of 0.0° longitude to coincide with the originally selected line.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ww44 KB (6,986 words) - 09:16, 6 March 2024
- Regiomantus developed a method of determining longitude at sea from the position of the Moon which he published in his work, ''Ephe51 KB (8,075 words) - 05:28, 17 October 2013