Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home

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Next we looked at the tropical easterlies, which are winds that are located between 0 and 30 degrees and blow towards the equator. To specify the cardinal direction, you can use letters or positive and negative numbers. For latitude, northern directions may be indicated by the letter N or a positive number, and southern directions can be marked with either the letter S or a negative value. For longitude, you can use the letter E or a positive number for the eastern direction, and the western direction can be indicated by the letter W, or a negative number. Remember - don't mix the forms! If you're using letters, values should always be positive. So, based on our rules, and since the polar easterlies are blowing away from the poles, we can assume that the winds are blowing towards the right, or west, in the Northern Hemisphere. You may be wondering why they are called polar easterlies then, right? Well, winds are named based on where they start, so since they start in poles, and due to the Coriolis effect, blow from the east, they are called polar easterlies. Longitude and Latitude are the two angles that define the precision location of a point on earth or the GPS coordinates. Longitude is the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object. Latitude is the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator. The degree of the angle is between -90° and 90°. longitude and latitude coordinates are usually expressed in degrees and minutes. The 60th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

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. What he witnessed, he says, was a familiaity between people and place that was beyond what words could express. “There in Kamchatka, those people were not really separable from place… though I knew that such concordance is no longer truly possible in the world in which I live, in seeing it I felt for the first time its absence. And from there, from that recognition, my own longing took shape.” While latitude is determined by the equator, humans had to make up a midpoint for longitude. In 1851, Sir George Airy chose the observatory in Greenwich, England, an area of London, to be zero longitude. Thirty years later, 25 nations met to officially declare it the prime meridian.You might notice these are a change from our first two winds as they blow eastward, so they're called westerlies (since they blow from the west). Remember, they are blowing towards the poles, so they are deflected to the right, which causes them to blow eastward. Longitude, on the other hand, is the angle between a point and an arbitrary, imaginary line, called the prime meridian, which divides Earth vertically.

If you want to get coordinates in DMS, take only the integer - these are the minutes. Go to the third point.factors (non-living environmental factors), and they are known by their dominant type of vegetation, such at the tropical rainforest or taiga. There are three planetary pressure belts, and hence three types of prevailing winds: the easterlies, the westerlies, and the trade winds. What State am I in - When you are driving, you may not know which state you are currently in, use this tool to find out which state are you at now. entirely ocean (slightly north of the South Orkney Islands); sometimes considered the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean

The “60 n latitude” is a country that is located at the 60th parallel north. The country has a population of about 4 million people. 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. Read on to find out more about latitude/longitude coordinates, and see some surprising commonalities when we look at cities with the same latitudes or longitudes. What are Latitude and Longitude? There are three planetary pressure belts, and hence three types of prevailing winds: the polar easterlies, the westerlies, and the easterlies or trade winds. Due to the rotation of the Earth ( Coriolis effect), 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.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.