The equator passes through the land of 11 countries. Indonesia is the country straddling the greatest length of the equatorial line across both land and sea. Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the equator passes through: Despite its name, no part of Equatorial Guinea lies on the equator. However, its island of Annobón is south of the equator, and the rest of the country lies to the north.
Equatorial countries and territories
Equator
Equator | Equatorial countries and territories
The equator passes through the land of 11 countries. Indonesia straddling the greatest length of the equatorial line. 11 countries including Indonesia. Indonesia, Equatorial Guinea, among others. The equator passes through the land of 11 countries. Indonesia is the country straddling the greatest length of the equatorial line across both land and sea.
what are the major global wind systems on earth
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polar easterlies, westerlies to name a few.
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what is the first one about?
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are the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas towards the low-pressure areas.
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how does it effect the precipitation?
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Orographic precipitation occurs on the windward side of mountains and is caused by the rising air motion of a large-scale flow of moist air across the mountain ridge, resulting in adiabatic cooling and condensation.
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are there any trade that depend on this?
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Yes, The trade winds.
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what does it mean?
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They are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics near the Earth's equator.
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what is the length of the last thing mentioned?
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The equator is 0.16% longer than a meridian.
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where is it located?
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The precise location of the equator is not truly fixed; the true equatorial plane is perpendicular to the Earth's rotation axis, which drifts about during a year.
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which all countries does it pass through?
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The equator passes through the land of 11 countries. Indonesia is the country straddling the greatest length of the equatorial line across both land and sea. Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the equator passes through: Despite its name, no part of Equatorial Guinea lies on the equator. However, its island of Annobón is south of the equator, and the rest of the country lies to the north.
Equator | Equatorial countries and territories
The celestial equator currently passes through these constellations:
Celestial equator | Introduction
Despite its name, no part of the country's territory lies on the equator—it is in the northern hemisphere, except for the insular Annobón Province, which is about south of the equator.
Equatorial Guinea | Geography
The latitude of the Earth's equator is, by definition, 0° (zero degrees) of arc. The equator is one of the five notable circles of latitude on Earth; the other four are both polar circles (the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle) and both tropical circles (the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn). The equator is the only line of latitude which is also a great circle—that is, one whose plane passes through the center of the globe. The plane of Earth's equator, when projected outwards to the celestial sphere, defines the celestial equator. In the cycle of Earth's seasons, the equatorial plane runs through the Sun twice per year: on the equinoxes in March and September.
Equator | Overview
Lysenko had circumnavigated the globe from west to east, straying no more than two degrees of latitude from the Equator. Starting in Libreville (Gabon), Vladimir had successfully crossed (in a car, a motor boat, a yacht, a ship, a kayak, a bicycle, and by foot) Africa (from Libreville (Gabon) to Kiunga (Kenya) through Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya), Indian Ocean, Indonesia (from Padang to Biak), Pacific Ocean, South America (from Pedernales (Ecuador) to Macapa (Brazil) through Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil) and Atlantic Ocean with finish in Libreville in 2012.
Vladimir Lysenko | Circumnavigation along the equator
You also notice just how far north the United States, Europe, and Asia are. Standing at the equator, you really have to strain your neck to see them.
Mapparium | View from within
The precise location of the equator is not truly fixed; the true equatorial plane is perpendicular to the Earth's rotation axis, which drifts about during a year. This effect must be accounted for in detailed geophysical measurements. Geological samples show the equator significantly changed positions between 12 and 48 million years ago, as sediment deposited by ocean thermal currents at the equator have shifted. The deposits by thermal currents are determined by the axis of the earth, which determines solar coverage of the Earth's surface. Changes in Earth axis can also be observed in the geographic layout of volcanic island chains, which are created by shifting hot spots under the Earth's crust as the axis and crust move.
Equator | Precise location
To make the longest distance trip around the planet a traveler would have to pass through a set of antipodal points. All meridians can be crossed in one hemisphere—indeed, by walking around one of the poles—but such trips are shorter than a maximum circumnavigation. On the other hand, the greatest straight line distance that could in theory be covered is a trip exactly on the Equator, a distance of . The Earth's equatorial bulge makes this slightly longer than a north-south trip around the world along a set of meridian lines, which is a distance of . Any other closed great circle route starting on the equator and traveling at an angle between 0° (an equatorial route) and 90° (a polar route) would be between .
Antipodes | True trip "around the world"
In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between and , while the declination coordinates are between −24.54° and −40.42°.
Antlia | Characteristics
Equator is a 2006 BBC television documentary series in three parts charting presenter Simon Reeve's journey along the Equator through Africa, Asia and South America. He travelled through Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. Somalia was skipped due to ongoing conflict in the area
Equator (TV series) | Introduction
In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between and , while the declination coordinates are between −67.48° and −83.12°.
Apus | Characteristics
This has led to conflict between different countries wishing access to the same orbital slots (countries at the same longitude but differing latitudes). These disputes are addressed through the ITU allocation mechanism. Countries located at the Earth's equator have also asserted their legal claim to control the use of space above their territory, notably in 1976, when many countries located at the Earth's equator created the Bogota Declaration, in which they asserted their legal claim to control the use of space above their territory.
Space law | Allocative Limitations
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the IERS Reference Meridian passes through 8 countries:
IERS Reference Meridian | List of places
Based on data obtained by Tufiño, it was believed that the equator passed through those two sites. However, according to readings based on the World Geodetic System WGS84, used in modern GPS systems and GIS products, the equator actually lies about north of the marked line. Over the years, countless tourists have had their pictures taken straddling the line drawn down the center of the east-facing staircase and across the plaza. The pyramidal monument, with each side facing a cardinal direction is topped by a globe which is in diameter and weighs . Inside the monument is a small museum that displays a variety of indigenous items pertaining to Ecuadorian culture: clothing, descriptions of the various ethnic groups, and examples of their activities.
Ciudad Mitad del Mundo | Latitude discrepancy
To a person on Earth, the Sun appears to travel above the equator (or along the celestial equator) at these times. Light rays from the Sun's center are perpendicular to Earth's surface at the point of solar noon on the equator. Locations on the equator experience the shortest sunrises and sunsets because the Sun's daily path is nearly perpendicular to the horizon for most of the year. The length of daylight (sunrise to sunset) is almost constant throughout the year; it is about 14 minutes longer than nighttime due to atmospheric refraction and the fact that sunrise begins (or sunset ends) as the upper limb, not the center, of the Sun's disk contacts the horizon.
Equator | Overview
The major axis of the prolate spheroid does not run through the satellite's poles in this case, but through the two points on its equator directly facing toward and away from the primary.
Spheroid | Prolate spheroids
The interstitial "equatorial" cells touch the meridian cells at their faces. They touch each other, and the pole cells at their vertices. This latter subset of eight non-meridian and pole cells has the same relative position to each other as the cells in a tesseract (8-cell), although they touch at their vertices instead of their faces.
24-cell | Visualization
It passes vertically through the galactic plane once every 27.4 million years, ranging no more than 80 pc above or below.
Messier 18 | Introduction
It passes through:
Florence meridian | Introduction
Moreover, it is not applicable on lines passing through the pole since in this case, both "x" and "y" intercepts are zero (which is not allowed here since formula_32 and formula_33 are denominators). A vertical line that doesn't pass through the pole is given by the equation Similarly, a horizontal line that doesn't pass through the pole is given by the equation The equation of a line which passes through the pole is simply given as: where "m" is the slope of the line.
Line (geometry) | In polar coordinates
The galactic equator runs through the following constellations:
Galactic coordinate system | In the constellations
In 2012 it was about halfway through the Milky Way, crossing the galactic equator. In 2012, the Sun's December solstice fell on 21 December.
2012 phenomenon | Precession
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the Tropic of Capricorn passes through 10 countries:
Tropic of Capricorn | Around the world
An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between the poles. On Earth, "the Equator", at 0° latitude, divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Equator may also refer to:
Equator (disambiguation) | Introduction
The 45th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 45° south of the Earth's equator. It is the line that marks the theoretical halfway point between the equator and the South Pole. The true halfway point is south of this parallel because Earth is not a perfect sphere, but bulges at the equator and is flattened at the poles. Unlike its northern counterpart, almost all (97%) of it passes through open ocean. It crosses the South Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Australasia (New Zealand and just south of Tasmania), the Southern Ocean, and Patagonia. At this latitude, daytime lasts for 15 hours, 37 minutes during the December solstice and 8 hours, 46 minutes during the June solstice.
45th parallel south | Introduction
Note that there is no "mean ecliptic", as the ecliptic is not subject to small periodic oscillations.
Equatorial coordinate system | Primary direction
Sun-synchronous near circular orbit at altitude of , inclination is 98.28°, orbital period 98.50 minutes, the local equatorial crossing time is at 12:00 hours.
ITUpSAT1 | Orbit
Equatorial E-skip is a regular daytime occurrence over the equatorial regions and is common in the temperate latitudes in late spring, early summer and, to a lesser degree, in early winter. For receiving stations located within +/− 10 degrees of the geomagnetic equator, equatorial E-skip can be expected on most days throughout the year, peaking around midday local time.
Sporadic E propagation | Equatorial E-skip
Its location is in "Jalan Khatulistiwa," literally translated into "Equator Road", North Pontianak, about 3 kilometres from the city centre of Pontianak. The equator monument is not on the equator any more. Land masses are affected by plate tectonics, and Earth's equator itself moves due to the precession of the equinoxes and nutation. The equator has moved slightly southwards and there is another line outside the monument, that shows the recorded position in 2005. The position of the equator in 2010 is even further south and now is in a river, as a GPS device can confirm.
The Equator monument | Location
Air Force One crossed the equator twice, stopped at Travis Air Force Base, in Honolulu, Pago Pago, Canberra, Melbourne, Vietnam, Karachi, and Rome.
Lyndon B. Johnson | International trips
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 51° south passes through:
51st parallel south | Around the world
From the North Pole or South Pole, all constellations south or north of the celestial equator are circumpolar. Depending on the definition, equatorial constellations may include those that lie between declinations 45° north and 45° south, or those that pass through the declination range of the ecliptic or zodiac ranging between 23½° north, the celestial equator, and 23½° south.
Constellation | Terminology
The South Equatorial Current are ocean currents in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean that flow east-to-west between the equator and about 20 degrees south. In the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, it extends across the equator to about 5 degrees north. Within the southern hemisphere, the South Equatorial Current is the westward limb of the very large-scale subtropical gyres. These gyres are driven by the combination of trade winds in the tropics and westerly winds that are found south of about 30 degrees south, through a rather complicated process that includes western boundary current intensification. On the equator, the South Equatorial Current is driven directly by the trade winds which blow from east to west.
South Equatorial Current | Introduction
Europe: every country except Albania, Croatia and the Ukraine Middle East: Israel and Egypt West Asia: Turkey, Georgia, Iran and the Yemen Central Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan (the Karakoram Highway), Nepal Everest Base Camp, India, Kashmir and Ladakh South-east Asia: Thailand, Malaysia and Burma East Asia: southwest and northwest China (the Silk Road) and Japan North America: the United States and Canada Central America: Mexico, Guatemala and Cuba South America: Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Colombia West Africa: Mali North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi East Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar Russia: the Trans-Siberian railway and The Golden Ring Pacific: French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Kiribati and Easter Island (Chile)
Patrick Richardson | Journeys
After the September equinox the sun passes into the Southern Hemisphere. It then passes similarly over the southern tropical regions until it reaches the Tropic of Capricorn at the December solstice, and back again as it returns northwards to the Equator. It then passes similarly over the southern tropical regions until it reaches the Tropic of Capricorn at the December solstice, and back again as it returns northwards to the Equator.
Geographical zone | Torrid zone
This is a list of countries by easternmost point on land (dependent territories included). The order does not always reflect the proximity of the country's territory to the 180th meridian. In such a case there would be three both the very westernmost and the very easternmost countries or territories, Russia, Fiji, and Antarctica, as the 180th meridian passes through them on land. Instead for the number of countries, namely Russia, New Zealand, Fiji, the United States, and Kiribati, which have territory on both sides of the 180th meridian, the given easternmost point of the country is sitthe easternmost point in the direction of travel.
List of countries by easternmost point | Introduction
The following table lists the regions of the Earth at various latitudes:
List of countries by latitude | Introduction
For Afghanistan, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Republic of China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Venezuela, Yemen. Against
Spanish Question (United Nations) | Voting
There are a number of rectangular variants of equatorial coordinates. All have: The reference frames do not rotate with the Earth (in contrast to Earth-centred, Earth-fixed frames), remaining always directed toward the equinox, and drifting over time with the motions of precession and nutation.
Equatorial coordinate system | Geocentric equatorial coordinates
Starting at the prime meridian and heading eastwards, the Arctic Circle passes through:
Arctic Circle | Sites along the Arctic Circle
The Sun's path lies entirely in the northern half of the celestial sphere from the March equinox to the September equinox, but lies entirely in the southern half of the celestial sphere from the September equinox to the March equinox. On the equinoxes, the equatorial Sun culminates at the zenith, passing directly overhead at solar noon. The fact that the equatorial Sun is always so close to the zenith at solar noon explains why the tropical zone contains the warmest regions on the planet overall. Additionally, the Equator sees the shortest sunrise or sunset because the Sun's path across the sky is so nearly perpendicular to the horizon.
Daytime | At the Equator
Earth's Equator, spelled with capital E, is a specific case of a planetary equator. It is about long, of which 78.8% lies across water and 21.3% over land. In spatial (3D) geometry, as applied in astronomy, the equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is the parallel (circle of latitude) at which latitude is defined to be 0°. It is the imaginary line on the spheroid, equidistant from its poles, dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres. In other words, it is the intersection of the spheroid with the plane perpendicular to its axis of rotation and midway between its geographical poles.
Equator | Introduction
It aired in the Philippines on ABS-CBN from September 10 to October 26, 2012. It aired in Japan on cable channel KNTV from September 12 to November 15, 2012.
Man from the Equator | International broadcast
In 1999, Mike set off on an 18-month voyage to circle the equator on foot and by sailing. He left Gabon and crossed the Atlantic to Brazil on a Corsair F-28 trimaran. He then crossed Brazil and Ecuador on bike, canoe and on foot. After that he crossed the Pacific Ocean reaching Indonesia via the Galapagos Islands and crossed Borneo and Sumatra on foot, before crossing the Indian Ocean. To finish the expedition, he crossed the African continent on foot through the Congo and Gabon. This was the first solo circumnavigation of the world around the Equator – unaided and with no engine-driven support.
Mike Horn | Latitude Zero (1999-2000)
One might expect that plumb lines set up in various locations, if extended downward, would all pass through a single point, the centre of the Earth, but this is not the case, primarily due to the Earth being an ellipsoid, not a sphere. The downward extended plumb lines don't even all intersect the rotation axis of the Earth; this much smaller effect is due to the uneven distribution of the Earth's mass. To make computations feasible, scientists defined ellipsoids of revolution; a given ellipsoid would be a good compromise for measurements in a given area, such as a country or continent.
Prime meridian (Greenwich) | History
Besides the equator, four other parallels are of significance: The plane of the Earth's orbit about the Sun is called the ecliptic, and the plane perpendicular to the rotation axis of the Earth is the equatorial plane. The angle between the ecliptic and the equatorial plane is called variously the axial tilt, the obliquity, or the inclination of the ecliptic, and it is conventionally denoted by . The latitude of the tropical circles is equal to and the latitude of the polar circles is its complement (90° - "i"). The axis of rotation varies slowly over time and the values given here are those for the current epoch.
Latitude | Named latitudes on the Earth
However, showed that the effect of the rotation of the Earth results in its resembling a slightly oblate ellipsoid: in this case, the equator and the meridians are the only simple closed geodesics. Furthermore, the shortest path between two points on the equator does not necessarily run along the equator. Finally, if the ellipsoid is further perturbed to become a triaxial ellipsoid (with three distinct semi-axes), only three geodesics are closed.
Geodesics on an ellipsoid | Introduction
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 20th meridian east passes through:
20th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 1st meridian east passes through:
1st meridian east | From Pole to Pole
This situation is like a rugby football or an American football spinning around an axis running through its "equator". (Note that the "equator" of the ball does not correspond to the equator of the Earth.) Small perturbations can move the football, which then spins around another axis through the same "equator". In the same way, conditions can make the Earth (both the crust and the mantle) slowly reorient until a new geographic point moves to the North Pole, with the axis of low moment of inertia being kept very near the equator. Such a reorientation changes the latitudes of most points on the Earth by an amount that depends on how far they are from the axis near the equator that does not move.
True polar wander | Description in the context of Earth
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 60° south passes through:
60th parallel south | Around the world
From Ascension, they sail west, coming in sight of Fernando de Noronha and exchanging salutes with forts there. They cross the equator again after two years and nine months in the Southern hemisphere. Their next stop is the Azores, where they anchor at Fayal, and visit the town Horta, where they stay in the house of the deputy consul. Forster proceeds to describe the Azores. They soon continue to England.
A Voyage Round the World | Chapter VIII. Run from Ascension, past the Island of Fernando da Noronha, to the Açores.—Stay at Fayal.—Return to England
In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between and , while the declination coordinates are between −17.41° and −37.29°.
Pyxis | Characteristics
On Earth, starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the IERS Reference Meridian (as of 2016) passes through:
Prime meridian | List of places
The 1st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 1 degree north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean and South America. The parallel defines part of the border between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
1st parallel north | Introduction
North of the tropic are the subtropics and the North Temperate Zone. The equivalent line of latitude south of the Equator is called the Tropic of Capricorn, and the region between the two, centered on the Equator, is the tropics. There are approximately 13 hours, 35 minutes of daylight during the summer solstice. During the winter solstice, there are 10 hours, 41 minutes of daylight. Using 23°26'N for the Tropic of Cancer, the tropic passes through the following countries and territories starting at the prime meridian and heading eastward:
Tropic of Cancer | Geography
Because of a planet's rotation around its own axis, the gravitational acceleration is less at the equator than at the poles. In the 17th century, following the invention of the pendulum clock, French scientists found that clocks sent to French Guiana, on the northern coast of South America, ran slower than their exact counterparts in Paris. Measurements of the acceleration due to gravity at the equator must also take into account the planet's rotation. Any object that is stationary with respect to the surface of the Earth is actually following a circular trajectory, circumnavigating the Earth's axis. Pulling an object into such a circular trajectory requires a force.
Equatorial bulge | Differences in gravitational acceleration
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 100th meridian east passes through:
100th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
"A true circumnavigation of the world must pass through two points antipodean to each other." Norris McWhirter, founding editor of Guinness, 1971. "[A] true circumnavigation of the Earth must: start and finish at the same point, traveling in one general direction, reach two antipodes, cross the equator, cross all longitudes, cover a minimum of 40,000km." AdventureStats by Explorersweb
Expedition 360 | Underlying definition
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 60th meridian west passes through:
60th meridian west | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 20th meridian west passes through:
20th meridian west | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 61° south passes through:
61st parallel south | Around the world
The second part of the defined boundary separates Río Muni (continental Equatorial Guinea) from Príncipe Island. This portion of the boundary is more complex, consisting of 14 straight-line segments defined by 15 individual coordinate points. Like the first part, this portion of the boundary is an approximate equidistant line between the two countries.
Equatorial Guinea–São Tomé and Príncipe Maritime Boundary Treaty | Introduction
Half a decade later Faithfull again traversed the Meridian Line, this time travelling south through Europe and Africa heading towards the exact centre of nowhere. 0º00 Navigation Part II, A Journey Across Europe and Africa premiered at The Edge in Bath and was subsequently presented in a solo exhibition at Sprinhornhof Kunstverein, Germany. A third and final journey tracing the Meridian line across the planet is planned by Faithfull; "Eventually he will run out of land and take to sea again, with the ultimate aim of standing on a raft at 0°, 0° where the meridian meets the equator off the coast of West Africa.
Simon Faithfull | 0º00 Navigation, 2008 and 0º00 Navigation Part II, 2015
The radius of the semi-major axis of the Earth at the equator is 6,378,137.0 m resulting in a circumference of 40,075,016.7 m. The equator is divided into 360 degrees of longitude, so each degree at the equator represents 111,319.5 m or approximately 111.32 km. As one moves away from the equator towards a pole, however, one degree of longitude is multiplied by the cosine of the latitude, decreasing the distance, approaching zero at the pole. The number of decimal places required for a particular precision at the equator is: A value in decimal degrees to a precision of 4 decimal places is precise to 11.132 m at the equator.
Decimal degrees | Precision
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 1st meridian west passes through:
1st meridian west | From Pole to Pole
The centroids of the 30 equatorial cells form the vertices of an icosidodecahedron, with the meridians (as described above) passing through the center of each pentagonal face. The cells labeled "interstitial" in the following table do not fall on meridian great circles. The cells of layers 2, 4, 6 and 8 are located over the faces of the pole cell. The cells of layers 3 and 7 are located directly over the vertices of the pole cell. The cells of layer 5 are located over the edges of the pole cell.
120-cell | Layered stereographic projection
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 22nd meridian east passes through:
22nd meridian east | From Pole to Pole
When the Sun is directly above the Earth's Equator (on the equinoxes of approximately March 20 and September 23), sunlight shines perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation, and all latitudes have a 12-hour day and 12-hour night. On and near the Equator sunlight comes from almost directly above every day year-round, and thus the Equator has a rather stable daytime temperature the whole year.
Equator | Introduction
The ecliptic currently passes through the following constellations:
Ecliptic | In the constellations
Seasons result from the tilt of the Earth's axis compared to the plane of its revolution around the Sun. Throughout the year the northern and southern hemispheres are alternately turned either toward or away from the sun depending on Earth's position in its orbit. The hemisphere turned toward the sun receives more sunlight and is in summer, while the other hemisphere receives less sun and is in winter (see solstice). At the equinoxes, the Earth's axis is perpendicular to the sun rather than tilted toward or away, meaning that day and night are both about 12 hours long across the whole of the Earth.
Equator | Equatorial seasons and climate
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 100th meridian west passes through:
100th meridian west | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 22nd meridian west passes through:
22nd meridian west | From Pole to Pole
Near the equator, this means the variation in strength of solar radiation is different relative to the time of year than it is at higher latitudes: Maximum solar radiation is received during the equinoxes, when a place at the equator is under the subsolar point at high noon, and the intermediate seasons of spring and autumn occur at higher latitudes, and the minimum occurs during "both" solstices, when either pole is tilted towards or away from the sun, resulting in either summer or winter in both hemispheres. This also results in a corresponding movement of the equator away from the subsolar point, which is then situated over or near the relevant tropic circle.
Equator | Equatorial seasons and climate
Starting at the North Pole and heading southward to the South Pole, the 60th meridian east passes through:
60th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
This is a list of the extreme points of Equatorial Guinea, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.
Geography of Equatorial Guinea | Extreme points
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 38th meridian west passes through:
38th meridian west | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the prime meridian and heading eastwards, the Antarctic Circle passes through:
Antarctic Circle | Sites along the Circle
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 20° south passes through:
20th parallel south | Around the world
Directly before Central Equatoria split up into three separate states in 2015, the government was as shown:
Central Equatoria | Government
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 13° south passes through:
13th parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 10th meridian east passes through:
10th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
At the equator the rotation of the Earth is not observable in relation to the pendulum swing because the plane of the pendulum swing is moving along with the rotation of the Earth and no net change in relationship occurs. It is shown by the diagrams that the surface velocity vectors of the Earth underneath the swing of the pendulum are either balanced in the same direction or included within the same plane as the pendulum swing. For the equatorial pendulum with a swing in the longitudinal (north-south) direction the surface velocity vectors on either side of the swing are balanced in the same direction and the center-point of the pendulum swing is moving along with the direction of rotation (see Figure 2A).
Foucault pendulum vector diagrams | Equatorial pendulum
Now find the point N on the equator which is such that the number of equatorial degrees in ON is numerically equal to the latitude difference (45° for AM on the unequal scale). Draw the perpendicular through N and let it meet OQ at D. Find the point E such that OE=OD, here approximately 54°. This is a measure of the rhumb line distance between the points on the sphere corresponding to A and B on the spherical Earth. Since each degree on the equator corresponds to 60 nautical miles the sailing distance is 3,240 nautical miles for this example.
Mercator 1569 world map | Distances and the Organum Directorium
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 38th meridian east passes through:
38th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 24th meridian west passes through:
24th meridian west | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 57° south passes through:
57th parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 14° south passes through:
14th parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 64° south passes through:
64th parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 13th meridian east passes through:
13th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 52° south passes through:
52nd parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 32° south passes through:
32nd parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 50° south passes through:
50th parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 59° south passes through:
59th parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 24th meridian east passes through:
24th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 36°30′ north passes through:
Parallel 36°30′ north | Around the world
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 11th meridian east passes through:
11th meridian east | From Pole to Pole
In accordance with the definitions for circumnavigations set out by the International Sailing Federation's WSSRC, the equator must be crossed - this crossing was carried out near Kiritimati. However, the WSSRC criteria also stipulate that a global circumnavigation must have an orthodromic distance of 21,600 nautical miles - Watson's journey did not meet this requirement. Watson arrived back in Sydney Harbour at 1:53 pm, Saturday 15 May 2010.
Jessica Watson | Circumnavigation and publicity
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 58° south passes through:
58th parallel south | Around the world
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 10th meridian west passes through:
10th meridian west | From Pole to Pole