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| n |
Latitude
represents an angular distance along a
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meridian north
or south from the equator.
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| n |
Longitude is an
angular distance of a point on the
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earth's
surface east or west of an arbitrarily defined
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meridian, usually the Greenwich meridian (Greenwich,
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England).
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A line of longitude running
vertically from the north
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pole to the
south pole, but unlike lines of longitude,
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meridians
terminate at the poles.
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The Prime
Meridian, currently called the Greenwich
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Meridian, runs
through Greenwich, England, was
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agreed in 1884
as being the central meridian from
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which all
other meridians would be referenced to in
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order to
calculate longitude.
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