Latitude specifies the north-south position of a point on Earth's surface. It is measured as an angle between 0 and 90 degrees from the equator to the poles. Lines of constant latitude run east-west as circles parallel to the equator, and together with longitude specify any location on Earth. Latitude is defined with reference to the Earth's axis of rotation and the planes that intersect its surface, such as the equatorial plane.
Latitude specifies the north-south position of a point on Earth's surface. It is measured as an angle between 0 and 90 degrees from the equator to the poles. Lines of constant latitude run east-west as circles parallel to the equator, and together with longitude specify any location on Earth. Latitude is defined with reference to the Earth's axis of rotation and the planes that intersect its surface, such as the equatorial plane.
Latitude specifies the north-south position of a point on Earth's surface. It is measured as an angle between 0 and 90 degrees from the equator to the poles. Lines of constant latitude run east-west as circles parallel to the equator, and together with longitude specify any location on Earth. Latitude is defined with reference to the Earth's axis of rotation and the planes that intersect its surface, such as the equatorial plane.
Latitude specifies the north-south position of a point on Earth's surface. It is measured as an angle between 0 and 90 degrees from the equator to the poles. Lines of constant latitude run east-west as circles parallel to the equator, and together with longitude specify any location on Earth. Latitude is defined with reference to the Earth's axis of rotation and the planes that intersect its surface, such as the equatorial plane.
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Latitude - is a geographic coordinate that specifies the
north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
Latitude is an angle (defined below) which ranges from 0 at the Equator to 90 (North or South) at the poles. Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run eastwest as circles parallel to the equator. Latitude is used together with longitude to specify the precise location of features on the surface of the Earth. Two levels of abstraction are employed in the definition of these coordinates. In the first step the physical surface is modeled by the geoid, a surface which approximates the mean sea level over the oceans and its continuation under the land masses. The graticule formed by the lines of constant latitude and constant longitude is constructed with reference to the rotation axis of the Earth. The primary reference points are the poles where the axis of rotation of the Earth intersects the reference surface. Planes which contain the rotation axis intersect the surface in the meridians and the angle between any one meridian plane and that through Greenwich (the Prime Meridian) defines the longitude: meridians are lines of constant longitude. The plane through the centre of the Earth and orthogonal to the rotation axis intersects the surface in a great circle called the equator. Planes parallel to the equatorial plane intersect the surface in circles of constant latitude; these are the parallels. The equator has a latitude of 0, the North pole has a latitude of 90 north (written 90 N or +90), and the South pole has a latitude of 90 south (written 90 S or 90). The latitude of an arbitrary point is the angle between the equatorial plane and the radius to that point. Latitude