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  2. The Pyramid (Antarctica) - Wikipedia

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    The Pyramid is on a promontory on the west side of Koettlitz Glacier between Renegar Glacier to the southwest and Walcott Bay to the northeast. Dromedary Glacier is to the northwest. Nearby features include The Almond, Pyramid Trough and The Bulwark. [2] The Alph River flows north through the Pyramid Trough. [3]

  3. Module:Location map/data/Antarctic Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Longitude: from West to East this map definition covers 22.6 degrees. At an image width of 200 pixels, that is 0.113 degrees per pixel. At an image width of 1000 pixels, that is 0.0226 degrees per pixel. Latitude: from North to South this map definition covers 15.2 degrees. At an image height of 200 pixels, that is 0.076 degrees per pixel.

  4. Charpentier Pyramid - Wikipedia

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    Charpentier Pyramid) is a pyramid-shaped peak rising to 1,080 metres (3,540 ft) in the northwest part of the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after Jean de Charpentier, a Swiss engineer and mineralogist who in 1835 gave additional proof on the former extension ...

  5. Geographical distance - Wikipedia

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    View from the Swabian Jura to the Alps. Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth, or the shortest arch length.. The formulae in this article calculate distances between points which are defined by geographical coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude.

  6. Equirectangular projection - Wikipedia

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    Equirectangular projection of the world; the standard parallel is the equator (plate carrée projection). Equirectangular projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation and with the standard parallels lying on the equator True-colour satellite image of Earth in equirectangular projection Height map of planet Earth at 2km per pixel, including oceanic bathymetry information, normalized as 8 ...

  7. Antarctic Circle - Wikipedia

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    The Antarctic Circle is the northernmost latitude in the Southern Hemisphere at which the centre of the sun can remain continuously above the horizon for twenty-four hours; as a result, at least once each year at any location within the Antarctic Circle the centre of the sun is visible at local midnight, and at least once the centre of the sun is below the horizon at local noon.

  8. Universal polar stereographic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The two grids covering the Arctic and Antarctic. The universal polar stereographic (UPS) coordinate system is used in conjunction with the universal transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system to locate positions on the surface of the Earth. Like the UTM coordinate system, the UPS coordinate system uses a metric-based cartesian grid laid out on ...

  9. Geodetic coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Geodetic latitude and geocentric latitude have different definitions. Geodetic latitude is defined as the angle between the equatorial plane and the surface normal at a point on the ellipsoid, whereas geocentric latitude is defined as the angle between the equatorial plane and a radial line connecting the centre of the ellipsoid to a point on the surface (see figure).