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The 30th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 30 degrees south of the Earth's equator.It stands one-third of the way between the equator and the South Pole and crosses Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, the Pacific Ocean, South America and the Atlantic Ocean.
On 21 June, the maximum altitude of the sun is 83.44 degrees and 36.56 degrees on 21 December. [citation needed] At this latitude: One degree of longitude = 96.49 km or 59.95 mi; One minute of longitude = 1.61 km or 1.00 mi; One second of longitude = 26.80 m or 87.93 ft
A circle of latitude or line of latitude on Earth is an abstract east–west small circle connecting all locations around Earth (ignoring elevation) at a given latitude coordinate line. Circles of latitude are often called parallels because they are parallel to each other; that is, planes that contain any of these circles never intersect each ...
The equator, a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the northern and southern hemispheres. On Earth, it is an imaginary line located at 0 degrees latitude . 0°
The Greek letter λ (lambda) [38] [39] is used to denote the location of a place on Earth east or west of the Prime Meridian. Each degree of longitude is sub-divided into 60 minutes, each of which is divided into 60 seconds. A longitude is thus specified in sexagesimal notation as, for example, 23° 27
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Winter storms in the western and northern U.S. have dumped snow from California to New York City while Miami could tie or break a high temperature record of 89 degrees for Feb. 28, according to ...
The meridian 30° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Turkey, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 30th meridian east forms a great circle with the 150th meridian west. The meridian is the mid point of Eastern European Time.