This is all plain sailing, with correct latitude andlongitude to go by!
It covers an area of 1° of latitude by 1° of longitude with a scale of four miles to an inch.
The captain told me he had made a detailed survey of part of the south coast, and if the coal arrived should go away at once to Humboldt Pay, in longitude 141° east, which is the line up to which the Dutch claim New Guinea.
On the south coast of New Guinea, the Dutch naturalist, Muller, found it at the Oetanata river inlongitude 136° E.
The Hawaiian Islands (inhabited) number eight and extend from the southeast to the northwest, covering about six degrees of longitude and nearly four of latitude.
Japan extends in the shape of a crescent, curving toward the northeast, from fifty north latitude and one hundred and fifty-six east longitude to twenty-one degrees north latitude and one hundred and nineteen east longitude.
Kara-muren in thelongitude of Cherchen (about 85(1/2) deg.
He now employed his leisure in looking over old papers on astronomy and mathematics and the method of finding out the longitude at sea.
He amused himself by throwing his latest thoughts on the longitude into the form of three cryptographs:[246] 1.
The radiant had almost the exact longitude of the point towards which the earth was moving.
Hansen, and to find a more accurate value for the secular acceleration of the moon's longitude and the node of her orbit than any that could be obtained from modern observations made with instruments of the highest precision.
The earth's position E at that date gives the longitude of Mars M.
In that latitude, the degree of longitude represents eight and forty miles.
The direction of the axis major of the orbit, which was found by calculating the longitude of the comet's perihelion.
That the true longitude of the moon may be obtained more accurately, these must be subtracted from the longitude of the moon already calculated in the first and third quadrant of the circle of the second index.
It descends from apogee to perigee and in just as many others it returns from perigee to apogee, to be carried down thus to true, back and front from the longitude and distance from the sun and from the middle of the earth.
Cliffe, and about 200 leagues in longitude west of the strait, according to the Famous Voyage.
It is therefore customary to drop a day in mid-ocean, which we did on crossing the hundred and eightieth degree of longitude west and east of Greenwich.
If borders are used, however, the space between the neat line and the outer line of the border should be only sufficient to provide proper space for the numbers showing latitude and longitude or township and range.
The numbers showing latitude and longitude should be in shaded arabic numerals and those showing township and range in gothic.
The highland west of Armenia, the plateau of Asia Minor, from the longitude of Siwas (37° E.
The name La Mesa (the table) down on the chart Cook had with him, describes the island, says Burney, but the longitude is several degrees out.
Cook signifies his keen appreciation of the watch machine, and says: "I must here take notice that our longitude can never be erroneous while we have so good a guide as Mr. Kendal's watch.
Gradually working down to 60 degrees South in the longitude given for Cape Circumcision, and being some ninety-five leagues further south, with no signs of land, Cook concluded that M.
That made by Kendal was found to be working well, and gave the longitude within one minute of time when compared with that fixed by Messrs.
Tarim River, between the longitude of Shayar and Lake Lop.
But I suspect that there is some material error in the longitude of Lake Lop as represented in our maps, and that it should be placed something like three degrees more to the westward than we find it (e.
One of these expeditions landed at 'Elmina' and discovered Cape Catherine in south latitude 1º 50' and west longitude (Gr.
Dahse increases the latter to nine miles, the difference of latitude being three and a quarter miles, and of longitude four.
The latitude and longitude as calculated for this camp afford another instance showing the error in the observations made by the expedition.
Complete sets of observations for latitude and longitude were taken, which gave 38 deg.
No; not a minute, nor a second, west of 130 degrees west longitudewould we cross the Line.
But, between the longitude of Hilo and 128 degrees west longitude is a difference of twenty-seven degrees, or, roughly, sixteen hundred miles.
I entered the table again, according to rule; I entered the table half a dozen times, according to rule, and every time found that my difference oflongitude was 25 miles.
Entering the table, according to rule, and going through every detail, according to rule, I found the difference oflongitude for the four hours to be 25 miles.
And work it up I did, only to find that my longitude was 184 degrees west.
In the name of human reason, how could you cover one mile more of longitude than the total number of miles you had sailed?
The meridians of longitude are 60 miles (nautical) apart at the equator.
The longitude of the City Hall from Washington is 12m.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
