A globe has two fixed points—the North Pole and the South Pole. An imaginary line equator is drawn in such a way that at all points it lies exactly halfway between the two poles. It divides the earth ...

How do latitude and longitude lines work? asks a reader.Think of wrapping the Earth in a planet-sized sheet of sticky graph paper. That's how it might look if we could actually see lines of latitude ...

A series of lines crisscrosses the world's maps and globes. The 180 horizontal latitude lines, and 360 vertical lines that mark east and west longitude, are vital to navigators. But to everybody else ...

The Prime Meridian is the imaginary line running between the North and South Poles that's used to indicate 0° longitude. It passes through Greenwich in southeast London, and is therefore sometimes ...

After creating a global map of historical imagery density last week, we have been experimenting with higher resolution versions for a small area. High resolution historical imagery density Latitude 0° ...

Once called the Prime Meridian of the World, the invisible line running north to south that divides the world into Eastern and Western hemispheres passed through the Airy Transit Circle — a ...

KS3 Geography. Maps and navigation. Co-ordinates and grid references. JOE CROWLEY: When you need to find out exactly where you are on a map you can use co-ordinates to pinpoint your location. When ...