The globe shows the lines of latitude and the degrees of north and south. The line labelled 0° longitude is called the Prime Meridian or the Greenwich Meridian and runs through London.

Longitude lines run along the Earth's surface in a north-south direction, and unlike latitude lines, they divide the globe into segments like those of an orange, rather than regular strips.

At the equator, one degree of longitude and latitude both cover about 111 kilometers, or just under 70 miles. When we get away from the equator, this starts getting tricky. Longitude lines.

Captain Peter Right now, you’re within 49 miles of a confluence, an arbitrary point on Earth where an imaginary line of latitude intersects with an imaginary line of longitude.

Today, latitude and longitude are both determined electronically through GPS — a worldwide system of navigation with a constellation of 24 satellites and their ground stations.

It is imaginary lines such as latitude, longitude, equator, meridian, which are drawn by geographers to find the location of the places on the globe.

Finding lat. and long. In order to define a location in terms of latitude and longitude, one first has to have starting points both for the lines running north to south, known as meridians, and ...