An imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator.
1 The end of every line of longitude is right here in a bunch.
2 The terror had been taking place along roughly the same line of longitude in Texas for more than thirty-five years.
3 To be classed as a world record, the solo circumnavigation has to cross the equator and every line of longitude .
4 If they went under the ice at some point eastward, how were they to find the seventieth line of longitude ?
5 The first mate announced that they had crossed the third line of longitude and entered the realm known and feared as the Devonshire coast.
6 All these threads, and more, entwine in the lines of longitude .
7 What the lines of longitude and latitude did for geography Linnæus' genius did for botany.
8 Instead, most preferred elliptical projections, using progressively curved lines of longitude and latitude to create artificial rounding.
9 Images swept through her, a wire frame of the earth, red fire spreading along its lines of longitude and latitude.
10 Climates are not found coincident with lines of latitude; they are quite as often found parallel to lines of longitude .
11 These "grid cells" are akin to lines of longitude and latitude, helping the brain to judge distance and navigate.
12 Up to the present moment no geographer has ventured to trace the lines of longitude and latitude in the ocean of marriage.
13 And you need to cross all lines of longitude , plus the equator at least twice, with a minimum distance covered of 21,600 nautical miles.
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