Maps: Latitude/ Longitude and Coordinates

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• When looking at a map, latitude lines run horizontally. Latitude lines are also known as parallels since they are parallel and are an equal distant from each other. Each degree of latitude is approximately 69 miles (111 km) apart; there is a variation due to the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere but (slightly egg-shaped).


• Degrees latitude are numbered from 0° to 90° north and south. Zero degrees is the equator, the imaginary line which divides our planet into the northern and southern hemispheres. 90° north is the North Pole and 90° south is the South Pole.


• The vertical longitude lines are also known as meridians. They converge at the poles and are widest at the equator (about 69 miles or 111 km apart). Zero degrees longitude is located at Greenwich, England (0°). The degrees continue 180° east and 180° west where they meet and form the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean.


• To precisely locate points on the earth's surface, degrees longitude and latitude have been divided into minutes (') and seconds ("). There are 60 minutes in each degree. Each minute is divided into 60 seconds. Seconds can be further divided into tenths, hundredths, or even thousandths.

YUKON TERRITORY Whitehorse AP (S) 60° 43' N 135° 4' W

Introduction: Social history of the Circumpolar North

• Beginning my journey through the Circumpolar North, and not having much knowledge to start with. I needed start with defining what exactly the Circumpolar North was

"Roughly speaking, this term refers to the area encompassed by the Arctic and the Subarctic
biogeographical zones. For political purposes it includes the following states:
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, USA, Canada, Greenland [Denmark], and Iceland."

• While I began my research of the Circumpolar I began to realize how without really paying attention to the world I live in it is continously changing around me. Continental and climate changes began millions of years ago, and yet today land continues to shift, and more and more people take notice to the changing climates in the North.


• Without over exhausting the global warming issue I discovered in an article that the burning of fossil fuels have uncovered some fossils of its own. The impact of climate change was unavoidable in the Yukon as melting ice has uncovered ancient artifacts.Geologists working in the Wernecke Mountains northeast of Mayo, Yukon, have uncovered microfossils that are twice as old as the dinosaurs.


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