Latitude
in example sentence
From 67 degrees 30' to 90 degrees, twenty-two and a half degrees of
latitude
were left to cross, in other words, slightly more than 500 leagues.
More example sentences with word latitude
And when you plot those friendship links by their
latitude
and longitude, it literally draws a map of the world.
Now that's the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the south, that much I knew, but I was surprised to learn this little fact: Those are not cartographers' lines, like
latitude
or the borders between nations, they are astronomical phenomena caused by the Earth's tilt, and they change.
And they happen, on average, to have a certain unique physiology: legs that are very long and very thin at their extremity, and this is because they have their ancestry at very low
latitude
in a very hot and dry climate, and an evolutionary adaptation to that is limbs that are very long and very thin at the extremity for cooling purposes.
Now, one summer day in 2006, she was at a dig site called the Fyles Leaf Bed, which is less than 10 degrees
latitude
away from the magnetic north pole.
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