Tag Archives: Latitude

The World’s Northernmost Things

The world’s northernmost capital is Reykjavik in Iceland. Its exact latitude is 64°08′ N and is home to about 200,000 people. It is ranked one of the greenest cities in the world and its citizens enjoy a welfare system and highly developed market. Being just below the Arctic Circle, it receives only four hours of […]

How to Teach Longitude, Latitude, Meridian and Equator in an Easy to Understand Way

There comes a time in every adults life when their child comes home with a worksheet that asks mysterious questions seemingly designed to make fools of the adults in the room. These questions are on a subject that most adults take for granted and in this day and age of GPS and Google, we rarely […]