Articles About Geography (5)

What Are Longitudes and Latitudes?

Cartographers and geographers divide the Earth into longitudes and latitudes in order to locate points on the globe.

Prime Meridian line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London

Is the Greenwich Meridian in the Wrong Place?

Why does a GPS device not show 0 degrees of longitude at the line marking the prime meridian in Greenwich, London, UK? Is it wrong—or just different?

Time Zone map showing the International Date Line.

What Is the International Date Line?

The International Date Line goes through the Pacific Ocean at about 180 degrees longitude. Where is the International Date Line? See it on a time zone map.

Magnetic Declination

A compass needle doesn't point to the geographical North Pole but to magnetic north. Did you know that it usually doesn't point to the magnetic North Pole either?

Illustration showing Earth's axis drawn as a red line.

Earth Is Tilted

When an object the size of Mars crashed into the newly formed planet Earth around 4.5 billion years ago, it knocked it over and left it tilted at an angle.