Discover what longitude and latitude are and understand what the different hemispheres are. Learn how to locate different places in the world.

To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or ...

IN the Astronomische Nachrichten (No. 3619) I have published the results of an investigation dealing with the effects of periodic changes in solar activity on the motion of our planet. It is there ...

The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and ...

Want to understand why it is that having a precise timepiece (also known as a chronometer) helps you determine your longitude? Play this Shockwave game, get lost on the high seas, and find out.

Latitude — the company behind a buy now, pay later scheme used by major retailers such as JB Hi-Fi and David Jones — reveals hackers have stolen more than 300,000 personal identity documents ...