Pinpointing your place is extremely easy on the world map if you exactly know the latitude and longitude geographical coordinates of your city, state or country. With the help of these virtual lines, ...

On a world map, globe or atlas mark the locations you've chosen for each Checkpoint. Record the location and its latitude and longitude for each Checkpoint. Plan a course from one Checkpoint to ...

The latitude and longitude lines are used for pin pointing the exact location of any place onto the globe or earth map. The latitude and longitude lines jointly works as coordinates on the earth or in ...

"Aye, mate." One can almost hear the weary assent of countless a hoary sailor upon hearing these words of Horace, almost see the rheumy eye staring distantly as if at some ghost ship on the ...

These days, thanks to GPS (global positional systems), it is easy to know exactly where you are.

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

on the other side of the globe. He finally found someone after posting on the online message board, Reddit. The men used longitude and latitude to make sure they were precisely opposite.

In 1707, a fleet of five warships under the command of the unusually named Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell was heading back to ...

A treasure hunt centered in Massachusetts ended Tuesday after a man found the trophy, worth more than $26,000, in Wendell ...

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 48 km ENE of Noda, Japan at 0438GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 63.4 km, was ...

If I want to see where a place is in the world, I just need to look at where the lines cross, and read the numbers. Ah, there he is! Latitude is 32 degrees south, and longitude is 115 degrees east.