What is special with and where is 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude?
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0 Latitude is the Equator, and 0 Longitude is the Prime Meridian.  The Equator is the latitude line that is always closest to the sun, no matter what time of year.  The Prime Meridian is where the time zones start.  Try googling it for more information.
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There is possibly something wrong with your GPS data.  The interpretation of the points may be your error source as it is hard to locate certain items with Google Earth.\nI first ran the Longitude points with a Geodetic Program that can run the Inverse of two geodetic points on an ellipsoid.  I used the WGS84 datum. I noticed that you did not include the latitude and the elevation of the point pair in question.  That is ok.  The program kicked back an Ellipsoidal distance of 1, 040.528 meters and a Mark-to-Mark distance of the same value, 1,040.528 meters.\nI then did a check on this value by using the Mean Radius of the Earth and converting the difference in the Longitude values to radians and ran it through my Geodesy equation and came up with a value of 1039.36 meters.  Pretty close to my program's value.\nYou can always do a check by pacing, pulling a tape, or using some survey techniques to get a fix on the distance.\nRemember, that GPS is referenced to a mathematical Ellipsoid and there are complex equations that determine fixed locations on Earth and the precision and accuracy of the points defined.\nGood night and good luck.
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A database with the longitudes/latititudes of almost every place on earth can be found here. I suppose you do know where you were born.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp#P
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You need to do a little Internet Research.  First, learn about latitude and longitude:  http://geography.about.com/cs/latitudelongitude/a/latlong.htm\n\nNext, try the following site.   From it, you will learn that Fiji is at the 180-degree Meridian (Longitude), and 23.5-degree latitude, right at the Tropic of Capricorn.  \n\nhttp://worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageg.htm\n\nSince you are doing this for school, learn these concepts for yourself.  It will come in handy when you travel internationally later in life!
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If you find the latitude of the northernmost point and the latitude of a point directly south of that you can calculate it.  Multiply the difference in degrees by 60 to get the distance in nautical miles.  Then apply the conversion factors:  1 nautical mile = 1.152 statute miles and 1 statute mile = 1.609 kilometers.  Combined, that means to multiply the difference in longitude in degrees by 111.214.  (Use degrees and decimal degrees, not minutes and seconds).\n\nYou'll be pretty close with this method even though it assumes a spherical Earth.
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use google earth and find the latitude and longitude
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I like using Google Earth to get Lat/Long info. Just take it to where you want to go, and the coordinates are in the lower left corner. Free download, and hours of nerdy entertainment.
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longitude 20 00 N and latitude 77 00 E
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Not sure your terminology is correct, but on Earth declination is called latitude. Declination is the same type of coordinate, but celestial instead of terrestrial. Anyway, above the equator both declination and latitude increase northward; below the equator they decrease northward.
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1 deg. of latitude = 111 kilometers or 69 miles\n\n1 minute of latitude = 1860 meters or 6072 feet. \n\n1 second of latitude = 31 meters or 105 feet
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to find out what's on the opposite side of the globe, take the latitude and longitude of where you start, and apply the following transformation:\n\nlatitude:  change north to south, south to north\nlongitude:  add or subtract 180 degrees\n\nrotterdam is at 51 degrees 55' N latitude and 4 degrees 29' E longitude.  so, directly across the globe is the point at 51 deg 55' S, 175 deg 31' W longitude, which according to google maps, is about 350 miles southeast of the southern tip of new zealand.
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that is the date? what is its longitude and latitude? this will be required to compute the suns position in the sky
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Downlaod Google Earth.  It has longitude and latitude adjusters so you just type it in and it will give you a location (and show it to you)
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greenwich england is zero long and the equator is zero lat\n\nhttp://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm
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History and convenience.\n\nBefore calculators, decimal fractions were troublesome.  360 could be divided by many values using simple fractions.  A nautical mile is one minute (1/60th of a degree) of latitude.  The 24-hour day can be divided into time zones by 15 degree bands.
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its absolute location would be its longitude an latitude position. It reletive location would be a reference to its genaral location suchas central Mexico
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Lines of latitude go around the earth from east to west and are all parallel to each other.  They tell pilots, sailors, etc. how far they are north or south of the equator and how far they are from the north or south pole.  The equator is sort of the main line of latitude.  \n\nLines of longitude go from north to south and each one passes through both the north and south pole, so they are not parallel to each other.  The main line of longitude is called the Prime Meridian and it passes through Greenwich, England.  That is also the line on the earth that is used to determine time zones.\n\nThink of a peeled grapefruit or an orange. The segments of the grapefruit are sort of like the lines of longitude.  But if you cut the grapefruit through the middle like you do if you eat it for breakfast the cut that you make is sort of like the equator, the main line of latitude.\n\nHope this helps.