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>>With that said, those are latitudes, not longitudes. Someone once told be a simple way to remember the difference. Longitude and latitude was first used be G
by rypskar 7y ago
>>With that said, those are latitudes, not longitudes.
Someone once told be a simple way to remember the difference. Longitude and latitude was first used be Greeks to travel the Mediterranean ocean (not sure if that is true, but helps with remembering); The Mediterranean ocean is long from East to West, so moving in the long direction changes the longitude.
- CallOfTheWilde 7y agoI was taught that latitude lines resemble the rungs of a ladder ("lat"-er, I suppose), or alternatively that longitude lines are all equally long.
- tk75x 7y agoMy middle school geography teacher had a more memorable (to me) approach: lat = fat, so if you think of a fat person, their belt is the equator and latitude lines run parallel to it. Long = long hair, so if the Earth is positioned north-up, the hair (longitude lines) runs from top to bottom.
- astura 7y agoI was taught think "longitude = long hair."