Where is 57 degrees south latitude

Every city in the world has one thing in common: they each have a pair of coordinates, numbers that describe their location. These coordinates, called latitude and longitude, are used to create maps like the one below.

Before you can interpret the map above, you need to know about the pair of numbers used to plot map coordinates : latitude and longitude. Latitude is the number of degrees north or south of the equator, the imaginary line that runs horizontally through the Earth. Longitude is the number of degrees east or west of the prime meridian, an even more imaginary line because it was made up. Stand up and imagine your feet represent an exact point on Earth. Do you know which way North is? Use one arm to point precisely North and position your other arm in the exact opposite direction.

The line your pointing makes would be the longitudinal line for your location. Now move your arms to point East and West. The line formed by your arms is the latitudinal line for your location. While latitude is determined by the equator, humans had to make up a midpoint for longitude. Thirty years later, 25 nations met to officially declare it the prime meridian.

Every point on Earth can be described by a number of degrees latitude and a number of degrees longitude. Like an algebraic plot, each number can be positive or negative. The mid-point of these quadrants is 0 degrees latitude the equator and 0 degrees longitude the North-South line that runs through Greenwich Observatory. Latitude increases as you go North, making the Northern Hemisphere positive latitude and the Southern Hemisphere negative latitude.

Paris, for example, is at about 48, 2. Latitude usually comes first in the pairing. Longitude increases as you go East, making Eastern Hemisphere i. New York, for example, is at about 40, Longitude runs from degrees West to degrees East. Since longitude wraps around the Earth, and are the same line, on the opposite side from the prime meridian.

Using the map, can you find some cities in the southeastern hemisphere? While much of the worth is solidly within hemisphere quadrants, there are many cities that straddle one of the zero points. These cities, by definition, must be either along the equator or the prime meridian i. The map shows 22 cities that are within two and a half degrees of the equator.

You can find them by using the grouping function in the lower left corner of the map. It costs me a lot to provide this page.

Please tell me if you have any problems eric satsig. At the top left of the map is now a Man icon, If orange it means that a Google Street View is available. Click on it and drag over to where you want to look at. This feature was removed in Dec due to the cost of providing it. The whole map system has been upgraded to Version 2 which now includes detailed street maps for UK , France, Spain and Europe road maps with towns - even in Hungary, which suits me for my cycling holidays!.

Its use is optional. Select the satellite you want to see and then doubleclick on the map. Go to maps to see an index page with a listing of all the map pages. Tell me if you want a page made for your country. Navigation links, to my satellite dish pointing angle calculator.

Discussion forum for latitude longitude finder page. Larger satellite photo image viewer for finding your home as seen from space. This page costs me money to provide and therefore has a limited daily usage. Prior to its daily reset at 8am GMT the mapping may run out of its daily usage allowance and stop working. This page is under progressive development and I would appreciate your feedback and comments.

I made an update which incorporated about marker dots on the map to show the latitude longitude coordinates of large cities around the world. This is to help you find your lat-long more easily.

For some visitors using IE this caused some lines to appear in my log file each time some one accessed the page. I have now solved this "feature of IE" making the browser download the tiny square icon once only and then reuse it locally as needed for showing all the cities on the map.

The number of markers is still rather large however and slows down the initial loading. In the case of Firefox you may get a time out "Warning-Unresponsive Script" message.

Don't worry it is still working OK, just click continue. In version V1, the markers were clickable. In V2 the marker is in fact a single pixel with a large clickable square shadow. The top left corner of the square shadow is not clickable - I have not resolved this.

On 6th June , I added optional satellite dish pointing angles - azimuth, elevation and feed rotation polarisation angles. These are based on the latitude and longitude of your site location and the orbit position longitude of the geostationary satellite selected which is above the equator.

Not all the bugs may be out of this yet. If you see problems please tell me. You need your latitude longitude location to about 0. Accuracy is particularly important if you are near the equator and almost under the satellite. The polarization angle appears rotate rapidly as you move from one location to another in the sub-satellite area.

In these cases you can use the detailed road and street maps to home in on your latitude and longitude. Here is a page if you want to see the satellite view of the ground at a latitude and longitude that you already know. If the page is not working, hopefully I will have fixed it in a minute or so. Every time I upload a new version I check it works OK or go back to the previous version. This happens several times a day. Or, go here: to find the OSGB map reference for a particular place on the ground; this works only for places in and around the UK.

Read visitor reviews of this page. You are welcome to please write your own review and send it to me at eric satsig. Page created 25th November , amended 6th June 06 with added dish pointing angles. This dot should start off at twenty degrees latitude north of the equator and zero longitude i. Amended 14th Aug to add geocoding and allow you to input your town or city name. October Deleted some cities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Burma Myanmar as they are now in the main database. Feedback please to me, Eric Johnston eric satsig.