Longitude

Latitude at noon, thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes north.

Longitude, forty-eight degrees, two minutes west.

July 14th.

The light weather still prevails and seems likely to for an indefinite length of time.

A little rain fell a while afterward, and a wee bit more wind came out of the cloud, but at ten-thirty we were again motionless on the surface of the water.

Latitude at noon, thirty-one degrees fifty-six minutes north.

Longitude, forty-five degrees thirty-two minutes west.

July twentieth.

And when you look at the map, the landscape, then it's exactly like California and also the same climate zone and the same longitude.

I don't know the word.

Longitude, yeah.

The same as San Francisco, yeah.

It is actually quite...

Latitude at noon, thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes north.

Longitude, forty-eight degrees, two minutes west.

July fourteenth.

The light weather still prevails and seems likely to for an indefinite length of time.

Besides, there are countless inconveniences to be suffered in a sailing ship that women ashore have no idea of, and when we return home, I am sure that my wife will be hailed as a heroine, as valiant as those of Clark Russell.

Latitude at noon, twenty-seven degrees north.

Longitude, forty degrees fifty minutes west.

July thirtieth.

But don't question It is interesting.

The United States is preparing to replace the official reference system used for latitude, longitude, and elevation.

And some published coordinates could change by as much as four meters.

Gary, you just dropped out, man.

Bert Turtles gives us a comment, and I don't know, guys, if it's too soon to answer this one, but will elevations of mountains change, or is that something different altogether with this change that's coming up? Okay.

Sounds like too soon.

yeah i don't i don't know you just have to know that they're that those are all different um measuring so everything that they measure north of the equator so you're north your latitudes and your longitudes are two separate measurements and so elevation is a third separate measurement as well as uh sea floor distance below the sea all of that stuff is um it's all measured differently by different um systems i don't think that elevations will change because a foot above sea level is still a foot above sea level um what it'll do is it'll move the high point of a mountain from from here to here right we say that uh there you know it's it's just the your gps coordinates are the address for it it's one two three main street and all of a sudden now you're gonna be at one, two, two main street instead of one, two, three main street.

Uh, everything else is going to stay the same.

Latitude, north and south, could be estimated with reasonable skill by observing the stars or the height of the sun.

Longitude, east and west, was the nightmare.

Sailors had no accurate marine clocks.

They estimated distance from speed, direction, currents and time.

Latitude so-and-so.

Longitude so-and-so.

That'll do.

Or anything like it.

Latitude at noon, thirty-three degrees, fifty-seven minutes north.

Longitude, forty-five degrees, twenty-four minutes west.

End of section three.

Section four of A Deep Water Voyage by Paul Eve Stevenson.

Sparring seems to be their chief amusement, and there are many severe bouts always going on between six and eight, bleeding noses and split lips generally ending the contests.

Latitude, thirty-two degrees, twenty-six minutes north.

Longitude, forty-six degrees, nine minutes west.

July nineteenth.