Good explanation. We had a large globe at kansas school for the blind
with raised lines for these lines as well as land and mountains and so
forth. I'd love to have that globe, stood on a stand and was I'd guess 3
feet in diameter.
Anyhow, as I recall, some times degrees are given in decimals and some
times given in degrees minutes and seconds. If I remember right, one
minute is one nautical mile which is about a mile and an eighth, Alexa
says 6076 feet. This comes out 1.15 mile. This is true at the equater of
course as if you go north or south the lines get closer. That is why our
counties here in Kansas which are square have jogs in the roads called
lines of corection. You can't lay out squares on a round globe.
Here is a trivia question I won on the radio when I lived in Vegas. Name
the most northern, eastern, western and southern states in the united
states.
Hawaii, of course is easy for the south one. For the north, it is Alaska
for all three. The reason why is Alaska reaches furtherest longitude
lines east and west of any other ease or west states. .
Hope I haven't bored you all to much.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
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