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Mercator sailing. Both spellings ("plane" and "plain") have been in use for several centuries, Plane sailing is based on the assumption that the meridian through...2 KB (252 words) - 22:38, 6 June 2024
original calculation of 23,000 nmi (43,000 km) sailing route. On 15 February 2010, she crossed the Prime Meridian, crossing from the Western Hemisphere to the...58 KB (5,177 words) - 23:41, 13 June 2024
Mercator projection (section On a meridian)(rhumb lines), other than the meridians or the equator, do not correspond to great circles. The distinction between rhumb (sailing) distance and great circle...49 KB (6,729 words) - 03:16, 28 June 2024
International Date Line (redirect from Date meridian)on the meridian of 180° longitude, roughly down the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and halfway around the world from the IERS Reference Meridian, the successor...46 KB (5,342 words) - 02:38, 19 May 2024- Picture. The title of the novel comes from the first line of the 1926 poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats. The plot follows the interweaving paths of...12 KB (1,559 words) - 05:05, 12 June 2024
Vishnya-class intelligence ship (redirect from Meridian-class intelligence ship)The Vishnya class (NATO reporting name) (also known as the Meridian class), Soviet designation Project 864, are a group of intelligence collection ships...14 KB (946 words) - 20:18, 11 December 2023
American Southwest, where he researched and wrote his fifth novel, Blood Meridian (1985). Although it initially garnered a lukewarm critical and commercial...86 KB (7,617 words) - 15:10, 15 June 2024
definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude at...20 KB (2,008 words) - 17:42, 29 June 2024
and unlimited access to sail to the islands in exchange for the ships sailing to Bermuda between April and October each year. Although these contracts...39 KB (2,780 words) - 00:13, 21 June 2024- the 40th parallel north latitude and the 35th meridian west longitude, thence south along the meridian to the 10th parallel north latitude, thence southeast...12 KB (1,105 words) - 12:41, 22 February 2024
The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition...46 KB (1,675 words) - 12:23, 9 May 2024
at the same angle. A ship sailing towards the same point of the compass describes such a line which cuts all the meridians at the same angle. In Mercator's...20 KB (2,806 words) - 02:02, 14 November 2022- television and radio presenter, newsreader and journalist. Hawkins joined ITV's Meridian Tonight in 2003, hosting its main news programme, leaving in 2006 to become...21 KB (1,580 words) - 20:25, 2 July 2024
Navigation (redirect from Sailing navigation)the prime meridian or Greenwich meridian. Longitude is usually expressed in degrees (marked with °) ranging from 0° at the Greenwich meridian to 180° east...62 KB (7,333 words) - 07:47, 27 May 2024- True Spirit (film) (category Sailing films)is estimated to take 200 days, and she must cross the equator and all Meridians of longitude. Her team consist of her parents, three siblings, and her...16 KB (1,564 words) - 07:15, 15 February 2024
Sittingbourne (redirect from Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum)Local television news programmes are BBC South East Today and ITV News Meridian. Local radio stations for Sittingbourne are BBC Radio Kent, Heart South...36 KB (3,776 words) - 14:17, 14 May 2024
known as the Prime Meridian and is now accepted by most nations as the starting point for all longitude measurements. The Prime Meridian of zero degrees...9 KB (1,388 words) - 06:02, 17 November 2023
Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces discovered the Drake Passage while sailing south from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan. Because of this, the...24 KB (2,628 words) - 16:54, 7 June 2024
be more useful to sailors. This 'correction', whereby constant bearing sailing courses on the sphere (rhumb lines) are mapped to straight lines on the...153 KB (6,274 words) - 00:31, 2 March 2024- icebox's efficiency is badly compromised." List of sailing boat types McArthur, Bruce (2021). "Meridian 25 (Seafarer) sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived...8 KB (617 words) - 19:04, 1 June 2024
- traverse, parallel, mid latitude, and Mercator sailings. In plane sailing the figure formed by the meridian through the point of departure, the parallel
- in Anarchist Morality (1890) The length of the pendulum and that of the meridian are the two principal means offered by Nature for fixing the unity of linear
- earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or