A globe has two fixed points—the North Pole and the South Pole. An imaginary line equator is drawn in such a way that at all points it lies exactly halfway between the two poles. It divides the earth ...

To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, ...

A series of lines crisscrosses the world's maps and globes. The 180 horizontal latitude lines, and 360 vertical lines that mark east and west longitude, are vital to navigators. But to everybody else ...

We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...