Latitudes & Longitude
11 questions
Brunei 2. Colombia 3. Kenya 4. Venezuela - 2 and 3 * The equator passes through [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2008; U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2007] - Kenya 2. The Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, all the three pass through which one of the following Continents?
Among the following cities which one lies in the farthest North ?
At the Winter Solstice the noon altitude of the Sun at the Tropic of Cancer is :
Which one of the following longitudes along with the Prime Meridian forms a great circle on the globe.
In the New Millennium, the first ray of the Sun was seen in which of the following Meridians of India –
The Prime Meridian passes through 1. Algeria 2. France 3. Nigeria 4. Portugal Use the code below to select the correct answer. Code :
Statement (A) : Time interval at the date-line is 12 hours from the Greenwich. Reason (R) : Date-line is situated at 180° meridian. Using the following options choose the correct answer--
There is no minimum distance between two places on the globe :
Captain of a ship moving Westward records the local time of 10-00 hrs Monday at 90° W. If the speed of the ship is the same as the speed of the rotation of the earth, which of the following local time and day would be found by the captain at International date line:
Which path must be followed by a Ship to move from one place to another in the least time?
The local time of a place is 6:00 AM when the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is 3:00 AM, what is the longitude of the place?