The northernmost latitude in degree

Maine, the USA Latitude and longitude coordinates are: 45.367584, -68.972168. Maine is located in the northeastern corner of the United States, bordering Canada to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and the state of New Hampshire to the west. With an area close to 35,000 square miles, Maine is among the least crowded and the smallest states of the country. Maine is the only state that shares a border with only one other state. The coastline of Maine has a length of about 35 hundred miles which is among the country's top 10 largest coastlines. The city of Augusta, located in the southeastern part of the state, is the capital city of Maine, and the city of Portland, located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, is the largest settlement of the state. Historically, Maine was the area where plenty of European immigrants used to arrive in the newly discovered continent, that is why the local culture is a unique mixture of strong indigenous traditions with a variety of European cultural tendencies. Maine's economy is based on shipbuilding, fishing, farming, and commerce. Apart from Portland and Augusta, the large cities of Maine include the ones of Houlton, Bangor, Brunswick, Caribou, Lewiston, and others. The state is known as the area with hundreds of lakes spread equally around the area of the state. Green areas and small parks can be found all around the state of Maine, with Unorganized Territory of South Oxford, Mahoosuc Public Reserve Land, Grafton Notch State ...

Longitudes and latitudes form Earth's geographical coordinates. © timeanddate.com Together, they form the Earth’s geographical coordinates, and represent the angular distance of any location from the center of the Earth. Both latitudes and longitudes are measured in degrees (°) and minutes (′). Dividing Earth Into Hemispheres The Earth is, almost, but not quite, a sphere that spheroid or ellipsoid. If we draw a line passing through the center of the Earth along its rotational axis, the line would pass through the North and the South Pole. The Most locations on the equator experience consistently high Imaginary Circles Often called parallels or circles of latitude, latitudes are imaginary circles parallel to the equator. On a map where north is up, latitudes run laterally (left to right). They are named after the angle created by a line connecting the latitude and the center of the Earth, and the line connecting the equator and the center of the Earth. Latitudes specify the north-south position of a location on the globe. Locations in the Northern Hemisphere are identified by northern latitudes and are assigned a suffix of N for north. Southern Hemisphere locations, on the other hand, are on southern latitudes and are assigned a suffix of S for south. The major latitudes and longitudes. © timeanddate.com Notable Latitudes The equator represents 0° latitude, while the North and South Poles represent 90° North and 90° South latitudes. In addition to the equator, there are fou...

Mark Sabbatini first noticed the cracks in his apartment's concrete walls in 2014. It had been six years since he moved to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago far out in the Barents Sea, about halfway between Norway's northern tip and the North Pole. He was an itinerant American writer drawn by promises of an open, international society—and jazz music. Every winter the community of Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town at 78 degrees North latitude, holds a jazz festival to liven up the perpetual darkness. Residents, university students, tourists and visiting scientists mingle in music halls, clinking champagne glasses to melodious tones as winds howl through the surrounding mountains. On his first visit Sabbatini had arrived just in time for the festivities. Svalbard, he says, instantly felt like home. “It was like when you look across the room and spot somebody and fall in love.” But fissures were now appearing in the relationship. Sabbatini worried the apartment cracks were caused by a leaky roof; it had been raining more than usual. Then he realized the building's concrete foundation was buckling. Fractures slithered up the stairwells and defaced the building's beige exterior. The next year tenants discovered that part of a cooling system underneath the building, meant to help keep the permafrost ground frozen and stable during warm spells, was faltering. “And we were getting a lot of warm spells,” Sabbatini says. Suddenly, on a February afternoon in 2016, town offi...