0° The equator is the circle of latitude that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is an imaginary line located at 0 degrees latitude...

The celestial equator is the great circle of the imaginary celestial sphere on the same plane as the equator of a planet, by convention generally Earth...

Look up Equator, equator, or ecuatorial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular...

The Equator Principles is a risk management framework adopted by financial institutions, for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social...

The thermal equator (also known as "the heat equator") is a belt encircling Earth, defined by the set of locations having the highest mean annual temperature...

solar equator is the latitude on Earth at which the Sun is observed directly overhead at midday. Due to the obliquity of Earth's axis, the solar equator varies...

The Ford Equator (Chinese: 福特领裕; pinyin: Fútè Lǐngyù) is a mid-size crossover SUV built by the JMC-Ford joint venture. The Equator is a three-row SUV...

Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in...

longitude (0°N 0°E / 0°N 0°E / 0; 0), where the prime meridian and the equator intersect in the Atlantic Ocean near the Gulf of Guinea. Since there is...

north pole, with 0° at the Equator. Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run east-west as circles parallel to the equator. Latitude and longitude are...

The Suzuki Equator is a mid-size pickup truck based on the Nissan Frontier, assembled by Nissan and sold under the Suzuki brand. It was released in the...

The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of health research Network (EQUATOR Network) is an international initiative aimed at promoting transparent...

the equator. Therefore, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator. Its...

Equator is a magazine of "politics, culture, and art" based in London. Founded in 2025, its publishers declared their fundamental motivation was their...

Equator Records or Equator Sound Studios was a record company formed in 1961 in Nairobi, Kenya, from the purchase of East African Records and Jambo Records...

The Equator Monument (Indonesian: Tugu Khatulistiwa) is located on the equator in Pontianak, Indonesia. It marks the division between the Northern Hemisphere...

point on the celestial equator that rises with any celestial object as seen from Earth's equator, where the celestial equator intersects the horizon at...

English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the equator. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands...

The Confederation of the Equator (Portuguese: Confederação do Equador) was a short-lived rebellion that occurred in the northeastern region of the Empire...

Equator was a two-masted pygmy trading schooner known for carrying passengers Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson on a voyage through...

The Equator-S satellite was a spacecraft constructed by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics for the International Solar-Terrestrial...

encircles Earth near the thermal equator, though its specific position varies seasonally. When it lies near the geographic equator, it is called the near-equatorial...

between their territories is commonly known as the Aldi-Äquator (lit. 'Aldi equator') and runs from the Rhine via Mülheim an der Ruhr, Wermelskirchen, Marburg...

The Ford Equator Concept could refer to several different concept cars by the American automotive company Ford Motor Company: Ford Equator Concept (2000)...

Equator was an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) focused on experiences integrating physical and digital interactions, spanning six years...

with. Equator P-300 Equator Equator P-350 Equator Equator P-400 Equator Equator P-420 Turbo Equator Equator P-420 Twin Equator Equator P-450 Equator Equator...

solar equinox is a moment in time when the Sun appears directly above the equator, rather than to its north or south. On the day of the equinox, the Sun...

obliquity of the ecliptic. If the equator is projected outward to the celestial sphere, forming the celestial equator, it crosses the ecliptic at two points...

latitude are rhumb lines, except the Equator. The latitude of the circle is approximately the angle between the Equator and the circle, with the angle's vertex...

circles, the Equator, and the Poles (which are degenerate circles). The positions of these two circles of latitude (relative to the Equator) are dictated...

Man from the Equator (Korean: 적도의 남자; RR: Jeokdoui namja; also known as The Equator Man) is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Uhm Tae-woong...

Equator is a 2006 BBC television documentary series in three parts charting presenter Simon Reeve's journey along the Equator through Africa, Asia and...

to the equator and to each other. The north pole is 90° N; the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is defined to be the equator, the fundamental...

cylinder coincides with the polar axis and the line of tangency with the equator. For the transverse Mercator, the axis of the cylinder lies in the equatorial...

The Ford Equator is a concept car by the Ford Motor Company first presented in 2005 to preview the future styling that Ford would use for models in the...

(indicated by the circular grid around the equator) moves. The celestial equator is just the Earth's equator projected onto the celestial sphere, so it...

arc measurement, measuring the length of a degree of latitude near the Equator, by which the Earth's radius can be inferred. The mission was one of the...

due to its location both within the Pacific Ring of Fire and near the equator, making it prone to earthquakes, monsoon rains, and typhoons, to which...

MV Fugro Equator is a survey vessel owned and operated by Dutch company Fugro to provide a range of offshore survey capabilities. Fugro took delivery...

Bunaken National Park Management Advisory Board, Indonesia (PDF) (Report). Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New York: United Nations Development Programme...

lines. The locus of the points having zero dip is called the magnetic equator or aclinic line. The inclination I {\displaystyle I} is defined locally...

reaches its most northerly or southerly sun path relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around 20–22 June...

Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the equator. It contains all or part of five continents (the whole of Antarctica, the...

The tropics are the region of Earth surrounding the equator, where the Sun may shine directly overhead. This contrasts with the temperate or polar regions...

the inner Van Allen belt, has its intensity peak at altitudes above the equator of half an Earth radius, centered at about 3000 km, increasing from the...

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same...

north and south of the equator, or at least 300 nautical miles (556 km, 345 mi) from the equator. Within 5 degrees of the equator, tropical cyclogenesis...

The chemical equator term and concept was coined in 2008 when researchers from University of York discovered a distinct divide between the polluted air...

(hemispheres), typically divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator and into western and eastern halves by the Prime meridian. Hemispheres...

years old. Constituted in such fashion, India lies to the north of the equator between 6° 44′ and 35° 30′ north latitude and 68° 7′ and 97° 25′ east longitude...

plane consisting of the projection of Earth's equator onto the celestial sphere (forming the celestial equator), a primary direction towards the March equinox...

(abbreviated dec; symbol δ) is the angular distance from the celestial equator on the celestial sphere; when paired with right ascension, it forms the...

about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca...

(13 mi) closer to Earth's center than if standing at sea level on the Equator. As a result, the highest point on Earth, measured from the center and...

because its average elevation rises steadily toward the north (toward the equator) and further inland. This varied topography and oceanic influence result...

respectively. Positive latitudes are north of the equator, negative latitudes are south of the equator. Positive longitudes are east of the Prime Meridian;...

411 sq mi) of water. Brazil is the only country in the world that has the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn running through it. It spans four time zones;...

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean north of the equator between 100°E and the 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean...

records are set by the WSSRC. Equator to Equator Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean South Atlantic Ocean From the Atlantic Ocean: Equator => Cape Agulhas (South Africa)...

Equator is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band Uriah Heep, released in 1985. It marked the studio return of bassist Trevor Bolder, who had...

parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic...

Following are circles of latitude between the Equator and the 5th parallel south: 1° Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as:...

tropical depression intensifies into a tropical storm to the north of the Equator between the coastline of the Americas and 140°W, it will be named by the...

Jatropha is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. The name is derived from the Greek words ἰατρός (iatros), meaning "physician"...

Following are whole degree circles of latitude between the Equator and the 5th parallel north: 1° Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates...

symbolically depicts Nauru's geographical position, with a star just south of the Equator. The flag reflects the geographical location of the island nation. The...

one species, the Galapagos penguin, lives at, and slightly north of, the equator. Highly adapted for life in the ocean water, penguins have countershaded...

Equator Records is an independent record label established in 2006 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The music label was founded by Matt Drouin and Fuzz de...

The Equator Broadcasting Corporation also known by its acronym EBC is the public-service broadcaster of Central Equatoria State. The organization is headquartered...

advocate of black nationalism, Walker also jointly edited a newspaper, The Equator, with his brother. He published a book, Our Home Colony (1908), to explore...

Froid Équateur (published in English as Equator Cold and Cold Equator) is a science fiction graphic novel published in 1992, written and illustrated by...

The Genesis X Gran Equator (Korean: 럭셔리 오프로더｜제네시스) is a concept vehicle built by Genesis Motor, the luxury sub-brand of Hyundai Motor Company. Styling...

"overnight success". What sounds like a honking saxophone line at the end of "Equator" is in fact a Mellotron played by Ron Mael. The concept for the cover came...

Little fruit from the Equator (Portuguese: A frutinha do Equador; German: Früchtchen - Am Äquator ist alles möglich) is a 1998 feature film, directed...

Air Equator was an airline based in Gan, Maldives. It operated services linking the southernmost island of Gan to other main islands in the Maldives....

measures the angular distance of an object eastward along the galactic equator from the Galactic Center. Analogous to terrestrial longitude, galactic...

reference, such as coordinate systems specified by "equinox", or "equinox and equator", or "equinox and ecliptic" – when these are needed for fully specifying...

University of Berlin, she incorrectly said that Venezuela was "below the equator". Committee on Energy and Commerce (2025–present) Subcommittee on Energy...

the equator. There, moist air is warmed by Earth's surface, decreases in density and rises. A similar air mass rising on the other side of the equator forces...

Liberty Bell, making the plane the only one to go around the globe over the Equator and the poles. The flight made it in 54 hours, 7 minutes, and 12 seconds...

inclination relative to Earth's equator. It would require an inclination of this earlier orbit of about 10° to the equator to produce a present inclination...

celestial equator within this constellation and Pisces. Underlying these technical two definitions, the sun passes directly overhead of the equator, within...

Pacific typhoon seasons. The typhoon seasons are limited to the north of the equator between the 100th meridian east and the 180th meridian (aka Prime Antimeridian)...

and Aries, which is smaller, to the east. The ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect within this constellation, at the first point of Aries, and in...

case, the equator and the meridians are the only simple closed geodesics. Furthermore, the shortest path between two points on the equator does not necessarily...

length corresponding to one minute (⁠1/60⁠ of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles...

global-scale tropical atmospheric circulation that features air rising near the equator, flowing poleward near the tropopause at a height of 12–15 km (7.5–9.3 mi)...

Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator. In Japan, the territory is known as "Japanese Mandate for the Governance...

of landmasses, between roughly 30 and 45 degrees north or south of the equator. The main cause of Mediterranean, or dry summer, climate is the subtropical...

Across the Equator (Japanese: 赤道越えて, Hepburn: Sekidō Koete) is a 1936 Japanese propaganda documentary film directed by Eiji Tsuburaya in his directorial...

The Equator Art Society was an artists' group founded in 1956 in Singapore, known for promoting social realist art. The Equator Art Society sought to...

April 2022: Much of the country lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator. It lies in the monsoon region of Asia, with its coastal regions receiving...

(12 mi) tall equatorial ridge. The ridge runs along most of Iapetus's equator, and is the third tallest mountain structure in the Solar System. First...

orbiting object. For a satellite orbiting the Earth directly above the Equator, the plane of the satellite's orbit is the same as the Earth's equatorial...

also shaped by the Caribbean Current which brings in warm water from the Equator. This makes the climate of Cuba warmer than that of Hong Kong, which is...

Earth's surface) is perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation at the equator, while the axis of rotation and the vertical are the same at the pole;...

Peninsula, and Tierra del Fuego, although these regions are closer to the equator. Despite its proximity to the Arctic, the island's coasts remain ice-free...

identified in the sky, others being the zodiac, the meridian, the horizon, the equator, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic...

Nickname(s) Léopards (Leopards) Guerriers de l'Équateur (Warriors of the Equator) La Céleste (The Skyblue) Association Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association...

the southwest. It is on the south (equator) side of the house all day long. A vertical window facing south (equator side) is effective for capturing solar...

become invisible at astronomical dawn. Observers within about 48°34' of the Equator can view twilight twice each day on every date of the year between astronomical...

Danger Zone: Places That Don't Exist, Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve, Equator and Tropic of Capricorn. He is the author of The New Jackals (1998), One...

year (346.62 days), the sun moves from being 1.5427° north of the lunar equator to being 1.5427° south of it and then back. This is analogous to how, on...

latitudes 6°N and 14°S, and longitudes 12°E and 32°E. It straddles the Equator, with one-third to the north and two-thirds to the south. With an area...

flora, whose distribution would have ranged from the polar circle to the equator if the continents had been in their present position; similarly, the freshwater...

circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude above Earth's equator, 42,164 km (26,199 mi) in radius from Earth's center, and following the...

biographies or staged events." The channel launched on September 5, 2006 as Equator HD. Its brand was licensed and much of its programming was purchased from...

climate is hot and very humid year-round because of its proximity to the equator and the ocean. Nauru is hit by monsoon rains between November and February...

roundness of the Sun is the relative difference between its radius at its equator, R eq {\displaystyle R_{\textrm {eq}}} , and at its pole, R pol {\displaystyle...

which is produced by Ford partner JMC. In 2022, JMC-Ford launched the Equator Sport, which is exported as the new generation Territory. The first iteration...

refer to the equatorial region of sub-Saharan Africa traversed by the Equator, more broadly to tropical Africa, or in a biological and geo-environmental...

straight lines. Other meridians are curves (or possibly straight from pole to equator), regularly spaced along parallels. Conic In normal aspect, conic (or conical)...

parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic...

making it the most populous African country located entirely south of the equator. Many important hominid fossils have been found in Tanzania. In the Stone...

half of the celestial sphere; that is, it lies north of the celestial equator. This arbitrary sphere appears to rotate westward around a polar axis due...

is one of the two points on the celestial sphere at which the celestial equator crosses the ecliptic, the other being the first point of Libra, located...

telescopes. celestial equator The imaginary great circle of a body's celestial sphere that is coplanar with the body's terrestrial equator. On Earth, the plane...

Passenger from the "Equator" (Russian: Пассажир с «Экватора», romanized: Passazhir s «Ekvatora») is a 1970 Soviet children's adventure film directed by...

accumulation of gas and dust. Altair rotates rapidly, with a velocity at the equator of approximately 286 km/s. This is a significant fraction of the star's...

planet, she did it in a narrow range of latitudes relatively far from the equator that resulted in her voyage falling short of the distance criterion of...

The Equator Prize, organized by the Equator Initiative within the United Nations Development Programme, is awarded biennially to recognize community efforts...

at the equator, but it decreases with latitude, becoming zero at the poles. This is because Earth's circumference is greatest along the equator and the...

from the equator. Earth's surface can be subdivided into specific latitudinal belts of approximately homogeneous climate. Ranging from the equator to the...

islands, from Banaba in the west to Kiritimati in the east straddles the equator and the 180th meridian. The International Date Line goes around Kiribati...

suppose that this observer is within the plane of the planet's equator. A point on the Equator that passes directly in front of this observer later in time...

15 N 14 N 13 N 12 N 11 N 10 N 9 N 8 N 7 N 6 N 5 N 4 N 3 N 2 N 1 N The equator, a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the...

equator. When the Sun crosses the equator at both equinoxes, the Sun's daily shift (relative to the background stars) is at an angle to the equator,...

southward equinox) is the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward. Because of differences between the calendar year and...

0002267[needs update] and at an inclination of 51.6 degrees to Earth's equator. This orbit was selected because it is the lowest inclination that can...

(2009), Cyrano Agency (2010), Architecture 101 (2012), and Man from the Equator (2012). Uhm Tae-woong was unsure which college course to take, so he initially...

large mainland and a number of islands. The country lies just south of the equator, and shares a land border with Indonesia, and maritime borders with Australia...

months, while the Equator remains warm throughout the year, with only 12 hours of daylight per day. Although the daytime length at the Equator remains 12 hours...

at 1,567 metres above sea level. Rwanda lies a few degrees south of the Equator in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. Rwanda is bordered by Uganda to...

half of the celestial sphere; that is, it lies south of the celestial equator. This arbitrary sphere, on which seemingly fixed stars form constellations...

More exactly, sidereal time is the angle, measured along the celestial equator, from the observer's meridian to the great circle that passes through the...

convention is that the observer latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is 0 at the equator, positive for the Northern Hemisphere and negative for the Southern Hemisphere...

reference values: the mean radius (R1) of three radii measured at two equator points and a pole; the authalic radius, which is the radius of a sphere...

east-to-west between the equator and about 20 degrees south. In the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, it extends across the equator to about 5 degrees north...

Promosexual (Equator, 1995) Nancy Boy (Sire Records 1996) "Johnny Chrome and Silver" (Equator, 1994) "Are "Friends" Electric?" (Equator, 1995) "Deep Sleep...

world followed the North Atlantic Ocean, Equator, South Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, Equator, North Atlantic Ocean route in an easterly...

climate in Brazil varies considerably from mostly tropical north (the equator traverses the mouth of the Amazon) to temperate zones south of the Tropic...

climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southeast...

location closer to the Equator, the same altitude is reached in less than an hour, and for a location farther from the equator, the altitude is reached...

that of Everest (6,382.3 km, 3,965.8 mi), because the Earth bulges at the equator. This is despite Chimborazo having a peak of 6,268 m (20,564.3 ft) above...

the equator of a perfectly spherical Earth. If the string should be raised 1 metre (roughly 3 ft 3 in) off the ground, all the way along the equator, how...

in the Southern Hemisphere, even discounting its territory north of the Equator. Data are from the CIA World Factbook. Geoscience Australia gives an official...

February average rainfall of 4.7 mm (0.19 in). The city lies on the thermal equator and as it is also located on the coast, there is no extreme variation in...

(/ˌɒfiˈjuːkəs/ o-fee-YOO-kəs) is a large constellation straddling the celestial equator. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek ὀφιοῦχος (ophioûkhos), meaning "serpent-bearer"...

Equator is an album by Randy Stonehill, released in 1983, on Myrrh Records. It has not been released on CD. All songs written by Randy Stonehill, except...

point on the analemma to the southernmost—is bisected by the celestial equator, to which it is approximately perpendicular, and has a "length" of twice...

(German pronunciation: [ˈvaɪsvʊʁst.ɛˌkvaːtoːɐ̯] ; lit. 'white sausage equator') is a humorous term describing the supposed cultural boundary separating...

continent's mainland. The Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south. The...

Project Apollo required. The landing site had to be close to the lunar equator to minimize the amount of propellant required, clear of obstacles to minimize...

3 km) completed in only 112.5 hours (4.7 days). Air Force One crossed the equator twice, stopped at Travis Air Force Base, in Honolulu, Pago Pago, Canberra...

coincides with the event horizon at the poles but bulges outward around the equator. Matter and radiation can escape from the ergosphere. Through the Penrose...

object is the gravitational acceleration experienced at its surface at the equator, including the effects of rotation. Surface gravity may be understood as...

trainsets were allocated on KLIA Ekspres service. The trainset, nicknamed Equator, is much different from the first-generation train, which lacked toilets...

Earth. Its latitude is currently 23°26′09.0″ (or 23.43583°) south of the Equator, but it is very gradually moving northward, currently at the rate of 0...

Quito. The grounds contain the Monument to the Equator, which highlights the exact location of the Equator (from which the country takes its name) and commemorates...

broader eastern Africa sub-region. Owing to Somalia's proximity to the equator, there is little seasonal variation in climate. Hot conditions prevail...

Current (NEC) is a westward wind-driven current mostly located near the equator, but the location varies from different oceans. The NEC in the Pacific...

South of the Equator is a 1924 American silent comedy adventure film directed by William James Craft and starring Kenneth MacDonald, Virginia Warwick...

horse latitudes are the latitudes about 30 degrees north and south of the equator. They are characterized by sunny skies, calm winds, and very little precipitation...

that at the equator, the Sun is not directly overhead at noon, except around the March and September equinoxes, when one spot on the equator is pointed...

part of the flag and coat of arms adopted by the Confederation of the Equator, a short-lived 1824 secessionist revolt in the northeastern provinces of...

a sea that runs perpendicular to the Red Line, along what would be the equator on Earth and is bounded by the Calm Belt, strips of calm ocean infested...

about a local vertical axis is largest there, and decreases to zero at the equator. Rather than flowing directly from areas of high pressure to low pressure...

Ocean is divided in two parts, the northern and southern Atlantic, by the Equator. The oldest known mentions of an "Atlantic" sea come from Stesichorus around...

consideration of its linear distance from the observer. The celestial equator divides the celestial sphere into northern and southern hemispheres. Because...

Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location both near the Equator and in the African region of Guinea. As of 2025[update], the country has...

equator drive water away from the East Pacific and into the West Pacific. This water is slowly warmed by the Sun as it moves west along the equator,...

caused by the combination of warm air being displaced upward from the Equator towards the South Pole, Earth's rotation, and the scarcity of landmasses...

Ptolemy's assumption of only 500 stadia per degree of longitude on the equator (rather than the 700 of Eratosthenes) led Columbus to underestimate the...

subdivides it into two largely independent volumes of water that meet at the Equator, the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (or more loosely the...

group, 360 nautical miles (670 km; 410 mi) from Suva, 12° 30′ south of the equator. Fiji covers a total area of some 194,000 square kilometres (75,000 sq mi)...

Sextans is a faint, minor constellation on the celestial equator which was introduced in 1687 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin...

months in India became the centerpiece of his 712-page book Following the Equator. In the second half of July 1896, Twain sailed back to England, completing...

Gulf of Venezuela. Venezuela is entirely located in the tropics over the Equator to around 12° N. Its climate varies from humid low-elevation plains, where...

radiation in a particular geographic area, with darker skin mostly around the equator. Skin darkening may have evolved as protection against ultraviolet solar...

also different below someone on the equator and below someone at a pole. The net result is that an object at the Equator experiences a weaker gravitational...

crosses the equator and lies in two hemispheres. The area forms the settlement of Ilhéu das Rolas. The resort lies just north of the equator, and is 60 km...

Ptolemy. Commonly represented as a water snake, it straddles the celestial equator. The Greek constellation of Hydra is an adaptation of a Babylonian constellation:...

Space Centre, now the European Space Agency's primary launch site near the equator. As elsewhere in France, the official language is standard French, but...

gravity is weakest at the equator because of the centrifugal force caused by the Earth's rotation and because points on the equator are farthest from the...

Indonesia are the parts of Southeast Asia that are located south of the equator. The region lies near the intersection of geological plates, with both...

reaching to 1.8 minutes of latitude or about 3.3 km (2.1 mi) south of the equator, covers 1,285,216 km2 (496,225 sq mi) of western South America. It borders...

parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic...

generally considerably cooler than other regions at similar proximity to the Equator. Most of the country's major cities are located at elevations of around...

mean sea level at the equator is 6,378.1 kilometres (3,963.2 mi) from the center of the Earth. This means sea level at the equator is about 22 kilometres...

hours, the shape of the planet is an oblate spheroid; the radius to the equator is about 7% larger than the radius to its poles. Its internal structure...

cylindrical equal-area projection. This projection is undistorted along the equator, which is its standard parallel, but distortion increases rapidly towards...

the Sun is north of the lunar equator (but at most 1.543°), and for the other half, it is south of the lunar equator. Obviously, the effect of these...

to the Earth, the Earth's rotation must be taken into account. At the equator, the velocity of Earth's surface is about 465 metres per second (1,674 km/h;...

glaciated, despite being located at the equator. Due to their immense size and orientation nearly parallel to the equator, as Pangea drifted north during the...

most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. The term South Sea may also be used synonymously for Oceania, or even...

Heritage Sites declared by UNESCO. Quito is the capital city closest to the Equator, which runs through the northern part of the metropolitan area in the parish...

Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for 'eagle', and what it represents is mixed; some say it represents the bird that...

cos φ decreases from 1 at the equator to 0 at the poles, which measures how circles of latitude shrink from the equator to a point at the pole, so the...

suggests the global temperatures increased by about 6 °C (10.8 °F) near the equator and therefore by more at higher latitudes: a sharp decrease in oxygen isotope...

be implemented in spherical or rectangular coordinates. The celestial equator and the ecliptic are slowly moving relative to the distant stars due to...

literally "Equator" in the Spanish language, truncated from the Spanish official name, República del Ecuador (lit. "Republic of the Equator"), derived...

sovereign state lies west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory...

become Illinois was submerged beneath a shallow sea and located near the Equator. Diverse marine life lived at this time, including trilobites, brachiopods...

Kiswahili), particularly on the north and east coasts. Being near the equator, the islands are warm year-round. The rainfall regime is split into two...

evaporative cooler. However, since greenhouse vanilla is grown near the equator and under polymer (HDPE) netting (shading of 50%), this humidity can be...

state spans from below the 45th parallel (the line equidistant between the equator and North Pole) to the 49th parallel, and elevations range from under 2...

length of 4,370 km (2,720 mi). It is the only major river to cross the equator twice. The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 mi2)...

Marshall Islands in Oceania. It is only 53 kilometres (33 mi) south of the Equator at coordinates 0°32′S 166°55′E / 0.533°S 166.917°E / -0.533; 166.917...

arcminutes') is a circle of latitude that is 36+1⁄2 degrees north of the equator of the Earth. This parallel of latitude is particularly significant in...

the equator. Like Parmeneides, thinking that the area near the equator was too hot for habitation, Aristotle dubbed the region around the equator (from...

Philippines, Manila lies entirely within the tropics. Its proximity to the equator means temperatures are high year-round especially during the daytime, rarely...

08–10.12 AU) has a distinctive visible ring system orbiting around its equator composed of small ice and rock particles. Like Jupiter, it is mostly made...

orbits are often referred to as geostationary if they are roughly over the equator, but the terms are used somewhat interchangeably. Specifically, geosynchronous...

the northern edge to as dark as it is possible for humans to be at the equator. This is partly due to isolation by distance, a point that called attention...

Jupiter's surface are organized in a dozen zonal bands parallel to the equator and are bounded by powerful zonal atmospheric flows (winds) known as jets...

the Northern Hemisphere and the September equinox to the south of the equator―are favorable for viewing the zodiacal light. Crepuscular – Animals that...

considered to be subtropical islands. Other non-tropical areas below the equator, such as Chiloé Island, Macquarie Island, Tasmania, and the southern portions...

happened aboard ship during a raucous celebration for sailors crossing the equator for the first time. Because of McCarthy's various lies about his military...

planetary waves, are very long, low frequency water waves found near the equator and are derived using the equatorial beta plane approximation. Using the...

And then you've got Scottie Pippen right in the middle. He's sort of the equator. Although struggling with calf problems early in the season, Rodman grabbed...

found between 5 degrees and 20 degrees in both North and south of the Equator. Grasslands are dominated by grasses and other herbaceous plants. Savannas...

with different periods. The solar rotation period is 25.67 days at the equator and increases with increasing latitude, reaching 33.40 days at 75 degrees...

This could mean a body reorienting itself to put extraneous mass near the equator and regions lacking mass tend towards the poles. This is called polar wander...

Convergence Zone, specifically between its limits to the north and south of the equator. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the rainy phase of a seasonally...

an oblate spheroid, which is flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator. Its equatorial radius is more than 10% longer than the polar radius: 60...

is divided into six districts. It is located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the Equator. São Tomé is about 48 kilometres (30 miles) long (north-south) by 32 kilometres...

is located along the 45th parallel north, so it is midway between the Equator and the North Pole. The province contains 5,400 lakes. Nova Scotia lies...

word "Enyaanyukie," which means "resemblance." It lies just north of the Equator (0° 01' N). British immigrants settled in Nanyuki in 1907, and some of...

the warm climate and high primary productivity in the region near the equator. Tropical forest ecosystems cover less than one-fifth of Earth's terrestrial...

the primary's celestial equator, the great circle of the imaginary celestial sphere that is coplanar with the primary's equator. A geostationary orbit...

is common in wetlands and grassland in Africa south of the Equator. North of the Equator, it is replaced by the northern red bishop or orange bishop...

roles in family drama If Tomorrow Comes, revenge thriller Man from the Equator, melodrama Love Rain, period epic Faith, and teen drama School 2013. In...

between animals are major in high carrying capacity zones (i.e., near the Equator), where biodiversity is higher, because of natural resources abundance...

correspond to the animals depicted in the tauroctony – all lay on the celestial equator (the location of which is shifted by the precession) and thus had privileged...

inequality is not consistent and is generally small when the Moon is over the Equator. The following reference tide levels can be defined, from the highest level...

approximately twice as far away from the Equator as from the North Pole, the 60th parallel is half as long as the Equator line, due to the cosine of 60 degrees...

in glacial ice rapidly advancing to the equator once the glaciers spread to within 25° to 30° of the equator. Therefore, the presence of glacial deposits...

Machu Picchu lies in the Southern Hemisphere, 13.111 degrees south of the equator. It is 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Cusco, on the crest of the...

always occurs at or soon after the "winter" solstice for that side of the equator) with precipitation less than 60 mm (2.4 in), but at least 100 − ( t o...

southern tropics over the course of the year, roughly following the solar equator. The tropical rain belt is an area of active rain that is positioned mostly...

of Australia, it carries a large amount of warm tropical water from the Equator southward. This contributes to the conditions which allow the Great Barrier...

the U.S. state of Hawaii, and one of two U.S. territories south of the Equator, along with the uninhabited Jarvis Island. American Samoa consists of the...

Highway from Mombasa to Bujumbura (1500km, 25 hour drive); River Katonga; Equator line that crosses 13 countries and brings tropical climate to 100 countries;...

varies least near the equator. The difference between the shortest and longest night increases approaching the poles. At the equator, night lasts roughly...

poles of a rotating black hole and extends to a greater radius at the equator. A black hole with modest angular momentum has an ergosphere with a shape...

average radius of Jupiter; 109 times the 6378 km radius of the Earth at its equator; and 1 215 {\textstyle {1 \over 215}} or 0.0047 of an astronomical unit...

exclusively in the southern hemisphere; the only species to occur north of the equator is the Galapagos penguin. The only group of birds other than the ratites...

short dry season, between June and September. Kinshasa lies south of the equator, so its dry season begins around its winter solstice, which is in June...

that is 45° south of the Earth's equator. It is the line that marks the theoretical halfway point between the equator and the South Pole. The true halfway...

and increases with altitude. Temperatures fall with distance from the equator and with altitude and tend to rise closer to the Atlantic Ocean. Thus,...

the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding regions...

sandstones, limestones, and shales were deposited. East Antarctica was at the equator, where seafloor invertebrates and trilobites flourished in the tropical...

parallel north runs through the state, marked by highway signs and the Polar-Equator Trail— along a line including Mission Point Light near Traverse City, the...

cylindrical projections the scale along the equator is k=1 and in general the scale changes as we move off the equator. Analysis of scale on the projection map...

the equator. In any ellipsoid, the length of a degree of longitude at the equator is exactly 60 geographical miles. The Earth's radius at the equator in...

given by its latitude, measured in angular degrees north or south of the Equator. On a Mercator projection or on a Gall-Peters projection, each meridian...

(Greek: Μονόκερως, "unicorn") is a faint constellation on the celestial equator. Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century cartographer Petrus Plancius...

and diminishes with lower latitude until it no longer exists at Earth's equator. Foucault introduced his pendulum in 1851 in the first experiment to give...

Ushuaia, Argentina The closest to the equator in the northern hemisphere is near Liang, China The closest to the equator in the southern hemisphere is near...

celestial equator. The ecliptic coordinate system uses the ecliptic. The galactic coordinate system uses the Milky Way's galactic equator. Plane of reference...

gods Anu, Enlil, and Ea. They associated Ea with the stars nearest to the equator, while those near the poles were assigned to Enlil, and the central stars...

had collided with Congo, Amazonia, and Baltica. Laurentia lay along the equator. Recent evidence suggests that South America and Africa never quite joined...

reference can be aligned with the Earth's celestial equator, the ecliptic, or the Milky Way's galactic equator. These 3D celestial coordinate systems add actual...

shear. A minimum distance of 500 km (310 mi) from the equator (about 4.5 degrees from the equator) is normally needed for tropical cyclogenesis. The Coriolis...

The city is located in the north temperate zone, 38 degrees north of the equator. Athens is built around a large number of hills. Lycabettus is one of the...

return. A free return trajectory could only reach sites near the lunar equator; a hybrid trajectory, which could be started at any point after TLI, allowed...

deities. The path of Anu is considered as a belt around the celestial equator with a width of roughly ±17° that is divided in twelve equal parts of 30°...

overlooks the bay.[disputed – discuss] In 2021, a local coffee company, Equator Coffees, leased the site. The diner was renovated in 2012 and the gift...

2 km (2.0 mi) east of Java, and is approximately 8 degrees south of the equator. Bali and Java are separated by the Bali Strait. East to west, the island...

any two symmetric pairs of points can be thought of as equators of the octahedron. These equators have the property (by their symmetry) that opposite pairs...

as Kogelo, is a village in Siaya County, Kenya. It is located near the equator, 60 kilometres (37 mi) west-northwest of Kisumu, the provincial capital...

Berbera beach Sacadin, Zeila Archipelago Somaliland is located north of the equator. It is semi-arid. The average daily temperatures range from 25 to 35 °C...

Lepus is a constellation lying just south of the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for hare. It is located below—immediately south—of Orion (the hunter)...

acetylene at Neptune's equator is 10–100 times greater than at the poles. This is interpreted as evidence for upwelling at the equator and subsidence near...

water becomes denser and sinks. The cold water moves back towards the equator as a deep sea current, driven by changes in the temperature and density...

an eastward-flowing subsurface current that extends the length of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The Cromwell Current was discovered in 1952 by Townsend...

administers the Galápagos Islands, a group of volcanic islands that sit on the equator, famous for their unique biodiversity popularized by naturalist Charles...

spiraling columns of air often develop in tropical areas close to the equator, and are less common at high latitudes. Similar phenomena in nature include...

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Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes;...

(the apparent gravity) is about 0.5% greater at the poles than at the Equator. Although the symbol ɡ is sometimes used for standard gravity, ɡ (without...

If the tangent point is on the equator then the meridians are parallel but not equally spaced (Fig 3 below). The equator is a straight line perpendicular...

visible at noon). Its latitude is approximately 66°33′47.1″ south of the Equator. Contrast Arctic Circle. antecedent stream A stream or other watercourse...

Mercator, and then the result is multiplied by 5⁄4 to retain scale along the equator. Hence: x = λ y = 5 4 ln ⁡ [ tan ⁡ ( π 4 + 2 φ 5 ) ] = 5 4 sinh − 1 ⁡ (...

another planet in the distant past. The inclination of Iapetus to Saturn's equator varies between 5 and 21° over Iapetus's nodal precession period of about...

the free dictionary. Earth's equator the tropics, the Earth's equatorial region tropical climate the Celestial equator equatorial orbit equatorial coordinate...

nightward of the magnetic pole so that auroral arcs reach furthest toward the equator when the magnetic pole in question is in between the observer and the Sun...

south points on the horizon, and it is perpendicular to the celestial equator and horizon. Meridians, celestial and geographical, are determined by the...

flyby, Nix was rotating with a period of 43.9 hours retrograde to Pluto's equator with an axial tilt of 132 degrees — it was rotating backwards in relation...

occupying 2,344,858 square kilometres (905,355 sq mi). The country lies on the equator. Most of the country lies within the vast hollow of the Congo River Basin...

projection in which the equator is represented as a straight horizontal line perpendicular to a central meridian that is one-half the equator's length. The other...

sign and they are separated by 30°. The intersection of the celestial equator and the ecliptic define the equinoctial points: First Point of Aries ()...

little over 70 minutes at the Equator, to many hours in the polar regions. The period of twilight is shortest at the Equator, where the equinox Sun rises...

Cape Palmas in Liberia. Null Island, defined as the intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude), is in the gulf...

latitude, with stronger patterns observed in regions farther from the equator. Number of new cases of tuberculosis per 100,000 people, 2022 Map showing...

between 34 and 48 kg (75 and 106 lb). Cougar size is smallest close to the equator and larger towards the poles. The largest recorded cougar, shot in 1901...

distance roughly equivalent to travelling half-way around the world at the equator. A notable modern phenomenon is the formation of ice volcanoes over the...

dictionary. An Equinox is the instant of time when the plane of Earth's equator passes through the center of the Sun, which occurs twice each year: March...

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third city to host the Games in Australia and the fourth south of the equator. As of 2024 there have been a total of 44 sports, spanning 65 disciplines...

period of the Neoproterozoic, when global ice sheets may have reached the equator and created a "Snowball Earth" lasting about 100 million years. The earliest...

tropical and subtropical regions that exist in a broad band around the equator. This includes much of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In...

covered the entire planet, or whether a band of open sea survived near the equator (i.e. "slushball Earth"), but the extreme climates with massive expanse...

a monument marking the point where the Greenwich Meridian crosses the Equator. The rock was set at Tema Harbour, Ghana, on the platform of Meridian Port...

island. Sriharikota was selected by ISRO because of its proximity to the equator, it gives extra centripetal force from the rotation of Earth. Sriharikota...

Aryabhatiya, but his "Lanka" is an abstraction, standing for a point on the equator at the same longitude as his Ujjayini. It is fairly certain that, at some...

granted all German possessions in the Pacific north of the equator and those south of the equator went to Australia, except for German Samoa, which was taken...

come from the common belief that the midfield line lies exactly on the Equator—zero latitude—thus causing each team to defend one hemisphere. The stadium...

famous in 2001 after completing a one-year, 6-month solo journey around the equator without any motorised transport. In 2004 he completed a two-year, 3-month...

from service. During 1984, the ship was renamed twice (Majorca Rose and Equator) and changed ownership several times. In 1985, she was acquired by Adriatic...

the center. Chimborazo is one degree south of the Equator and the Earth's diameter at the Equator is greater than at the latitude of Everest (8,848 m...

cyclone that formed at about 85 nautical miles (100 mi; 160 km) from the equator—closer than any other tropical cyclone on record. The last storm of the...

Acoustic representation of the speed of light: in the period between beeps, light travels the circumference of Earth at the equator....

Earth's circumference is the distance around Earth. Measured around the equator, it is 40,075.017 km (24,901.461 mi). Measured passing through the poles...

Brazil. Macapá is linked by road with some other cities in Amapá. The equator runs through the middle of the city, leading residents to refer to Macapá...

flow connotes a tendency of flux to conform to a pattern parallel to the equator of a sphere. In meteorological term regarding atmospheric circulation,...

named Planum Boreum. The southern cap is called Planum Australe. Mars's equator is defined by its rotation, but the location of its Prime Meridian was...

on Earth. As part of the Hadley model of atmospheric circulation, the equator is characterised by the ascending branches of separate meridional cells...

more than 20% of the Earth's area. Most of these regions are far from the equator and near the poles, and in this case, winter days are extremely short and...

Distortion of scale increases to 1.0010 at the zone boundaries along the equator. In each zone the scale factor of the central meridian reduces the diameter...

archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the equator, 485 nautical miles (898 km; 558 mi) west of the mainland of South America...

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total 13 millimetres or 0.51 inches.[citation needed] Located near the equator, Lagos has only a slight seasonal temperature variation, with mean high...

torrid zone and is among the hottest countries in the world. The thermal equator (which matches the hottest spots year-round on the planet based on the...

N) or 0-N may refer to: 0N or 0°N, an expression of the latitude of the equator Zero norm in mathematics HP 0N, ISO/IEC 8859-1 character set on printers...

of the gnomon is a quadrant of a circle, parallel to the plane of the equator. The instrument can be used with an accuracy of about 20 seconds by a skilled...

criticized throughout the 20th century for enlarging regions further from the equator. To contrast, equal-area projections such as the Sinusoidal projection...

Time Zone with no daylight saving time, due to how close it is to the equator. This is also true in Puerto Rico. "Time Zones in US Virgin Islands". www...

annual temperature gap between equator and poles, while greater tilt means a smaller annual temperature gap between equator and poles. (At an extreme tilt...

daylight saving time, but not since 2021. Although Kiribati spans both the equator and the 180th meridian, the International Date Line goes around Kiribati...

surrounds Kiribati, and the sun refers to Kiribati's position astride the Equator. The flag is derived from a badge designed by Sir Arthur Grimble in 1931[citation...

satellites are in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles (35,785 km) above the equator, so that the satellite appears stationary at the same point in the sky;...

point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial equator, heading northward as seen from Earth. The March equinox is known as the...

largest canyon in the Solar System. Valles Marineris is located along the equator of Mars, on the east side of the Tharsis Bulge, and stretches for nearly...

Furthermore, its rate of rotation varies with latitude, rotating faster at the equator than at the poles. In observations of the solar disk, cardinal directions...

badge inside a globe showing longitude and latitude lines as well as the equator. The badge had a black, diagonal band with "S.F.C." in white text. The...

between 900 and 1,100 police officers in Samoa. Samoa lies south of the equator, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, in the Polynesian region...

constraints limited the landing site to Oceanus Procellarum on the lunar equator, which the lander ideally would reach 66 hours after launch. No cameras...

Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth...

Galactic Center, a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to approximately 1/1300...

fluctuates. It is rotating rapidly with a speed of 236 km/s at the equator. This causes the equator to bulge outward due to centrifugal effects, and, as a result...

the Equator, and reaches minimum heights over the poles. On account of this, the coolest layer in the atmosphere lies at about 17 km over the equator. Due...

constellation discovered on 7 November 1885, appearing around the celestial equator being partially visible to both hemispheres during specific times of the...

[skjapaˈrɛlli]) is an impact crater on Mars, located near the planet's equator at latitude 2.7° south and longitude 16.7° east in the Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle...

from sunlight due to living in high latitudes (farther distance from the equator with resultant shorter daylight hours in winter). Serum concentration by...

greater the farther one moves away from the equator. DST is of little use for locations near the Equator, because these regions see only a small variation...

the Equator, the city was featured in the BBC television travel documentary Equator made in 2006, since it was one of the few places near the Equator in...

example, a satellite in Sun-synchronous orbit might ascend across the equator twelve times a day, each time at approximately 15:00 mean local time. Special...

whaler, and in October 700 barrels. On October 24, the Acushnet crossed the equator to the north, and six or seven days later arrived at the Galápagos Islands...

and lowlands with swamps, mangrove forest and complex river systems. The equator crosses the island at its centre in West Sumatra and Riau provinces. The...

18:00 clock time, even in winter, despite lying 42 degrees north of the equator. Near the summer solstice, Vigo has sunset times after 22:00, similar to...

occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of the Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These...

contributions, the geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometres (22,000 mi) above the equator is officially recognised by the International Astronomical Union as the...

lying in the planet's northern hemisphere and the other just south of the equator. The northern continent is called Ishtar Terra after Ishtar, the Babylonian...

coordinate (Φ or y), such as latitude (negative number south of equator and positive north of equator) Second horizontal coordinate (λ or x), such as longitude...

weaker at the equator than at the poles by an amount equal (at least asymptotically) to five fourths the centrifugal force at the equator. In 1742, Colin...

South Pole. The plane onto which the projection is made is that of the Equator. The tympanum captures the celestial coordinate axes upon which the rete...

from sin σ or cos σ to preserve numerical accuracy near the poles and equator If sin σ = 0 the value of sin α is indeterminate. It represents an end...

as a sphere or ellipsoid) using latitude (degrees north or south of the equator) and longitude (degrees west or east of a prime meridian). Geocentric coordinate...

rotated by 90° East about the celestial equator. M50: This frame is similar to J2000, but is defined with the mean equator and equinox at the beginning of the...

sunshine hours are comparable to Juneau, Alaska, 20° farther from the equator. Frost is unknown below elevations of 500 metres (1,600 ft), and summer...

thanks to a 2-cm-thick retractor muscle attached around the eye at the equator, but are unable to roll the eyes in their sockets. According to Fristrup...

sought reinforcements. Pizarro's pilot, sailing south and crossing the equator, captured a raft from Tumbes. To his surprise, the raft carried coveted...

hours. Its orbit is very slightly eccentric and inclined to the Jovian equator, with the eccentricity and inclination changing quasi-periodically due...

neutron stars, its radius is constrained to be less than 16 km. At its equator it is spinning at approximately 24% of the speed of light, or over 70,000 km...

Intertropical Convergence Zone, a continuous belt of low-pressure systems near the equator which bring the brief, short and irregular rainy season to the Sahel and...

Cartier Investments acquired HandMade from Paragon. In June 1999, The Equator Group plc became the exclusive distributor and manager of the HandMade...

which included the already Japanese-held Micronesia islands north of the equator that were part of the former colony of German New Guinea of the German...

scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean...

Kellough only began to draw together the poems that would become Magnetic Equator after an encounter with Dionne Brand at a literary festival in 2017. ——...

are on the sphere, but the meridians and continents are distorted. The equator and the central meridian are the most accurate parts of the map, having...

region includes the two zones of energetic charged particles above the equator known as the Van Allen radiation belts, which can damage satellites’ electronic...

equatorial ridge is a topographic ridge that follows a celestial body's equator. At least three of Saturn's moons host equatorial ridges: the large moon...

variations and relatively mild temperatures due to its proximity to the equator. Bushland / Lower Slope:, 800 to 1,800 m (2,600 to 5,900 ft) Rainforest:...

some scholars have pointed out that the constellation is on the celestial equator and thus the stars rotating in the night sky may have been associated with...

latitudes, they are most common near the equator. Their average size increases the more distant from the equator. It has been suggested that these types...

for measurement of the positions of astronomical objects is the Earth's equator — the so-called equatorial coordinate system. The effect of precession...

Earth. Earth is also rotating from west to east, at about 28 km/min at the Equator, but as the Moon is moving in the same direction as Earth's rotation at...

Earth's equatorial plane. It is approximate at the midpoint between the equator (0 degrees) and the Arctic Circle (66.6 degrees North Latitude.) It crosses...

the Western Hemisphere (for an east-west notational system). Unlike the equator, which also divides a spherical celestial body into two hemispheres, the...

its role for navigation and geography was similar to that played by the Equator today. From 7 April 1991 to 31 December 1996, the parallel defined the...

scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean...

development. On the other hand, light-skinned people who live near the equator, where there is abundant sunlight, are at an increased risk of folate depletion...

experiencing particularly severe cooling. The cooling of the tropics reduced the equator to a polar temperature gradient, which in turn reduced the strength of...

part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. Situated slightly north of the equator, over 90% of its territory is covered by rainforest, the second-highest...

which is native to marshlands in the uplands of Africa, southwards of the equator. Levaillant's cisticola was formally described in 1842 by the German naturalist...

a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator. A feature of a Kelvin wave is that it is non-dispersive, i.e., the phase...

celestial equator are circumpolar, and likewise for constellations south of the celestial equator as viewed from the South Pole. As viewed from the Equator, there...

are brighter than the equator, due to rapid rotation and oblate shape. When a star is oblate, it has a larger radius at its equator than it does at its...

kind of spheroidal joint in which the socket covers the sphere beyond its equator. Examples of this form of articulation are found in the hip, where the...

gunfire support, interrupted by a visit to Singapore and a crossing of the Equator on 8 February 1967, Maddox departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, for...

size of the earth, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. In the SI, the standard metre is now defined as exactly...

The Indian plate is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the Indian Ocean. Originally a part of the ancient continent of Gondwana, the Indian...

Location Latitude m/s2 Absolute difference from equator Percentage difference from equator Equator 0° 9.7803 0.0000 0% Sydney 33°52′ S 9.7968 0.0165 0...

of southeast Asia, and the only one that occurs naturally south of the equator. Pinus merkusii is a medium-sized to large tree, reaching 25–45 metres...

has a little under 2,000 permanent inhabitants. The island straddles the equator. The original Spanish name of Isabela ([isaˈβela]) was Santa Isabela Island...

as the Doldrums. The ITCZ would be expected to overlie the geographic equator according to symmetric solar radiation. However, the ITCZ is mostly perennial...

Convergence Zone drops one to two degrees south of the equator, not far enough from the equator for the Coriolis force to significantly aid development...

Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes;...

earliest book titled North Borneo – Explorations and Adventures in the Equator (1886) based on the exploration notes leave by his son Frank Hatton, who...

because the shape of the Earth is not spherical. Sea level closer to the equator is several kilometres farther from the centre of the Earth. The summit...

is a group of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the equator (orbital position) and with a transmitting footprint over Asia, Europe...

and atmospheric waves trapped close to the equator, meaning that they decay rapidly away from the equator, but can propagate in the longitudinal and vertical...

December 21. The two instants when the Sun is directly overhead at the Equator are the equinoxes. Also at that moment, both the North Pole and the South...

southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. Singapore is also a city-state. Airports in Singapore Airport names shown...

approximately, the geostationary orbit, which lies in the plane of the Earth's equator. Polar mounts are popular with home television receive-only (TVRO) satellite...

(780 km) from southernmost, Arorae, as the crow flies. Geographically, the equator is the dividing line between the northern and southern Gilbert Islands...

southernmost fringes of the continent have a Mediterranean climate. The equator runs through the middle of Africa, as do the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic...

temperature during the day to form liquid water on its surface on the equator, if only the pressure were higher. Artists' impressions It is not known...

seconds (30,000 kilometres per hour (19,000 mph) rotation speed at the equator on the surface). As of 2016[update], SGR 1806-20 is the most highly magnetized...

Ocean, north of the equator, and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the dateline and north of the equator are called hurricanes;...

Philippines, Manila lies entirely within the tropics. Its proximity to the equator means that temperatures are hot year-round, rarely going below 15 °C or...

latitude that is 30 degrees south of the Earth's equator. It stands one-third of the way between the equator and the South Pole and crosses Africa, the Indian...

Sudanian savanna and the Guineo-Congolian forests that lie nearer the equator. The name Sudan derives from Arabic بلاد السودان (bilād as-sūdān) 'Land...

(tilt relative to the Earth's equator) and are separated by 60° right ascension of the ascending node (angle along the equator from a reference point to the...

the Sun is 23.44°. Likewise, the Sun's declination from the celestial equator is 23.44°. In areas outside the tropics, the sun reaches its highest elevation...

Joanna Symons (21 March 2005). "Seychelles: Life's a breeze near the equator" Archived 4 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Telegraph.co.uk. "africanhistory...

gradient, with it being more common in people who live farther from the equator (e.g., those who live in northern regions of the world), although exceptions...

from west to east, straying no more than two degrees of latitude from the Equator. Starting in Libreville (Gabon), Vladimir had successfully crossed (in...

family. It is native to Ecuador and Peru. Guzmania 'Candy Corn' Guzmania 'Equator' Guzmania 'Graaf Van Hoorn' Guzmania 'Lollipop' Guzmania 'Torch' "Guzmania...

6 °F) and 2,970 mm (116.9 in) on the more northerly islands closer to the Equator. The average wettest period is around March, with on average 263 mm (10...

the opposite points off its equator, which is a movable brass ring set into the globe in a groove all around its equator. The globe may be turned by hand...

49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic...

The two hottest places on the equator are therefore at longitudes 0° W and 180° W, and the coolest points on the equator are at longitudes 90° W and 270° W...

(1995–2007) Suzuki CV1 (1981–1985) Suzuki Every Plus/Landy (1999–2005) Suzuki Equator (2008–2012) Suzuki Forenza/Reno (2004–2008) Suzuki Fronte (1962–1989) Suzuki...

cycling expeditions. She has cycled more than twice around the world at the equator. Leeming was raised in Northam, rural Western Australia, graduating from...

scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean...

equator; the Y column can be multiplied by 0.2536 to obtain the ratio of the distance of that parallel from the equator to the length of the equator....

launched near the equator in an easterly direction, as this maximizes use of the Earth's rotational speed (465 m/s at the equator). Such launches also...

April 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016. Twain, Mark (1897). "L". Following the Equator: A journey around the world. Hartford, Connecticut: American Pub. Co. ISBN 0-404-01577-8...

north, a circle of latitude just above the Equator 1st parallel south, a circle of latitude just below the Equator First Avenue (disambiguation) First Street...

occurring within approximately 5 degrees latitude north and south of the Equator. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pseudopontia mabira. Wikispecies...

faces follow its equator, 5 above and 5 below it; each of these 10 rhombi has 2 of its 4 sides lying on this zig-zag skew decagon equator. The rhombic icosahedron...

covering an area of approximately 5 millions km2. It extends from the equator, where the springs of the White Nile River are located, to the source of...

Solok Equator Luak 50 Kota Football Club (simply known as SEL 50 Kota) is an Indonesian football club based in Lima Puluh Kota Regency, West Sumatra....

margins that helped drive up global temperatures. Laurentia lay across the equator, separated from Gondwana by the opening Iapetus Ocean. The Cambrian marked...

period (at dawn or dusk). The blue hour is shorter in regions near the equator due to the sun rising and setting at steep angles. In places closer to...

the prevailing easterly winds along the tropics and subtropics near the equator. They can lead to the formation of tropical cyclones in the north Atlantic...

astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for...

mantle. It finally reached the crust's surface, about 30° south of the equator as part of an ocean ridge, in the Rheic Ocean. Over the next 80 million...

16°S to 66°S: this latitude division is not symmetric with respect to the equator thus giving rise to the later criticism of a Euro-centric projection. It...

one circuit around the globe each day, approximately moving along the equator. However, it will also move north and south between the tropics over the...

explorer of the African coast. He was the first European sailor to cross the equator, the first to reach the point where the coast turns south and the first...

scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean...

in the Southern Hemisphere. In the tropics (less than about 8° from the equator), the constellation transits at the zenith. From May to July (summer in...

period.[needs update] The basin occupies all the territory north of the equator and west of the International Date Line, including the South China Sea...

his journey in a volume entitled Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. His observations on altitude sickness led him to conclude that it was...

computing resources were minimal. a {\displaystyle a} = radius of the equator of the chosen spheroid (e.g. 6378137 m for GRS80/WGS84) b {\displaystyle...

the evenings and the mornings are only separated by a half-year at the equator, and at other latitudes set apart by different fractions of the year. Relative...

elevation moderates temperatures year-round, and the city's position near the Equator means that temperatures are very constant from month to month. As such...

parallels make it easy to compare how far north or south places are from the equator. Meridians are evenly spaced along any line of latitude. Software for implementing...

other in a perpetual war in a disputed area mostly located around the equator. All that Oceania's citizens know about the world is whatever the Party...

on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator. Although there are two such intersections, the equinox associated with...

officially adopted the Equator Principles, the majority of international Project Finance debt in emerging and developed markets. Equator Principles Financial...

gravitational acceleration being about 0.5% greater at the poles than at the equator. British physicist Isaac Newton explained this in his Principia Mathematica...

Department. Barranquilla is located at latitude 10° 59' 16" north of the Equator and longitude 74° 47' 20" west of Greenwich, with reference to the Plaza...

the Giza pyramid complex are aligned on a "leaning equator" of 30 degrees from the traditional equator, along with other archaeological sites : Easter Island...

Republic of East Timor). "Equator" in Spanish, truncated from the Spanish República del Ecuador (lit. "Republic of the Equator"), from the former Ecuador...

with figures above] seen on Io's anti-Jupiter hemisphere and along the equator, and temporally in the early afternoon when the temperature of surface...

parallel north, a circle of latitude above the Equator 8th parallel south, a circle of latitude below the Equator 8th Street (disambiguation) Eighth Avenue...

acting scope in historical drama Gyebaek, revenge thriller Man from the Equator, and made a guest appearance in medical drama Brain. In 2012, Lee co-starred...

kilometres (94,926 sq mi) of West Africa, about 10 degrees north of the equator. It is divided into 4 natural regions: Maritime Guinea (La Guinée Maritime)...

(DRC) and Uganda, with its northern shore a few kilometres south of the equator. Welsh explorer Henry Morton Stanley first saw the lake in 1888, during...

French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle through Paris, setting 10000 km...

more northerly birds tend to outsize those found relatively closer to the Equator. Average size also decreases from west to east across its distribution...

the equator, where the widths are maximum (listing width x height where those differ). The block widths decrease with distance from the equator. The...

the axis of rotation. As a result, cyclones rarely form within 5° of the equator. South Atlantic tropical cyclones are very rare due to consistently strong...

In the south-west Indian Ocean, tropical cyclones form south of the equator and west of 90° E to the coast of Africa. In 1946, Réunion's first airstrip...

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in people of Asian descent, more common in countries farther from the equator, relatively uncommon in African Americans, and extremely uncommon in Native...

this task of checking one's own compliance with the latest standards: The EQUATOR Network The BioSharing collaboration (biosharing.org) Several important...

subtropical cyclones form in the basin, which is west of 90°E and south of the Equator. However, tropical cyclones can form year-round with any cyclone forming...

one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris, assuming an Earth flattening of ⁠1/334⁠. Following...

is the only constellation crossed by all three of the galactic equator, celestial equator, and ecliptic. A ring-like galactic structure known as Gould's...

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migrate between feeding areas towards the poles and breeding areas near the equator. Their diet consists mostly of krill and small fish, and they usually use...

tracks a theoretical mean Sun with uniform motion along the celestial equator. Apparent solar time can be obtained by measurement of the current position...

Highway. Quitsato Sundial, located on the Equator in Cayambe, Ecuador. Balcon 2 Hemisferios, located on the Equator in Cayambe, Ecuador. Two Otavalo girls...

geometry, a monogon can be constructed as a vertex on a great circle (equator). This forms a dihedron, {1,2}, with two hemispherical monogonal faces...

and Antarctic) around the poles, an uninhabitable torrid clime near the equator, and two temperate climes between the frigid and the torrid ones. Different...

slope is the highest point in the world crossed by the Equator, and the only point on the Equator with snow cover. The ice cap covers an area of about 22 km2...

Soviet Union in 1946 under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement and renamed Equator (Russian: Экватор) and later renamed Admiral Makarov (Russian: Адмирал...

poles. The "equator" is the outer edge of the lens often hidden by the iris and is the area of most cell differentiation. As the equator is not generally...

dark feature. Dark spots may dissipate when they migrate too close to the equator, or possibly through some other unknown mechanisms. Following the Great...

parallel north, a circle of latitude above the Equator 3rd parallel south, a circle of latitude below the Equator 3rd Street (disambiguation) Third Avenue (disambiguation)...

The steeper surfaces are glazed to admit daylight and face away from the equator to shield workers and machinery from direct sunlight. This kind of roof...

"About the Equator Principles". Equator Principles Association. Retrieved 8 March 2026. "EP4 — The Equator Principles (2020)". Equator Principles Association...

is 2437. Located about 1520 metres from the equator, it is the closest village in Sulawesi to the equator. Sibualong has a tropical rainforest climate...

Earth is not a perfect sphere, the length of one minute of arc at the Equator differs from that measured at the geographic poles; thus the modern internationally...

dramatic temperature differences between the higher latitudes and the equator are thought to have resulted in drier conditions in the subtropics. Independent...

17th century in the indigenous region of Mairi, located 160 km from the equator. Until the beginning of the sixteenth century, Portugal showed no interest...

is so named as it lies on the 8-degree line of Latitude, north of the equator. Another local name for this channel is Addigiri Kandu. This channel appeared...

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Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile and is the tidewater glacier nearest the equator. It calves into the Laguna San Rafael and is contained within Laguna San...

and its surface gravity varies between 700 g at the poles and 3 g at its equator. The story is told from the points of view of one of the local intelligent...

{\displaystyle \varphi _{1}} are the standard parallels (north and south of the equator) where the scale of the projection is true; φ 0 {\displaystyle \varphi...

Bergmann's rule (that widespread animals should be smaller closer to the Equator) as body mass seemed to increase further south, being lightest in Sweden...

"2009 Suzuki Equator". The Commercial Appeal. Retrieved 2 October 2013. The Nissan Frontier is ideally suited as the basis for the Equator, which is scheduled...

30 °C (86 °F), and 24 °C (75 °F) respectively. Being fairly close to the equator, the island's temperature does not fluctuate much between winter and summer...

The Somali plate is a minor tectonic plate which straddles the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is currently in the process of separating from the...