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The 42nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 42 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 15 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 6 minutes during the winter ...
There are five major circles of latitude, listed below from north to south. The position of the Equator is fixed (90 degrees from Earth's axis of rotation) but the latitudes of the other circles depend on the tilt of this axis relative to the plane of Earth's orbit, and so are not perfectly fixed. The values below are for 11 February 2025: [2]
42nd parallel may refer to: 42nd parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere; 42nd parallel south, a circle of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere; The 42nd Parallel, a 1930 novel by John Dos Passos in his U.S.A. trilogy
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The Oregon Country/Columbia District stretched from 42°N to 54°40′N. The most heavily disputed portion is highlighted. The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.
In North America, the 42nd Parallel became agreed upon as the northward limit of exclusivity of claims by the Spanish Empire, as of the Nootka Convention of 1793 with Great Britain, a division-line adopted by the United States when it inherited by treaty Spanish claims and obligations in the region (see Oregon Country and Columbia District).
In the extreme case where the longitudinal separation is 180°, the distance along the parallel is one half of the circumference of that parallel; i.e., 10,007.5 km. On the other hand, the geodesic between these points is a great circle arc through the pole subtending an angle of 60° at the center: the length of this arc is one sixth of the ...