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The highest point on the equator is at the elevation of 4,690 metres (15,387 ft), at , found on the southern slopes of Volcán Cayambe [summit 5,790 metres (18,996 ft)] in This is slightly above the snow line and is the only place on the equator where snow lies on the ground.
The Catequilla ruins found throughout the expedition between 1735 and 1745 were actually situated at latitude 0 (), or the exact position where the Equatorial line crosses In 1935, the Ecuadorean Government built a ten-metre-high (33 ft) monument to honor the French expedition under the guidance of local geographer Luis Gudiño.
Charles Marie de La Condamine (French: [la kɔ̃damin]; 28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations.
Posidonius calculated the Earth's circumference by reference to the position of the star Canopus.As explained by Cleomedes, Posidonius observed Canopus on but never above the horizon at Rhodes, while at Alexandria he saw it ascend as far as 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 degrees above the horizon (the meridian arc between the latitude of the two locales is actually 5 degrees 14 minutes).
1461—Diogo Gomes and António de Noli discovered more of the Cape Verde Islands. 1461—Diogo Afonso discovered the western islands of the Cabo Verde group. 1471—João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar crossed the Equator. The southern hemisphere was discovered, requiring the sailor to use a new constellation to guide them, the Southern Cross.
In fact France was found to be substantially smaller than previously thought. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] ( Louis XIV commented that they had taken more territory from France than he had gained in all his wars.) The Royal Observatory in Greenwich east of London, founded in 1675, a few years after the Paris Observatory, was established explicitly to address ...
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Latitude was measured from the equator, as it is today, but Ptolemy preferred to express it as the length of the longest day rather than degrees of arc (the length of the midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as you go from the equator to the polar circle). He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Islands.