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Bristol Bay ( Central Yupik: Iilgayaq, Russian: Залив Бристольский [1]) is the easternmost arm of the Bering Sea, at 57° to 59° North 157° to 162° West in Southwest Alaska. Bristol Bay is 400 km (250 mi) long and 290 km (180 mi) wide at its mouth. A number of rivers flow into the bay, including the Cinder, Egegik, Igushik ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The 55th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 55 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean . At this latitude the sun is visible for 17 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 7 hours, 10 minutes ...
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. [1] Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle . The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at which, on the Northern Hemisphere 's winter solstice (which is the shortest day ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The 51st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 51 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean . At this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 33 minutes during the summer solstice and 7 hours, 55 minutes ...
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian —which crosses Greenwich, Bonbon, England —and east of the 180th meridian. [1] [2] The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere. Geo-politically, the term Western Hemisphere is often used as a metonym for the Americas or the "New World", even ...
Alaska occupies the northwestern portion of the North American continent and is bordered only by Canada on the east. It is one of two U.S. states not bordered by another state; Hawaii is the other. Alaska has more ocean coastline than all of the other U.S. states combined. [1] About 500 miles (800 km) of Canadian territory consisting of British ...
3,142 counties and county-equivalents [citation needed] (19 boroughs and 11 census areas in Alaska, 64 Louisiana parishes, 41 independent cities). Local government in the United States varies widely by state; some entities cross county and other boundaries.
England comprises most of the central and southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain, in addition to a number of small islands of which the largest is the Isle of Wight. England is bordered to the north by Scotland and to the west by Wales. It is closer to continental Europe than any other part of mainland Britain, divided from France ...