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What is the line crossing the Pacific Ocean that is shown on maps?
Why is there a line of volcanoes along the northwest coast of North America?In the northern hemisphere only, what percentage of the surface is land?How can I find the nearest point on the coast from an ocean location?Great Lakes Earth: The AmericasWhat are the best maps, if any, we have of the convection cells in the Earth's mantle?Why is this area apparently unpopulated in the great Buenos Aires, what is it?What is the name of the sea in this image?What are these radial line patterns shown in representations of antarctica?What is the average color of dirt?What is the collective name for the seas of Indonesia?
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The picture below shows an imaginary line on the globe which crosses the Pacific Ocean and works as a rough separator of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is this line called in English? I'm trying to find the history behind its funny shape.
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What is this line called in English? I'm trying to find the history behind its funny shape.
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The picture below shows an imaginary line on the globe which crosses the Pacific Ocean and works as a rough separator of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is this line called in English? I'm trying to find the history behind its funny shape.
geography mapping
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The picture below shows an imaginary line on the globe which crosses the Pacific Ocean and works as a rough separator of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is this line called in English? I'm trying to find the history behind its funny shape.
geography mapping
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It's the international date line and marks the boundary between the time zones that are +12 and -12 hours from UTC / Greenwich. It should follow the +/-180 degree meridian line, but zigs and zags to include territories or islands within a "day" thus the Aleutians islands are in the same time zone as the Hawaiian islands.
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It's the international date line and marks the boundary between the time zones that are +12 and -12 hours from UTC / Greenwich. It should follow the +/-180 degree meridian line, but zigs and zags to include territories or islands within a "day" thus the Aleutians islands are in the same time zone as the Hawaiian islands.
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It's the international date line and marks the boundary between the time zones that are +12 and -12 hours from UTC / Greenwich. It should follow the +/-180 degree meridian line, but zigs and zags to include territories or islands within a "day" thus the Aleutians islands are in the same time zone as the Hawaiian islands.
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