latitude

In a sentence

Six example sentences with latitude, each labelled with its topic.

• Quito sits almost exactly at zero latitude, so the sun rises near six and sets near six year-round.

  Travel

• Reindeer at high latitude endure weeks without sunrise, while species near the equator see twelve-hour days all year.

  Science

• Vineyards keep creeping toward higher latitude as growers chase the cooler summers that once existed much further south.

  Environment

• Sailors could fix their latitude from the noon sun centuries before any clock let them work out their longitude.

  History

• The phone stores each photo's latitude and longitude, so the map app can pin every shot to the street where it was taken.

  Technology

• At high latitude the golden hour stretches to three, and summer photographers shoot soft warm light until nearly midnight.

  Photography

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