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    What is the latitude and longitude of the north pole and the south pole?

    Question #51498. Asked by rlaj. (Oct 06 04 9:35 PM)


    shady shaker

    		From what I can make out, the North Pole is 90 degrees north of the Equator, the South Pole is 90 degrees south of the Equator. Longitudinally, each is 45 degrees east of Greenwich. No doubt someone will be quick to point out that Iam wrong!

    Oct 06 04, 11:35 PM
    peasypod

    		This is a goodie...

    http://www.btinternet.com/~k.trethewey/latitude_and_longitude.htm

    Oct 07 04, 6:05 AM

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