90 Degrees South Latitude Jun 17, 2006, 11:10am EDT Jul 16, 2012, 05:01pm EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old. ... While the North Pole's ice cap floats on water, ...

Latitude is a measurement of the distance north or south of the equator, with the North Pole being 90 degrees north, and the South Pole being, you guessed it, 90 degrees south. Longitude measures ...

In this system, the equator is at 0 degrees latitude, with the poles being at 90 degrees north and south. The prime meridian is at 0 degrees longitude, extending east and west.

Lines of longitude run north to south and lines of latitude, also called parallels, run west to east. Ninety degrees north latitude is the North Pole. Zero degrees is the Equator.

American Commander Robert Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson, and four Inuit men arrived at what was, according to Peary's reading of his sextant, exactly 90 degrees north latitude.

At exactly 45 degrees north latitude and 90 degrees west longitude in Marathon County, you will find the center of the northwest hemisphere. What makes the marker even more significant is that of ...

They found that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere's extra-tropical regions (between 30 and 90 degrees north latitude) 30 degrees north latitude were the hottest on record — 3.67 degrees ...