To find a location on Google Maps by latitude and longitude, just enter the coordinates in the search box. You can find a location's latitude and longitude on a computer using a right-click; on a ...

At the equator, one degree of longitude and latitude both cover about 111 kilometers, or just under 70 miles. When we get away from the equator, this starts getting tricky. Longitude lines.

In the years after the sextant was invented in 1731, many held out hope that it would aid in east-west navigation as well—that is, in finding longitude.

This led to the formation of the Board of Longitude, which offered a £20,000 cash prize - equivalent to about £1.5m today - to anyone who could solve the “longitude problem”.