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NCERT Class 6 Geography Chapter 2: Globe Latitudes and Longitudes
NCERT Class 6 Geography Chapter 2: Globe - Latitudes & Longitudes
Globe
- Axis
- North Pole
- South Pole
- 1° = 60′
- 1′ = 60′′
Latitudes
Latitude is an angle, which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles.
Longitudes
Longitudes is the angular distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich meridian or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
International Date Line
- Separates two consecutive calendar days
- Has bends to include all of Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Tokelau in the
- Eastern Hemisphere.
- GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is now abbreviated as UTC
- (Coordinated Universal Time)
Old International Date Line And New International Date Line
Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of longitude, in Kakinada,
West And East Parallel
Time Zones of France
Daylight Saving Time
India does not observe daylight saving time (DSTu) or other seasonal adjustments.
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