parallel of latitude

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A demarcation line and demilitarized zone roughly six miles wide shall run at about the 17th parallel of latitude along the Benhai River.

From Time Magazine Archive

She sails a course like this:   Now suppose we draw a perpendicular line to represent a meridian of longitude and a horizontal one to represent a parallel of latitude.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

"On the North American continent, between the Arctic circle and the forty-second parallel of latitude," said Lyell, "we meet with signs of ice-action on a scale as grand, if not grander than in Europe."

From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.

The distinctness of the groups of indigenous plants, in the same parallel of latitude, is greatest where continents are disjoined by a wide expanse of ocean.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Here they separated, at about the 47th parallel of latitude.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Twiss, Travers