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
Their course lay almost exactly along the fifty-sixth parallel of latitude, and took them across Argyle, Dumbarton, and Stirlingshire to the head of the Firth of Forth.
From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith
The Fram had already drifted to the 84th parallel of latitude, farther North than had yet been attained.
From The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? by G. Firth Scott
The Alabama was now working her way eastward on the thirtieth parallel of latitude, and had got well into the middle of the Atlantic.
From Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Albert M. Goodrich
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 Ernest Gallaudet Draper
