How does latitudes and longitude are helpful in aviation and marine transportation
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While flying above the big oceans there are no landmarks for identifying the location.
Only the navigation instruments are quite useful to highlight the latitude and longitude of the pilot.
With the help of latitude and longitude direction, the pilot can able to pinpoint the exact direction of this travel.
It is also highly useful in marine transportation.
The most notable line of latitude is the equator which is in the middle and runs horizontally around the largest portion of the earth. The most significant longitude line is the Prime Meridian which appears vertically and passes through Greenwich, Britain.
When latitude and longitude positions are depicted on a map or globe, they devise a grid. If a sailor recognized both his latitudinal and longitudinal location on that grid, he can estimate out specifically where the ship was located at sea. To discover the ship's latitude, sailors employed a device called a sextant.