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Longitude and Latitude: Navigating the Globe with Precision
In this video, the teacher explains the significance of longitude and latitude in cartography and navigation. They discuss the challenges faced by explorers in determining longitude and how accurate timekeeping was the key. The teacher...
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The Longitude Problem
In an age before satellite navigation and GPS, one man found an ingenious solution to the problem of determining a ship's location at sea. Discover the relationship between place and time. Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements -...
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Early explorers
Find out how early explorers navigated the seas before they had maps to guide them. People and places - Mapping - Mapping the seas Learning Points Fifteenth-century explorers used dead reckoning to estimate longitude. Explorers in the...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 91: Ship's Chronometer From Hms Beagle 11 Oct 2010
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at an instrument that first helped Europeans to navigate with precision around the world - a marine chronometer. In particular the chronometer that accompanied Charles Darwin on his...