The 55th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 55 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.. At this latitude the sun is visible for 17 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 7 hours, 10 minutes during the winter solstice.. This latitude also roughly corresponds to the minimum …

Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Lake Shore Drive, and called DuSable Lake Shore Drive, The Outer Drive, The Drive, or LSD) is a multilevel expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan, and adjacent to parkland and beaches, in Chicago.Except for the portion north of Foster Avenue (5200 North), Lake Shore Drive is …

In 1818, diplomats of the two countries attempted to negotiate a boundary between the rival claims. The Americans suggested dividing the Pacific Northwest along the 49th parallel, which was the border between the United States and British North America east of the Rocky Mountains.The lack of accurate cartographic knowledge led American diplomats to declare the …

The MetLife Building (also 200 Park Avenue and formerly the Pan Am Building) is a skyscraper at Park Avenue and 45th Street, north of Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.As of 2021, the MetLife Building remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States.. The MetLife Building contains an elongated octagonal massing …

Park Avenue is a wide New York City boulevard which carries north and southbound traffic in the borough of Manhattan.For most of the road's length in Manhattan, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east. Park Avenue's entire length was formerly called Fourth Avenue; the title still applies to the section between Cooper Square and 14th Street.

Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base is a base of the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) in northeast Thailand, approximately 200 km (125 mi) northeast of Bangkok and about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the centre of the city of Nakhon Ratchasima in the Nakhon Ratchasima Province (also known as "Khorat" or "Korat"), the largest province in Thailand.. During the Vietnam War, from 1962 to …

A US Navy Lockheed EP-3E Aries II surveillance aircraft, BuNo 156511, coded 'PR-32', of VQ-1, collided with a Chinese Shenyang J-8IID fighter jet, reported as 81192, and was forced to make an emergency landing at Lingshui air base on Hainan Island, China. The U.S. crew was detained for 10 days; the Chinese fighter pilot, Wang Wei, was reported missing and presumed dead.

Description. The road's northeastern terminus is almost at the 55th parallel north, making it the northernmost continuous road in Eastern North America.Though the terminus is also the farthest point from any town via road in North America (745 kilometres or 463 miles from Radisson), is nonetheless relatively close – 190 kilometres (120 mi) – to Schefferville geographically.

Venezuela is a country in South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, between Colombia and Guyana.It is situated on major sea and air routes linking North and South America. Located at the northernmost end of South America, Venezuela has a total area of 912,050 km 2 (352,140 sq mi) and a land area of 882,050 km 2 (340,560 sq mi).

Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along its 5.5-mile (8.9-kilometer), 110-block route, Lexington Avenue runs through Harlem, Carnegie Hill, the Upper East Side, Midtown, and …