42nd parallel north
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Location map-line Template:Side box The 42nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 42 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 15 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 6 minutes during the winter solstice.[1]
The earth's rotational speed at this latitude is roughly equal to the speed of sound.
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Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 42° north passes through:
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Gansu
Inner MongoliaScript error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Inner Mongolia
Hebei
Inner Mongolia
Hebei
Inner Mongolia
Hebei
Inner Mongolia
Liaoning
Inner Mongolia
Liaoning
JilinScript error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Passing through Heaven Lake on Baekdu Mountain Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Jilin (for about 8 km) Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". North Hamgyeong Province - Kaema Plateau
- Passing just north of Cheongjin
Passing just south of RaseonScript error: No such module "Coordinates". Sea of Japan Passing just south of Okushiri Island, Script error: No such module "flag". Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Island of Hokkaidō Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Pacific Ocean Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Island of Hokkaidō Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Pacific Ocean Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "flag". Oregon / California border
Oregon / Nevada border
Idaho / Nevada border
Idaho / Utah border
Wyoming
Nebraska
Iowa - passing through Cedar Rapids
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New York / Pennsylvania border
New York
Connecticut - running just south of the border with Massachusetts
Rhode Island - running just south of the border with Massachusetts
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United States
The parallel 42° north forms most of the New York–Pennsylvania border, although due to imperfect surveying in 1785–1786, this boundary wanders around on both sides of the true parallel. The area around the parallel in this region is known as the Twin Tiers.
The 42nd parallel became agreed upon as the northward limit of the Spanish Empire by the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819 with the United States, which established the parallel as the border between the Viceroyalty of New Spain of the Kingdom of Spain and the western territory of the United States of America from the meridian of the headwaters of the Arkansas River west to the Pacific Ocean.[2] The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 then ceded much of what was then northern Mexico to the United States; as a result, the northernmost U.S. states which were entirely created from Mexican territory (California, Nevada, and Utah) have the parallel 42° north as their border with the U.S. states of Oregon and Idaho.
The parallel passes through the states of Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and passes through (or near – within three-tenths degree of latitude) the following cities in the United States:
- Crescent City, California
- Yreka, California
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Ames, Iowa
- Chicago, Illinois
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Coldwater, Michigan
- Erie, Pennsylvania
- Jamestown, New York
- Busti, New York
- Binghamton, New York
- Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Springfield, Massachusetts
- Worcester, Massachusetts
- Foxborough, Massachusetts
- Ashland, Oregon
- Medford, Oregon
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Brookings, Oregon
Canada
The parallel 42° north passes through the southern end of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. Part of the water boundary between Canada and the United States passes south of the 42nd parallel. The southern tip of the Canadian province of Ontario just barely goes south of it at Point Pelee and Pelee Island, while the southernmost portion of the Town of Essex at Colchester is located below the 42nd parallel.
See also
- 41st parallel north
- 43rd parallel north
- The Twin Tiers region of New York and Pennsylvania
- The "Jefferson" region of Oregon and California
References
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