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
I should like to know in what parallel of latitude the man were to be found who does not fall out with his lady friend a thousand times oftener than with his male one.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
This particular New York convoy commander was now perhaps instructed to cross the thirtieth meridian at the fifty-second parallel of latitude, where he would be met by his escort.
From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.
Its breadth, measured on a parallel of latitude, attains its maximum between St. David's Head, in South Wales, and the Naze, in Essex, where it amounts to 280 miles.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
From the most southern point of Ontario on Lake Erie, near the 42nd parallel of latitude, to Moose Factory on James Bay, the distance is about 750 miles.
From History of Farming in Ontario by James, C. C. (Charles Canniff)
