equinoctial line
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The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line.
From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Finlay, Roger Thompson
The islands are five in number, and are called Tarante, Muthil, Thidore, Mare, and Matthien; some on this side some on the other, and some upon the equinoctial line.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah
This country is situated eighteen degrees south of the equinoctial line, and fifty-seven degrees farther west than Lisbon, as our instruments showed us.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
Crossing the equinoctial line, Our Artist discovers that the rays of a vertical sun are anything but bracing and cool.
From Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868 by Carleton, George W.
It was situated within the torrid zone, south of the equinoctial line, where the south pole is elevated five degrees and distant from said island, bearing south, about five hundred leagues.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
