50th parallel north
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The 50th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 50 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 16 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 4 minutes during the winter solstice.[1] The maximum altitude of the sun during the summer solstice is 63.44 degrees and during the winter solstice it is 16.56 degrees. During the summer solstice, nighttime does not get beyond astronomical twilight, a condition which lasts throughout the month of June. It is possible to view both astronomical dawn and dusk every day of the month of May.[2]
At this latitude, the average sea surface temperature between 1982 and 2011 was about 8.5 °C (47.3 °F).[3]
Around the world
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Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 50° north passes through:
Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes 50°0′N 0°0′E / 50.000°N 0.000°E / 50.000; 0.000 (Prime Meridian) English Channel 50°0′N 1°15′E / 50.000°N 1.250°E / 50.000; 1.250 (France) France
Upper Normandy — for about 20 km
Picardy — passing just north of Amiens
Nord-Pas-de-Calais — for about 13 km50°0′N 4°10′E / 50.000°N 4.167°E / 50.000; 4.167 (Belgium) Belgium
Wallonia 50°0′N 4°40′E / 50.000°N 4.667°E / 50.000; 4.667 (France) France
Champagne-Ardenne — for about 10 km 50°0′N 4°49′E / 50.000°N 4.817°E / 50.000; 4.817 (Belgium) Belgium
Wallonia 50°0′N 5°49′E / 50.000°N 5.817°E / 50.000; 5.817 (Luxembourg) Luxembourg
Diekirch District 50°0′N 6°9′E / 50.000°N 6.150°E / 50.000; 6.150 (Germany) Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Hesse
Rhineland-Palatinate — passing through Mainz city centre
Hesse — passing just south of Frankfurt, crossing a runway of FRA international airport and passing just south of DCF77 time signal transmitter
Bavaria — passing just north of Bayreuth50°0′N 12°26′E / 50.000°N 12.433°E / 50.000; 12.433 (Czech Republic) Czech Republic
Passing through southern parts of Prague 50°0′N 17°49′E / 50.000°N 17.817°E / 50.000; 17.817 (Poland) Poland
For about 11 km 50°0′N 17°58′E / 50.000°N 17.967°E / 50.000; 17.967 (Czech Republic) Czech Republic
For about 10 km 50°0′N 18°7′E / 50.000°N 18.117°E / 50.000; 18.117 (Poland) Poland
Passing through southern districts of Kraków (on the 20th meridian east)
Passing through southern districts of Tarnów (on the 21st meridian east)
Passing through southern districts of Rzeszów (on the 22nd meridian east)50°0′N 23°10′E / 50.000°N 23.167°E / 50.000; 23.167 (Ukraine) Ukraine
Lviv Oblast — passing just north of Lviv
Ternopil Oblast — passing through Pochaiv
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast — passing through Andrushivka
Kyiv Oblast
Cherkasy Oblast
Poltava Oblast — passing through Lubny
Kharkiv Oblast — passing through Kharkiv city centre50°0′N 37°57′E / 50.000°N 37.950°E / 50.000; 37.950 (Russia) Russia
Belgorod Oblast — for about 18 km 50°0′N 38°12′E / 50.000°N 38.200°E / 50.000; 38.200 (Ukraine) Ukraine
Luhansk Oblast — for about 12 km 50°0′N 38°22′E / 50.000°N 38.367°E / 50.000; 38.367 (Russia) Russia
Belgorod Oblast
Voronezh Oblast — passing just north of Boguchar
Rostov Oblast
Volgograd Oblast — passing just south of Kamyshin50°0′N 47°15′E / 50.000°N 47.250°E / 50.000; 47.250 (Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan
West Kazakhstan Province 50°0′N 48°8′E / 50.000°N 48.133°E / 50.000; 48.133 (Russia) Russia
Saratov Oblast 50°0′N 48°51′E / 50.000°N 48.850°E / 50.000; 48.850 (Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan
West Kazakhstan Province
Aktobe Province
Kostanay Province
Karagandy Province — passing just north of Karaganda
East Kazakhstan Province — passing just north of Oskemen50°0′N 85°2′E / 50.000°N 85.033°E / 50.000; 85.033 (Russia) Russia
Altai Republic
Tuva50°0′N 89°58′E / 50.000°N 89.967°E / 50.000; 89.967 (Mongolia) Mongolia
Passing through the southern tip of Uvs Lake 50°0′N 95°1′E / 50.000°N 95.017°E / 50.000; 95.017 (Russia) Russia
Tuva 50°0′N 95°45′E / 50.000°N 95.750°E / 50.000; 95.750 (Mongolia) Mongolia
For about 11 km 50°0′N 95°55′E / 50.000°N 95.917°E / 50.000; 95.917 (Russia) Russia
Tuva — for about 7 km 50°0′N 96°2′E / 50.000°N 96.033°E / 50.000; 96.033 (Mongolia) Mongolia
For about 11 km 50°0′N 96°10′E / 50.000°N 96.167°E / 50.000; 96.167 (Russia) Russia
Tuva 50°0′N 97°55′E / 50.000°N 97.917°E / 50.000; 97.917 (Mongolia) Mongolia
50°0′N 107°13′E / 50.000°N 107.217°E / 50.000; 107.217 (Russia) Russia
Buryatia — for about 5 km 50°0′N 107°18′E / 50.000°N 107.300°E / 50.000; 107.300 (Mongolia) Mongolia
For about 3 km 50°0′N 107°20′E / 50.000°N 107.333°E / 50.000; 107.333 (Russia) Russia
Buryatia
Zabaykalsky Krai50°0′N 113°34′E / 50.000°N 113.567°E / 50.000; 113.567 (Mongolia) Mongolia
50°0′N 115°12′E / 50.000°N 115.200°E / 50.000; 115.200 (Russia) Russia
Zabaykalsky Krai 50°0′N 116°1′E / 50.000°N 116.017°E / 50.000; 116.017 (Mongolia) Mongolia
50°0′N 116°20′E / 50.000°N 116.333°E / 50.000; 116.333 (Russia) Russia
Zabaykalsky Krai 50°0′N 119°6′E / 50.000°N 119.100°E / 50.000; 119.100 (China) People's Republic of China
Inner Mongolia
Heilongjiang50°0′N 127°29′E / 50.000°N 127.483°E / 50.000; 127.483 (Russia) Russia
Amur Oblast
Khabarovsk Krai50°0′N 140°30′E / 50.000°N 140.500°E / 50.000; 140.500 (Strait of Tartary) Strait of Tartary 50°0′N 142°9′E / 50.000°N 142.150°E / 50.000; 142.150 (Russia) Russia
Sakhalin Oblast — island of Sakhalin 50°0′N 143°59′E / 50.000°N 143.983°E / 50.000; 143.983 (Sea of Okhotsk) Sea of Okhotsk 50°0′N 155°23′E / 50.000°N 155.383°E / 50.000; 155.383 (Russia) Russia
Sakhalin Oblast — island of Paramushir 50°0′N 155°24′E / 50.000°N 155.400°E / 50.000; 155.400 (Pacific Ocean) Pacific Ocean 50°0′N 127°19′W / 50.000°N 127.317°W / 50.000; -127.317 (Canada) Canada
British Columbia — Vancouver Island (passing through the town of Campbell River) and mainland, also through the Okanagan Valley immediately north of Kelowna.
Alberta — passing through the city of Medicine Hat
Saskatchewan it passes a few km south of the cities of Swift Current, Moose Jaw and the capital, Regina
Manitoba — passing just north of Winnipeg
Ontario — passing through Lake Nipigon
Quebec - passing through the town of Port-Cartier50°0′N 66°54′W / 50.000°N 66.900°W / 50.000; -66.900 (Gulf of Saint Lawrence) Gulf of Saint Lawrence Passing just north of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada
50°0′N 57°45′W / 50.000°N 57.750°W / 50.000; -57.750 (Canada) Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland 50°0′N 56°46′W / 50.000°N 56.767°W / 50.000; -56.767 (White Bay) White Bay 50°0′N 56°21′W / 50.000°N 56.350°W / 50.000; -56.350 (Canada) Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland 50°0′N 55°52′W / 50.000°N 55.867°W / 50.000; -55.867 (Atlantic Ocean) Atlantic Ocean Confusion Bay 50°0′N 55°33′W / 50.000°N 55.550°W / 50.000; -55.550 (Canada) Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland 50°0′N 55°31′W / 50.000°N 55.517°W / 50.000; -55.517 (Atlantic Ocean) Atlantic Ocean Passing just north of the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom
50°0′N 5°16′W / 50.000°N 5.267°W / 50.000; -5.267 (United Kingdom) United Kingdom
England — Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, for about 7 km 50°0′N 5°10′W / 50.000°N 5.167°W / 50.000; -5.167 (English Channel) English Channel
Sakhalin island
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From the signing of the 1875 Treaty of Saint Petersburg until the Russo-Japanese War which broke in 1904, the Russian Empire had full control of Sakhalin island. As a result of the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth that brought an end to the Russo-Japanese War, the portion of the island south of the 50th parallel line became Japanese territory, part of Karafuto Prefecture. However, following the month long Soviet–Japanese War during the summer of 1945, the entire island was reunified under Soviet control.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year". U.S. Naval Observatory. 2019-09-24. Archived from the original on 2019-10-12. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
- ^ "Earth-Sun geometry - The Encyclopedia of Earth". www.eoearth.org.
- ^ "Zonal Mean Sea Surface Temperatures (5 deg Latitude Bands) Average of Jan 1982 to Dec 2011". Retrieved July 7, 2022.
- ^ Sevela, Mariya. "Sakhalin: the Japanese Under Soviet Rule". History Today. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
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