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...both possible and probable that sea currents during the next fortnight would crack a passageway through the pack at about the 180th degree of longitude. The two Byrd ships could then get through, load personnel and goods, and scurry back before the pack reformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying the Antarctic | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...Cartographers divide the South Polar regions into Pacific, Australian, African and American Quadrants. The Pacific Quadrant is between the 90th and 180th lines of west longitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mrs. Byrd's Land | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...International Date Line runs down the 180th parallel of longitude from the North Pole almost to Wrangel Island, then slants east to pass through Bering Strait, slants west again to Long. 180° again and on down to the South Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tolstoi Theory | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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