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• ANTIPODES (Gr. avri, opposed to, and 7r6 es, feet)

ANTIPODES (Gr. avri, opposed to, and 7r6 es, feet)  , a See also:

• TERM

term applied strictly to any two peoples or places on opposite sides of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, so situated that a See also:

• LINE

line See also:

• DRAWN

drawn from the one to the other passes through the centre of the globe and forms a true See also:

• DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter . Any two places having this relation—as See also:

• LONDON

London and, approximately, See also:

• ANTIPODES (Gr. avri, opposed to, and 7r6 es, feet)

Antipodes See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, near New See also:

• ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand—must be distant from each other by 180° of See also:

• LONGITUDE (from Lat. longitudo, " length ")

longitude, and the one must be as many degrees to the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of the See also:

• EQUATOR (Late Lat. aequator, from aequare, to make equal)

equator as the other is to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south, in other words, the latitudes are numerically equal, but one is north and the other south . See also:

• NOON

Noon at the one See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place is midnight at the other, the longest See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day corresponds to the shortest, and See also:

• MID

mid-See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter is contemporaneous with mid-summer . In the calculation of days and nights, midnight on the one See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side may be regarded as corresponding to the noon either of the previous or of the following day . If a voyager See also:

• SAIL

sail eastward, and thus anticipate the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun, his dating will be twelve See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours in advance, while the reckoning of another who has been sailing westward will be as much in arrear . There will thus be a difference of twenty-four hours between the two when they meet . To avoid the confusion of See also:

• DATES

dates which would thus arise, it is necessary to determine a See also:

• MERIDIAN
• MERIDIAN (from the Lat. meridianus, pertaining to the south or mid-day)

meridian at which dates should be brought into agreement, i.e. a line the See also:

• CROSSING

crossing of which would involve the changing of the name of the day either forwards, when proceeding westwards, or backwards, when proceeding eastwards . Mariners have generally adopted the meridian 18o° from See also:

• GREENWICH

Greenwich, situated in the Pacific Ocean, as a convenient line for co-ordinating dates . The so-called " See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

International Date Line," which is, however, practically only due to See also:

• AMERICAN

American initiative, is designed to remove certain objections to the meridian of 18o° W., the most important of which is that See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups of islands lying about this meridian differ in date by a day although only a few See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles apart . Several forms have been suggested; these generally agree in retaining the meridian of 18o° in the mid Pacific, with a See also:

• BEND

bend in the north in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to make the Aleutian Islands and See also:

• ALASKA

Alaska of the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as See also:

• AMERICA

America, and also in the south so as to bring certain of the South See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea islands into line with See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia and New Zealand .