Essay - Oceanography Identifying the Current Location New York Belongs to the...

Oceanography

***** the current location

New York belongs to the state bearing the same name and is situated on the north-eastern coast of the U.S.A, at the point where the Hudson River flows into ***** Atlantic Ocean. The city's geographical coordin*****es are latitude 40047'N ***** longitude 73058' W. ***** city is renown for its cultural aura, but also for its financial, business, and trading organizations which play a major role to the national and world economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City).

***** ***** most surrounded by water

********** I looked at the globe, ***** land which seemed to be most surrounded by water was Antarctica. The continent is placed in the middle of the Southern Ocean or South Polar Ocean (which changed ***** name after be*****g initially labeled as the Antarctic *****) which ***** considered ***** be ***** fourth largest water area in the world. If I had to choose a specific location on this land, I would probably opt for ***** ***** Pole which has latitude of 90 degrees south and a ***** which can be described by any ***** the meridians converging at ***** pole. The most southern point of the Earth was first reached by people on December 14, 1911, as a result ***** the expedition organized by ***** Norwegian Roald Amundsen ***** his companions who *****d the camp Polheim. ********** observations and the data conveyed by the surveillance station emp*****ized that the South *****'s climate is one of the coldest on the *****, mainly because of ***** high altitude created ***** the 3000 meter-thick ice cap which tops the land lying near the sea level. The absence of sunlight, in the w*****ter, and the low position that ***** sun h***** in t*****e sky, during the ***** summer, explain temperatures raging from -650C in the cold season to -250 C in ***** warm one. ***** climate ***** resembles the desert profile because of the strong winds blowing the snow and the rare precipitations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole).

***** point most surrounded by ***** second look at the globe led me to the conclusion that Novosibirsk is ***** point where I ***** be ***** surrounded ***** land. Russia's third city after Moscow and Saint Petersburg ***** Si*****ria's ***** town, at the same time, has a latitude of 82.93E and a longitude ***** 55.02N. It was founded in 1893 and until 1925 ***** named Novonikolayevsk, ***** Tsar Nicholas II. The city is ***** along ***** Ob *****, compr*****ing a ***** ***** of 447.2km2 ***** a water area of 0 km2. It has a continental climate, defined by severe winters with temperatures ranging from -180C to - 200C, and hot, dry summers with temperatures between 200C and 250C. ***** town is the administrative center ***** Siberia Federal District and is famous for its cultural activities displayed by the local opera, ballet companies, art galleries, museums, and so forth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk).

Comparison ***** the land and water areas in the northern and southern hemisphere

***** one takes a look at the world's map, he can easily notice that *****