61st parallel north

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61st parallel north

The 61st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 61 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia and North America.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 19 hours, 16 minutes during the summer solstice and 5 hours, 32 minutes during the winter solstice.[1]

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 61° north passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Defines the border between North Sea and Norwegian Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Norway Islands of Ytre Sula and Hiserøyna, and the mainland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Sweden
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Baltic Sea Gulf of Bothnia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Finland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia Passing through Lake Ladoga, Lake Onega and by the approximate hypocentre of the 1908 Tunguska event
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Sea of Okhotsk Gizhigin Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Sea of Okhotsk Penzhin Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia Kamchatka Peninsula
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Bering Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Alaska
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cook Inlet
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Alaska - Kenai Peninsula
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cook Inlet Turnagain Arm
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Alaska
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Yukon
Northwest Territories - passing through the Great Slave Lake
Nunavut
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hudson Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Quebec - Ungava Peninsula
Nunavut - Diana Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Diana Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Quebec - Ungava Peninsula
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hudson Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Davis Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Greenland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Passing just north of Out Stack, Muckle Flugga and Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland,  United Kingdom

See also

References

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