What is at 43 degrees latitude and 71 degrees longitude?

Answer 1

Latitude on the earth has to be either north or south. Longitude on the earth has to be either east or west. Since the question specifies neither the direction of the latitude nor the direction of the longitude, it immediately tells us two important things:

-- The questioner is clueless on the subject.

-- The question narrows the choice down only to four widely-spaced points.

Any of the following is a correct answer:

1). 43 north, 71 west

This point is about 2.1 miles northwest of the intersection of Brentwood Road and Epping Road in Exeter, New Hampshire

2). 43 north, 71 east

This point is in Kazakhstan, about 20 miles northwest of Dzhambul, and 85 miles northeast of Chimkent.

3). 43 south, 71 west

This point is in southern Argentina, about 18 miles southeast of the town of Esquel, and 50 miles due east of the border with Chile.

4). 43 south, 71 east

This point is in the far south Indian ocean, about 2,350 miles southeast of Durban, South Africa, and 2,550 miles southwest of Perth, Australia.