Where is lattitude North 37 degrees by longitude West 37 degrees?

Answer 1

That puts you on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - a spreading continental plate margin or oceanic rift - west of the Azores.

The earth is divided into 360 lines of latitude (east-west) and 360 lines of longitude (north-south).

0 latitude is the equator, 90 north is the earth's north rotational axis (north pole), and 90 south is the earth's south rotational axis (south pole).

0 longitude runs through Greenwich, England, 90 degrees west runs through New Orleans, 180 degrees east (or west, same thing) runs almost through New Zealand, and 90 degrees east runs through Bangladesh.

Therefore 37°00'00"N 37°00'00"W is a very precise position on the earth's surface determined in reference to the Greenwich prime meridian and the earth's rotational axes. There are no other locations anywhere on earth with the same coordinates.

Lines of longitude get closer to each other as you move away from the equator, due to the curvature of the earth. Lines of latitude are always parallel with the equator and thereofre are equidistant. The earth is not flat, so this system works better than a square grid such as UTM over large distances.

Each line of longitude and latitude can be further divided, usually as minutes (') and seconds (") - 60 sec in a min and 60 min in a degree, or as decimals of a degree.

This is very basic cartography. Do you need an Atlas?

Answer 2

fire up a browser and go to maps.google.com
in the search maps field, enter
+37,-37
This represents 37 deg N and 37 deg W.

It is in the middle of the north atlantic.

Answer 3

Somewhere about 500 miles west of the Azores and a bit south. i.e. In the middle of the Northern Atlantic ocean.

Answer 4

That sounds close to my house in Vacaville, CA.