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How do you put this latitude longitude number into understandable figures?

I looked up the latitude longitude of a place online and got: -18.82831625269837, -145.1513671875 what does that mean? what degrees is that? which figure is which? help is most appreciated! thanks!

Public Comments

1. what location are you looking for? try this: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlon_find_location.html
2. Something is wrong with those numers. Lattitude and Longitude are expressed as XX.YY.ZZ where X=degrees, Y=minutes and Z=seconds of Lattitude or Longitude. 1 degree of Lattitude is 60 nautical miles - you can figure out the rest - think clock not metric
3. -18.83 Degrees north, -145.15 degrees west.
4. Since latitude only goes up to 90°, you know that the second number is a longitude. (Plus, it is the standard convention to give latitude first.) Standard convention is that positive latitude is N, positive longitude is E. Your location is 18.828°S, 145.151°W. That's in the Pacific Ocean, in the vicinity of French Polynesia. Checking all the other possible hemispheres with your numbers, the only one that falls on land is 18.828°S, 145.151°E, which is in Australia.