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35-631: Coordinates : 42°13′30″N 74°24′25″W / 42.22500°N 74.40694°W / 42.22500; -74.40694 Mountain in New York, United States Beech Ridge [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Beech Ridge Location of Beech Ridge within New York Show map of New York [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Beech Ridge Beech Ridge (the United States) Show map of
70-505: A tan ϕ {\displaystyle \textstyle {\tan \beta ={\frac {b}{a}}\tan \phi }\,\!} ; for the GRS 80 and WGS 84 spheroids, b a = 0.99664719 {\textstyle {\tfrac {b}{a}}=0.99664719} . ( β {\displaystyle \textstyle {\beta }\,\!} is known as the reduced (or parametric) latitude ). Aside from rounding, this
105-460: A datum transformation such as a Helmert transformation , although in certain situations a simple translation may be sufficient. Datums may be global, meaning that they represent the whole Earth, or they may be local, meaning that they represent an ellipsoid best-fit to only a portion of the Earth. Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326 ),
140-608: A point on Earth's surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often called great circles ), which converge at the North and South Poles. The meridian of the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich , in southeast London, England, is the international prime meridian , although some organizations—such as
175-473: A region of the surface of the Earth. Some newer datums are bound to the center of mass of the Earth. This combination of mathematical model and physical binding mean that anyone using the same datum will obtain the same location measurement for the same physical location. However, two different datums will usually yield different location measurements for the same physical location, which may appear to differ by as much as several hundred meters; this not because
210-411: Is 6,367,449 m . Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid , not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent; a better approximation of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is where Earth's equatorial radius a {\displaystyle a} equals 6,378,137 m and tan β = b
245-480: Is 110.6 km. The circles of longitude, meridians, meet at the geographical poles, with the west–east width of a second naturally decreasing as latitude increases. On the Equator at sea level, one longitudinal second measures 30.92 m, a longitudinal minute is 1855 m and a longitudinal degree is 111.3 km. At 30° a longitudinal second is 26.76 m, at Greenwich (51°28′38″N) 19.22 m, and at 60° it
280-522: Is 15.42 m. On the WGS 84 spheroid, the length in meters of a degree of latitude at latitude ϕ (that is, the number of meters you would have to travel along a north–south line to move 1 degree in latitude, when at latitude ϕ ), is about The returned measure of meters per degree latitude varies continuously with latitude. Similarly, the length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as (Those coefficients can be improved, but as they stand
315-416: Is 4.3 miles (6.9 km) for an elevation gain of 2,936 feet (895 m). The mountain can also be approached from the southeast via an even steeper trail which begins at Lake Colden , which rises 2,350 feet (720 m) in just 2.1 miles (3.4 km). From the summit, an unmarked trail leads 1.1 miles (1.8 km) southeast to nearby Boundary Peak and Iroquois Peak . A trail to Wright Peak forks from
350-661: Is a mountain in the MacIntyre Range of the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York . It is the second highest mountain in New York, with an elevation of 5,114 feet (1,559 m), and one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks . It is located in the town of North Elba in Essex County and in the High Peaks Wilderness Area of Adirondack Park . The first recorded ascent of the mountain
385-486: Is accessible from two trails. Starting at the Adirondak Loj outside Lake Placid , the mountain can be approached from the north by following the blue-blazed Van Hoevenberg Trail 1.0 mile (1.6 km) to its junction with the yellow-blazed MacIntyre Range Trail. That trail continues the remaining 3.3 miles (5.3 km) to the summit, during which the route gets progressively steeper and rockier. The total distance
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#1732802390291420-411: Is different from Wikidata Coordinates on Wikidata Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system ( GCS ) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude . It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms
455-456: Is known as a graticule . The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km (390 mi) south of Tema , Ghana , a location often facetiously called Null Island . In order to use the theoretical definitions of latitude, longitude, and height to precisely measure actual locations on the physical earth, a geodetic datum must be used. A horizonal datum
490-700: Is the exact distance along a parallel of latitude; getting the distance along the shortest route will be more work, but those two distances are always within 0.6 m of each other if the two points are one degree of longitude apart. Like any series of multiple-digit numbers, latitude-longitude pairs can be challenging to communicate and remember. Therefore, alternative schemes have been developed for encoding GCS coordinates into alphanumeric strings or words: These are not distinct coordinate systems, only alternative methods for expressing latitude and longitude measurements. Algonquin Peak Algonquin Peak
525-465: Is used to precisely measure latitude and longitude, while a vertical datum is used to measure elevation or altitude. Both types of datum bind a mathematical model of the shape of the earth (usually a reference ellipsoid for a horizontal datum, and a more precise geoid for a vertical datum) to the earth. Traditionally, this binding was created by a network of control points , surveyed locations at which monuments are installed, and were only accurate for
560-481: The International Date Line , which diverges from it in several places for political and convenience reasons, including between far eastern Russia and the far western Aleutian Islands . The combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The visual grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude
595-526: The 1st or 2nd century, Marinus of Tyre compiled an extensive gazetteer and mathematically plotted world map using coordinates measured east from a prime meridian at the westernmost known land, designated the Fortunate Isles , off the coast of western Africa around the Canary or Cape Verde Islands , and measured north or south of the island of Rhodes off Asia Minor . Ptolemy credited him with
630-506: The Earth's surface move relative to each other due to continental plate motion, subsidence, and diurnal Earth tidal movement caused by the Moon and the Sun. This daily movement can be as much as a meter. Continental movement can be up to 10 cm a year, or 10 m in a century. A weather system high-pressure area can cause a sinking of 5 mm . Scandinavia is rising by 1 cm a year as a result of
665-729: The European ED50 , and the British OSGB36 . Given a location, the datum provides the latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } and longitude λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . In the United Kingdom there are three common latitude, longitude, and height systems in use. WGS 84 differs at Greenwich from the one used on published maps OSGB36 by approximately 112 m. The military system ED50 , used by NATO , differs from about 120 m to 180 m. Points on
700-536: The French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière —continue to use other meridians for internal purposes. The prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres , although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. This is not to be conflated with
735-599: The United States Highest ;point Elevation 1,926 ft (587 m) Coordinates 42°13′30″N 74°24′25″W / 42.22500°N 74.40694°W / 42.22500; -74.40694 Geography Location SW of Lexington , New York , U.S. Topo map USGS West Kill Beech Ridge is a ridge located in Greene County , New York southwest of Lexington, New York . Located to
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#1732802390291770-532: The basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system , the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in the EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid ), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for
805-577: The center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels , as they are parallel to the Equator and to each other. The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator , the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres . The longitude λ of
840-649: The default datum used for the Global Positioning System , and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation . The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by a national cartographical organization include the North American Datum ,
875-490: The distance they give is correct within a centimeter.) The formulae both return units of meters per degree. An alternative method to estimate the length of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is to assume a spherical Earth (to get the width per minute and second, divide by 60 and 3600, respectively): where Earth's average meridional radius M r {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!}
910-474: The full adoption of longitude and latitude, rather than measuring latitude in terms of the length of the midsummer day. Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography used the same prime meridian but measured latitude from the Equator instead. After their work was translated into Arabic in the 9th century, Al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth corrected Marinus' and Ptolemy's errors regarding
945-781: The length of the Mediterranean Sea , causing medieval Arabic cartography to use a prime meridian around 10° east of Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes ' recovery of Ptolemy's text a little before 1300; the text was translated into Latin at Florence by Jacopo d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference , attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt
980-461: The location has moved, but because the reference system used to measure it has shifted. Because any spatial reference system or map projection is ultimately calculated from latitude and longitude, it is crucial that they clearly state the datum on which they are based. For example, a UTM coordinate based on WGS84 will be different than a UTM coordinate based on NAD27 for the same location. Converting coordinates from one datum to another requires
1015-595: The longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich , England as the zero-reference line. The Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through (or close to)
1050-463: The melting of the ice sheets of the last ice age , but neighboring Scotland is rising by only 0.2 cm . These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. On the GRS 80 or WGS 84 spheroid at sea level at the Equator, one latitudinal second measures 30.715 m , one latitudinal minute is 1843 m and one latitudinal degree
1085-11747: The northwest is Vly Mountain and to the north of Vinegar Hill. Beech Ridge drains north into Beech Ridge Brook , east into West Kill and south into Condon Hollow . References [ edit ] ^ "Beech Ridge" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey , United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2018-01-12 . v t e Mountains of New York Adirondack Mountains Dix Range Dix Mountain Grace Peak Hough Peak Macomb Mountain South Dix Great Range Armstrong Mountain Basin Mountain Gothics Lower Wolfjaw Mountain Saddleback Mountain Sawteeth Upper Wolfjaw Mountain MacIntyre Mountains Algonquin Peak Iroquois Peak Mount Marshall Wright Peak Marcy Group Allen Mountain Cliff Mountain Gray Peak Mount Colden Mount Haystack Mount Marcy Mount Redfield Mount Skylight Street Range MacNaughton Mountain Nye Mountain Street Mountain Others Ampersand Mountain Azure Mountain Baker Mountain Bald Mountain (Herkimer County) Bald Mountain (Lewis County) Belfry Mountain Bell Mountain Big Slide Mountain Bitch Mountain Black Mountain Blake Peak Blue Mountain Boreas Mountain Cascade Mountain Catamount Mountain Cathead Mountain Coney Mountain Couchsachraga Peak Crane Mountain Debar Mountain Dewey Mountain Dial Mountain Donaldson Mountain Dun Brook Mountain Esther Mountain Fort Noble Mountain Giant Mountain Goodnow Mountain Gore Mountain Hadley Mountain Hamilton Mountain Hurricane Mountain Jay Mountain Kempshall Mountain Loon Lake Mountains Lyon Mountain Makomis Mountain McCauley Mountain McKenzie Mountain Meenahga Mountain Moose River Mountain Mount Adams Mount Arab Mount Colvin Mount Electra Mount Emmons Mount Jo Mount McGregor Mount Morris Mount Pisgah Mount Van Hoevenberg Nippletop Noonmark Mountain Ohmer Mountain Owls Head Mountain Palmer Hill Panther Peak Phelps Mountain Pitchoff Mountain Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Porter Mountain Prospect Mountain Rocky Peak Ridge Saint Regis Mountain Salmon Lake Mountain Santanoni Peak Seward Mountain Seymour Mountain Silver Lake Mountain Snowy Mountain Spruce Mountain Stillwater Mountain Swede Mountain T Lake Mountain Table Top Mountain Titus Mountain Tomany Mountain Vanderwhacker Mountain Wallface Mountain West Mountain Whiteface Mountain Whites Hill Woodhull Mountain Yard Mountain Catskill Mountains Blackhead Mountains Black Dome Blackhead Thomas Cole Mountain Burroughs Range Wittenberg Mountain Cornell Mountain Slide Mountain Devil's Path Hunter Mountain Indian Head Mountain Plateau Mountain Southwest Hunter Mountain Sugarloaf Mountain (Greene County) Twin Mountain West Kill Mountain Others Ashland Pinnacle Ashokan High Point Balsam Cap Balsam Lake Mountain Balsam Mountain Bearpen Mountain Big Indian Mountain Bramley Mountain Bump Mountain Chapin Hill Doubletop Mountain Eagle Mountain Evergreen Mountain Fir Mountain Friday Mountain Gallis Hill Graham Mountain Halcott Mountain Huntersfield Mountain Irish Mountain Kaaterskill High Peak The Knob Leonard Hill Lone Mountain Mount Jefferson Mount Sherrill Mount Tremper North Dome North Mountain Old Clump Mountain Overlook Mountain Panther Mountain Peekamoose Mountain Mount Pisgah Plattekill Mountain Red Hill Richmond Mountain Richtmyer Peak Rocky Mountain Rusk Mountain Table Mountain Tower Mountain Twadell Mountain Utsayantha Mountain Van Loan Hill Vly Mountain Windham High Peak Hudson Highlands Anthony's Nose Beacon Mountain Bear Mountain Breakneck Ridge Buckberg Bull Hill Crow's Nest Dunderberg Mountain Hook Mountain Jackie Jones Mountain Popolopen South Mountain Mount Nimham Storm King Mountain Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County) Sugarloaf Hill Tallman Mountain Taconic Mountains Alander Mountain Berlin Mountain Brace Mountain Misery Mountain Mount Raimer Rounds Mountain Washburn Mountain White Rock Others Alma Hill Bellvale Mountain Bristol Mountain (Worden Hill) Calder Hill Castor Hill Clove Mountain Cornell Hill Cornish Hill Cumorah Dairy Hill Fitch Hill Frost Hill Gifford Hill Gomer Hill Hartzfelt Mountain Hooker Mountain Ingraham Hill Jersey Hill Joppenbergh Mountain Kilkenny Hill Klock Hill Marlboro Mountains McCarty Hill Metcalf Hill Morgan Hill Morrow Mountain Mount Colfax Mount Defiance Mount Irvine Mount Peter Mount Tuscarora Mount Wellington Mount Zion Page Pond Hill Panther Mountain Penn Mountain Petersburg Mountain Pine Mountain Ramapo Mountains Red House Hill Rum Hill Schunemunk Mountain Science Hill Shawangunk Ridge Sproul Hill Todt Hill Virgil Mountain Windham Mountain Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beech_Ridge&oldid=1254489621 " Categories : Mountains of Greene County, New York Mountains of New York (state) Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles with short description Short description
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1120-512: The same location. The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene , who composed his now-lost Geography at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses , rather than dead reckoning . In
1155-467: The summit is an alpine tundra zone, the largest found in the Adirondacks. This area is home to many arctic plants, including American dwarf birch , bearberry willow , black crowberry , Bog bilberry , Cutler's alpine goldenrod , Diapensia , Lapland rose-bay , and low rattlesnake root , and contains a prominent bog . The large numbers of hikers on the summit have in the past caused damage to
1190-454: The yellow trail 0.9 miles (1.4 km) below the summit. The mountain's summit is above tree line. Views of the surrounding peaks are available in all directions, with particularly good views available of nearby Mount Colden and Lake Colden. Algonquin is increasingly popular with hikers, with a 2021 study by Otak observing significant crowds on the summit of the mountain on popular summer days. An area of 23.5 acres (9.5 ha) surrounding
1225-669: Was made on August 8, 1837, by a party led by New York state geologist Ebenezer Emmons . It was originally named Mount McIntyre, after Archibald McIntyre , but this name was eventually applied to the entire range. Surveyor Verplanck Colvin added the name "Algonquin" in 1880. This name came from the peak reputedly being on the Algonquian side of a nearby informal boundary between the Algonquian and their Iroquois neighbors, although no such boundary existed in reality. Algonquin Peak
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