When measuring distances on a marine chart do you use units of latitude or units of longitude to get the correct measurement?
Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine.
Congratulations to Shelby Fisk, presently in Key West, FL, who correctly identified Point Nemo and “the point in the oceans that is farthest from any land. It sits deep in the southern Pacific Ocean at 48 degree, 52 minutes south and 123 degrees and 23 minutes west.
