February 04, 1993|Kirsten Lee Swartz, Times community correspondent. Long Beach officials recently decided to set up storefront police stations that will be staffed by volunteers and serve as drop-in centers for officers and residents.
The Arctic Circle is a region on Earth that is marked as one of the five major circles of latitude on maps of our planet.It is located between the Arctic to its north and the Northern Temperate Zone to its south. Its counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere is known as the Antarctic Circle.In addition to the Antarctic Circle, the other three major latitude lines are the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Equator.The Arctic Circle is the farthest southern region that experiences polar day and polar night.ts counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere is known as the Antarctic Circle. In addition to the Antarctic Circle, the other three major latitude lines are the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Equator.
Latitude measures distance north or south of the Equator (the band of 0 degrees latitude that runs east and west around the middle of the Earth). Each latitude line forms an imaginary circle around the Earth. Because these circles are parallel to the Equator, they are sometimes called parallels. The farther the circles are from the Equator, the smaller they are, until they become points at the North and South Poles. The latitude of the North Pole is 90 degrees north, and that of the South Pole is 90 degrees south.