Using the Internet Learning About Longitude    Name: _________________________
Oklahoma Workbook page 21 Internet1  Internet2 and Harrison3  Find Your Address

Directions: Traveling by ship from Europe to the New World in the 1500s and 1600s was difficult and dangerous. Navigators could determine their ship’s latitude, but they had no way to determine their ship’s latitude. This problem was so important that the English monarch and the English Parliament offered a huge prize to whoever could solve it. Go to Internet site http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.355/viewPage/1 to learn who finally solved the problem of determining longitude. Read through the information at the site, and then answer the following questions:

1. Why was time important to determining longitude? _____________________________________________

2. Who founded the Royal Observatory? ____________________________

When? _____________________________________________________

Why? ______________________________________________________

3. Who solved the longitude problem? ______________________________

4. When was the H1 created? _____________________________________

H2? _______________________________________________________

H3? _______________________________________________________

H4? _______________________________________________________

5. What organization was founded to solve the problem of determining longitude? ____________________________

6. What was the prize for solving the longitude problem? _______________

7. When did Harrison finally get the second half of the prize? ____________

8. How old was Harrison when he died? _____________________________

Directions: Go to Internet site www.geocode.com/eagle.html-ssi. Enter the address of your home and your school to find its exact latitude and longitude.

9. Home Address: __________________________________________Lat: _______________ Long: ____________

10. School Address: __(9610 So Garnett St. Tulsa Ok 74133)________ Lat: _______________ Long: ____________