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What is the highest degree of longitude that can be measured?

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the highest degree of longitude that can be measured is 90 degrees to the north

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Since the equator is 0 , the scope of the north shaft, 1/4 of the route far and wide going in a northerly course, would be 90 N. This is the highest latitude possible.

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