Everest's parallel
27°59′N
Everest stands on this line. So do Gran Canaria, the Sahara, and Baja California.
Follow this line from the world's highest summit to islands and deserts. The elevation data averages the ground in each map cell, so the profile draws Everest lower than its surveyed height, which Highest shows.
- summit 27°59′17″N, 86°55′30″E
- 8,849 m is the 2020 Nepal–China survey figure; GeoNames, the app's peak source, lists 8,848 m
- GeoNames puts the summit at 27°59′16″N in Nepal; the profile's Natural Earth borders put its cell in China
Other interesting latitudes
- Nearly halfway to the North Pole · 45°00′N
- Int’l Latitude Service, 1899 · 39°08′N
- Band of large cities · 33°36′N
- Challenger Deep · 11°22′N
- Chimborazo · 1°28′S
- Nearly halfway south, in the Roaring Forties · 45°00′S
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