geomagnetic equator

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an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.

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And yet the trees are cultivated in every country within 15 degrees of the Equator, so a virtual cocoa belt encircles the globe.
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It is about three leagues wide and is forty-four and one half degrees from the Equator.
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The difference in the length of day and night decreases more and more the nearer you approach the Equator.
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It was of a cylindrical shape, having a deep zone at the equator, and a containing capacity of about 300 feet.
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This covering extends rather less far toward the planet's equator than does the snow sheet on our continents.
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Then let us imagine the particle moving toward the equator with the speed of an ordinary wind.
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