Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Herring Cove:
55.325000, -131.522222
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Herring Cove
Waymarking ...
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We found one communities that are also named Herring Cove.
Within Alaska, the name Herring Cove is unique.
Beyond Alaska, there is another community also named Herring Cove in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Nova Scotia
This Herring Cove lies 2,981 miles [4,797.5 km]<1> to the east northeast.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Herring Cove ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Herring Cove to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Herring Cove and extending to:
Juneau, which is the State Capital of Alaska, lies 232 miles [373.4 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Herring Cove to Juneau, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,715 miles [4,369.4 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 6 days, a buggy would take 106 days and walking would take 155 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,363 miles [10,240.3 km] and it lies to the north (N).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,105 miles [11,434.4 km] and it lies to the north (N).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,390 miles [8,674.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Herring Cove) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<3>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Herring Cove to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Herring Cove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 55.3250, Longitude: -131.5222 In this case, the coordinates for Herring Cove have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 348.763 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 351.74 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 333.423 degrees.