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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 Holiday Shores:
37.739216, -90.674571
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 Holiday Shores
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Holiday Shores.
Within Missouri, the name Holiday Shores is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Marshall County
This Holiday Shores is located in Marshall County and lies 332 miles [534.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Holiday Shores that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Holiday Shores.
Tuscaloosa County
This Holiday Shores is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 347 miles [558.4 km] to the south southeast of the Holiday Shores that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Holiday Shores.
Illinois
Madison County
This Holiday Shores is located in Madison County and lies 90 miles [144.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Holiday Shores that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Holiday Shores.
North Carolina
Montgomery County
This Holiday Shores is located in Montgomery County and lies 611 miles [983.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Holiday Shores that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Holiday Shores.
Tennessee
Roane County
This Holiday Shores is located in Roane County and lies 365 miles [587.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Holiday Shores that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Holiday Shores.
Texas
Brazoria County
Although located in Brazoria County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brazoria County community of Holiday Shores.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Holiday Shores ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Holiday Shores to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Holiday Shores and extending to:
Potosi, which is the Seat of Washington County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Holiday Shores to Potosi, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 99 miles [159.3 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 742 miles [1,194.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 43 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,499 miles [10,459.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,232 miles [11,638.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,111 miles [8,225.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Holiday Shores) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Holiday Shores 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 Holiday Shores. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7392, Longitude: -90.6746 In this case, the coordinates for Holiday Shores have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.345 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.948 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.069 degrees.