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 Carolina Pines:
35.748485, -78.658059
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 Carolina Pines
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 Wake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Carolina Pines.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Carolina Pines.
Beyond North Carolina.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Craven County
This Carolina Pines is located in Craven County and lies 111 miles [178.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Carolina Pines that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craven County community of Carolina Pines.
Davidson County
This Carolina Pines is located in Davidson County and lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the west of the Carolina Pines that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davidson County community of Carolina Pines.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Carolina Pines ...
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 Carolina Pines to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Carolina Pines and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the North Northeast.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the north northeast (NNE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 234 miles [376.6 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Carolina Pines to White House, 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 10 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,102 miles [9,820.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,797 miles [10,938.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,678 miles [7,528.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Carolina Pines) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Carolina Pines 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 Carolina Pines. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7485, Longitude: -78.6581 In this case, the coordinates for Carolina Pines have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.963 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.188 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.491 degrees.