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 Pine Valley Estates:
34.187671, -77.907209
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 Pine Valley Estates
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 New Hanover County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
Open the Waymark.com report for Pine Valley Estates
Communities Also Named Pine Valley Estates ...
We found three communities that are also named Pine Valley Estates.
Within North Carolina, the name Pine Valley Estates is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Henry County
This Pine Valley Estates is located in Henry County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the west of the Pine Valley Estates that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Pine Valley Estates.
Paulding County
This Pine Valley Estates is located in Paulding County and lies 392 miles [630.9 km] to the west of the Pine Valley Estates that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Pine Valley Estates.
South Carolina
Horry County
This Pine Valley Estates is located in Horry County and lies 69 miles [111 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pine Valley Estates that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Horry County community of Pine Valley Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pine Valley Estates ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Pine Valley Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pine Valley Estates and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 117 miles [188.3 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Pine Valley Estates to Raleigh, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 328 miles [527.9 km] to the north (N). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,137 miles [9,876.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,822 miles [10,978.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,709 miles [7,578.4 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pine Valley Estates) 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 Pine Valley Estates 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 Pine Valley Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1877, Longitude: -77.9072 In this case, the coordinates for Pine Valley Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.571 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.509 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.716 degrees.