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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 Pinewood Acres:
35.740985, -78.840841
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 Pinewood Acres
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 four communities that are also named Pinewood Acres.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Pinewood Acres.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Alamance County
This Pinewood Acres is located in Alamance County and lies 42 miles [67.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pinewood Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alamance County community of Pinewood Acres.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Pinewood Acres is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 788 miles [1,268.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pinewood Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Pinewood Acres.
Maryland
Calvert County
This Pinewood Acres is located in Calvert County and lies 236 miles [379.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Pinewood Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of Pinewood Acres.
South Carolina
Horry County
This Pinewood Acres is located in Horry County and lies 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the south of the Pinewood Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Horry County community of Pinewood Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pinewood Acres ...
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 Pinewood Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pinewood Acres and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Pinewood Acres to Raleigh, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 11 miles [17.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). The buggy would take nearly four hours and walking would take five to six hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 239 miles [384.6 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,111 miles [9,834.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,806 miles [10,953.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,687 miles [7,543 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pinewood Acres) 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.
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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.
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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 Pinewood Acres 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 Pinewood Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7410, Longitude: -78.8408 In this case, the coordinates for Pinewood Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.067 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.306 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.565 degrees.