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 Ferry Village:
42.970890, -78.948372
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 Ferry Village
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 Erie County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Ferry Village.
Within New York, the name Ferry Village is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named Ferry Village in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maine
Cumberland County
This Ferry Village is located in Cumberland County and lies 439 miles [706.5 km]<1> to the east of the Ferry Village that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Ferry Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ferry Village ...
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 Ferry Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ferry Village and extending to:
Buffalo, which is the Seat of Erie County, lies just to the South Southeast.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 263 miles [423.3 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Ferry Village to Albany, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 15 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 298 miles [479.6 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,801 miles [9,335.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,527 miles [10,504.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,403 miles [7,085.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ferry Village) 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 Ferry Village 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 Ferry Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9709, Longitude: -78.9484 In this case, the coordinates for Ferry Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.764 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.063 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.958 degrees.