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 South Wales:
42.708949, -78.578080
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 South Wales
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 South Wales.
Within New York, the name South Wales is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named South Wales in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Virginia
Culpeper County
This South Wales is located in Culpeper County and lies 281 miles [452.2 km]<1> to the south of the South Wales that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Culpeper County community of South Wales.
Curious and Interesting Names Near South Wales ...
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 South Wales to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in South Wales and extending to:
Buffalo, which is the Seat of Erie County, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from South Wales to Buffalo, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 244 miles [392.7 km] to the east (E). 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 White House (Washington, DC) is 275 miles [442.6 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,798 miles [9,331 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,522 miles [10,496.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,398 miles [7,077.9 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- South Wales) 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.
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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 South Wales 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 South Wales. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.7089, Longitude: -78.5781 In this case, the coordinates for South Wales have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.552 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.783 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.888 degrees.