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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Colonial Estates:
33.405168, -79.275606
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 Colonial 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 Georgetown County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named Colonial Estates.
Within South Carolina, the name Colonial Estates is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Carroll County
This Colonial Estates is located in Carroll County and lies 336 miles [540.7 km]<1> to the west of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Colonial Estates.
Douglas County
This Colonial Estates is located in Douglas County and lies 312 miles [502.1 km] to the west of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Colonial Estates.
North Carolina
Rockingham County
This Colonial Estates is located in Rockingham County and lies 200 miles [321.9 km]<1> to the north of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Colonial Estates.
North Dakota
Burleigh County
This Colonial Estates is located in Burleigh County and lies 1,455 miles [2,341.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burleigh County community of Colonial Estates.
Ohio
Fairfield County
This Colonial Estates is located in Fairfield County and lies 475 miles [764.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfield County community of Colonial Estates.
Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
This Colonial Estates is located in Dauphin County and lies 495 miles [796.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Colonial Estates.
Tennessee
Bradley County
This Colonial Estates is located in Bradley County and lies 340 miles [547.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Colonial Estates.
Putnam County
This Colonial Estates is located in Putnam County and lies 402 miles [647 km] to the west northwest of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Colonial Estates.
Rutherford County
This Colonial Estates is located in Rutherford County and lies 435 miles [700.1 km] to the west northwest of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Colonial Estates.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Colonial Estates is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,857 miles [2,988.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Colonial Estates.
Vermont
Rutland County
This Colonial Estates is located in Rutland County and lies 784 miles [1,261.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Colonial Estates that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutland County community of Colonial Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Colonial 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.
Caring Cross Ferry (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Caring Cross Ferry is located in Georgetown County
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 Colonial Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Colonial Estates and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 109 miles [175.4 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Colonial Estates to Columbia, with an average speed<3>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 399 miles [642.1 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,232 miles [10,029.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,917 miles [11,131.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,804 miles [7,731.3 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Colonial Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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<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 Colonial 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 Colonial Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.4052, Longitude: -79.2756 In this case, the coordinates for Colonial Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.331 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.267 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.454 degrees.