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 Lands End:
34.035702, -81.279822
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 Lands End
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 Lexington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Lands End.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Lands End.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Beaufort County
This Lands End is located in Beaufort County and lies 125 miles [201.2 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Lands End that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaufort County community of Lands End.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Camden County
This Lands End is located in Camden County and lies 228 miles [366.9 km]<1> to the south of the Lands End that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of Lands End.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Lands End is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 431 miles [693.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Lands End that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Lands End.
Massachusetts
Essex County
This Lands End is located in Essex County and lies 827 miles [1,330.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Lands End that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Essex County community of Lands End.
New Brunswick
This Lands End lies 1,116 miles [1,796 km]<1> to the northeast of the Lands End that is located in Lexington County.
North Carolina
Carteret County
This Lands End is located in Carteret County and lies 243 miles [391.1 km]<1> to the east of the Lands End that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carteret County community of Lands End.
Virginia
Gloucester County
This Lands End is located in Gloucester County and lies 354 miles [569.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Lands End that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gloucester County community of Lands End.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lands End ...
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 Lands End to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lands End and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Lands End to Columbia, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 410 miles [659.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 24 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,292 miles [10,126 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,987 miles [11,244.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,868 miles [7,834.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Lands End) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Lands End 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 Lands End. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0357, Longitude: -81.2798 In this case, the coordinates for Lands End have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.463 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.658 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.015 degrees.