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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 Arrowhead Estates:
44.036099, -103.276850
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.
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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 Pennington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Arrowhead Estates.
Within South Dakota, the name Arrowhead Estates is unique.
Beyond South Dakota, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Arrowhead Estates is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,599 miles [2,573.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Arrowhead Estates that is located in Pennington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Arrowhead Estates.
Georgia
Muscogee County
This Arrowhead Estates is located in Muscogee County and lies 1,269 miles [2,042.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Arrowhead Estates that is located in Pennington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Arrowhead Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Arrowhead 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.
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 Arrowhead Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Arrowhead Estates and extending to:
Pierre, which is the State Capital of South Dakota, lies 146 miles [235 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Arrowhead Estates to Pierre, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,396 miles [2,246.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 55 days and walking would take 80 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,577 miles [10,584.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,342 miles [11,815.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,288 miles [8,510.2 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- Arrowhead Estates) 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 Arrowhead 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 Arrowhead Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0361, Longitude: -103.2768 In this case, the coordinates for Arrowhead Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 325.56 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 324.379 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 316.426 degrees.