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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 Barnet:
44.297005, -72.049261
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We found one communities that are also named Barnet.
Within Vermont, the name Barnet is unique.
Beyond Vermont, there is another community also named Barnet in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Barnet lies 2,383 miles [3,835.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Barnet that is located in Caledonia County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Barnet ...
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 Barnet to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Barnet and extending to:
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Barnet to Montpelier, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 452 miles [727.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 18 days and walking would take 26 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,470 miles [8,803.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,187 miles [9,957 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,062 miles [6,537.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Barnet) 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 Barnet 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 Barnet. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2970, Longitude: -72.0493 In this case, the coordinates for Barnet have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.281 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.242 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.028 degrees.