* Bracebridge, Muskoka, the home of Santa's Village, Ontario, Canada * Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and several of its adjacent cities The parallel intersects or slightly bypasses: Throughout the United States the parallel is marked in many places on highways by a sign proclaiming that the location is halfway between the North Pole and the equator. In the Western United States, the parallel passes through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, intersecting the Pacific coast in Oregon.

The center line of east-west Broadway Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis was deliberately laid out by city planners to be coterminous to the 45th parallel (i.e., if you are standing in the middle of the street, you are literally standing on the parallel line). Paul, Larpenteur (which is the word in French meaning 'surveyor') Avenue runs along the 45th parallel from the city's eastern to western edge. When the Grand Traverse Bay recedes below normal level, it is possible to walk out to the exact line.įarther west, the line roughly bisects the metropolitan area of Minneapolis-St. Many guidebooks and signs at the Mission Point Lighthouse describe it as being halfway between the equator and north pole. In Michigan, the Old Mission Peninsula in Grand Traverse Bay ends just shy of the 45th parallel. states of Oregon, Idaho, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine and through the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The 45th parallel makes up most of the boundary between Montana and Wyoming. The boundary here intersects Lake Champlain, which is shared by the two nations, with most of the lake lying in the United States. The actual boundary of Vermont lies approximately 1 km (5/8 mi) north of the parallel due to a cartographic error. states of New York and Vermont with the Canadian province of Quebec), where the parallel is sometimes called the 'Canada line'. Lawrence and Connecticut rivers (the northern borders of the U.S. In North America, the 45th parallel roughly marks the border between the United States and Canada between the St. Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 45° north passes through: The 45th parallel north is often called the halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole, but the true halfway point is actually 16.2 kilometers (10.1 miles) north of the 45th parallel because the Earth is oblate, that is, it bulges at the equator and is flattened at the poles. The 45th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.