ARKY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: True North, Grid North, Compass
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Used in canada-canada is divided into a grid measuring 2 of latitude by 4 longitude. The degrees latitude and longitude is identified by upper case letters (first letter for the latitude and second letter for the longitude). Lower case letter are then used to designate the subdivisions that are. South of the 62nd parallel (units are 10 minutes latitude by 10 minutes longitude). A number is then added to the end to indicate in which order a site was registered within a specific designation. Borden designation is the specific area including the subdivision and number etc (geqe-5) but the borden block is just the general area (gq) Dkpj-1 is the borden designation for head-smashed-in buffalo jump and we will be using this for the final report. When locating this on a map, the first capital letter corresponds to the rows for latitude.
