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3 unusual facts about 39th parallel north


Blackspotted catshark

The blackspotted catshark, Halaelurus buergeri, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found from Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan between latitudes 39° N and 20° N, at depths of between 80 and 100 m.

Colony of Virginia

In 1609, with the abandonment of the Plymouth Company settlement, the London Company's Virginia charter was adjusted to include the territory north of the 34th parallel and south of the 39th parallel, with its original coastal grant extended "from sea to sea".

John Williams Gunnison

On May 3, 1853 he received orders to take charge of an expedition to survey a route for a Pacific railroad between the 38th and 39th parallels.


Cape Henlopen

The 38th and 39th parallels region came under the final jurisdiction of the Dutch West India Company on behalf of the States General with the delivery of the first settlers to Governors Island in New Netherland in 1624.

State cessions

#Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Its original land grant from the British Monarch to William Penn was for the land between the 42nd parallel and the 38th parallel in latitude, and extending westward five degrees in longitude.


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