can anybody support the contention that the tropic of capricorn passes through england anything i'm missing here territories commonwealths j k rowling's secret volcano hideout anything okay i'm getting rid of it england was added by an anonymous user a few days ago they also tried adding mauritusiis or something like that i'm guessing they were referring to mauritius but they're just north of the tropic so whoever it is is either goofing around or sorely in need of an atlas okay preceding unsigned comment added by lattitude the value specified in the document doesn't make sence lattitude is specified in degrees minutes and seconds or in degrees with a decimal after it the actual latitude page specifies it as without a superfulous comma and extra number on the end guessing is it meant to be eg seconds however i can't seem to find any corroboration it is often referred to as ' degrees south' which is ' there seems to be some variations on what it actually is including some easily accessable regerences to the fact that the tropics are expanding see for a quick summary xrobau gmail com quick addendum the tropic of cancer page specifies that it's also the talk page mentions that google averages it to minutes exactly need info desperately