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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Nord-Suedausbreitung

English translation:

longitudinal range

Added to glossary by Hilary Davies Shelby
Mar 30, 2006 17:18
18 yrs ago
German term

Nord-Suedausbreitung

German to English Social Sciences Geography
Hello all,
This is a geography text:

"Aufgrund seiner Nord- Südausbreitung hat Japan verschiedene Klimazonen." I'm having a mental block - how would you express the Nord-Suedausbreitung in English? I can't even think of a workaround at the moment!

Thanks very much!
Proposed translations (English)
3 longitudinal range/spread from north to south
3 +2 distance from North to South
2 +1 north-south orientation
3 extends...from N to S

Discussion

Teresa Reinhardt Mar 30, 2006:
ung), it might have only one zone.)
Teresa Reinhardt Mar 30, 2006:
The german is a little strange, -erstreckung would be more appropriate since this is about length, not width. I think the words 'long/length' need to be included since they are making a point her: lots of zones (if Japan were turned 90 degrees (-ausbreit

Proposed translations

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longitudinal range/spread from north to south

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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks very much everyone - I went with "longitudinal range"."
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distance from North to South

one way
Peer comment(s):
agree Teresa Reinhardt : long distance/extension from... would be better
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agree Ian M-H (X)
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north-south orientation

I wonder if this would work...

See:

Richard Field on Management and Information Science... of plants and animals across similar climatic zones, whereas North/South ... The North and South Americas have a north-south orientation which meant ...
www.bus.ualberta.ca/rfield/ General%20Reading%20Books.htm - 42k -
Peer comment(s):
neutral Teresa Reinhardt : No, this here refers to the fact that the country is _long_ in a N-S direction
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If you look at the reference, they're making exactly the same point - that if you turned the Americas on their side there wouldn't be as much climatic variation
agree Erich Friese : ......I would use 'extension', but orientation is ok...><))):>...
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extends...from N to S

The above is only a placeholder (not allowed to use "siehe unten" anymore)
I'd work around it - something like 'since the principal extension [of the country] is N-S" (very technical [geometry] term; see www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC99/pdf/1697.pdf )
or, more colloquially, "Since Japan extends mostly in a N-S direction"
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