60th parallel north

Malachy Tallack wrote a book, Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home, about his travels along the general line of the parallel, starting and finishing at Shetland. Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 60° north passes through: : ==Notable cities and towns on 60°N==

• Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada • Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada • Bergen, Vestland, Norway • Oslo, Norway • Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland • Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland • Saint Petersburg, Russia • Lerwick, Scotland, UK • Uppsala, Sweden ==Canada==

, Northwest Territories, and the Nunavut mainland. In Canada, the 60th parallel forms the southern mainland boundary of the northern territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut with the western provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Accordingly, "north of 60" is an expression often used for the territories, although parts of Nunavut (the islands in Hudson Bay and James Bay) are located south of the 60th parallel, and parts of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador are located north, to the east of Hudson Bay. A 1990s TV show on CBC about life in the Northwest Territories was called North of 60. The 60th Parallel Territorial Park is on Mackenzie Highway between Alberta and Northwest Territories and it has a visitor centre there in the homeland of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and the North Slave Métis Alliance. Canada's only four corners are located at the intersection of the 60th parallel and the 102nd meridian west, between the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. ==Greenland==

Between 1776 and 1950, the 60th parallel formed the southern limit of the Royal Greenland Trade Department's exclusive monopoly on trade near the Dano-Norwegian and later Danish colonies of Greenland (1776–1782) and South Greenland (1782–1950). ==See also==