Traduction de «zero degree reference junction » (Anglais → Français) :

COMMENCING at a point on the northwesterly bank of Dubawnt Lake where said bank is intersected by longitude one hundred and two degrees; THENCE, southwesterly along said bank to the left bank of the unnamed stream entering said lake at approximate latitude sixty-three degrees and eight minutes; THENCE, upstream along the left bank of said stream and its widenings to the left bank of the unnamed stream at approximate longitude one hundred and two degrees and forty-six minutes and being immediately east of an esker; THENCE, upstream along the left bank of the last aforesaid stream and its widenings to an unnamed lake at approximate lati ...[+++]tude sixty-three degrees and fourteen minutes; THENCE, due north to the left bank of a widening of Clarke River; THENCE, downstream along the left bank of Clarke River and its widenings to the left bank of the westerly unnamed stream at approximate longitude one hundred and three degrees and thirty-five minutes; THENCE, upstream along the last aforesaid left bank to the unnamed lake at approximate latitude sixty-three degrees and eighteen minutes; THENCE, in a straight line to the most southerly extremity of the westerly lake of a group of three unnamed lakes at approximate latitude sixty-three degrees and nineteen minutes and approximate longitude one hundred and four degrees and two minutes; THENCE, northerly along the westerly bank of the last aforesaid westerly lake to the left bank of an unnamed stream; THENCE, downstream along the last aforesaid bank to the southerly bank of Coldblow Lake; THENCE, westerly along said southerly bank of the left bank of the stream draining Coldblow Lake; THENCE, downstream along the last aforesaid left bank to the right bank of Thelon River; THENCE, due west to the left bank of Thelon River; THENCE, downstream along the left bank of Thelon River to latitude sixty-three degrees and twenty-two minutes; THENCE, in a straight line to the most southerly extremity of an unnamed lake at appro ...

I have never seen a diagram that, instead of using a 0 and a period, when it estimates something, like 0.50, actually left the zero off, so it appears that the periods are so small that they actually referred to five degrees, when it was half a degree to begin with.

I would lastly like to refer to the amendments on dangerous substances which establish that we must achieve a zero, or close to zero, degree of pollution.