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Can someone show me on a map where the 90th parallel (90 degrees longitude West) crosses the Tropic of Cancer?

On Bing today, to celebrate National Towel Day, a giant Sperm Whale is pictured because it’s surprisingly difficult to find a really great image of a bowl of petunias

Whatever.

With today’s burgeoning technology and big tech, it is likewise very difficult now to find a specific spot / coordinates on the globe. Before globalization, when we actually HAD globes, it was easy to find the North and South pole, the Arctic Circle, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

In more recent years, I could merely type in coordinates and my computer internet (not sure what program) would show me the spot on the globe, on a map.

Right now, Google Maps doesn’t show anything I type in. The Tropic of Cancer might be a bar and grill in the Bahamas. When I type in 90 degrees longitude West and Tropic of Cancer, the map shows a nice shot of my immediate neighborhood location but says my search matches no results. No, my neighborhood is not in the tropics.

I presume this location is in the Gulf of Mexico kind of near the Yucatan Peninsula but I want to know exactly where this place is.

Can anyone show me these coordinates on a map or globe, or how far it is from the Yucatan Peninsula?

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