The intersection of the Equator and the Prime Meridian lands somewhere west of the coast of Africa, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. These are coordinates (0,0) in map coordinates system WGS84 ...

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Once called the Prime Meridian of the World, the invisible line running north to south that divides the world into Eastern and Western hemispheres passed through the Airy Transit Circle — a 19th ...

IT is to be regretted that the French delegates have declined to accept some of the resolutions of the Prime Meridian Conference, but it is to be hoped that their non-adherence is only temporary ...

It was on October 13, 1884 that the Greenwich meridian was officially adopted as the prime meridian, the imaginary north-south line where the longitude was 0 degrees. A.S.Ganesh gives you a ...

Simply define a galactic equator and a prime meridian, and determine your position relative to them. For galactic coordinates astronomers define the galactic equator (0° longitude) as the plane ...

Candidates for the prime meridian included Paris, the manger at Bethlehem and the Great Pyramid of Giza. Greenwich won. Robert P. Crease reviews “Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian ...

Once called the Prime Meridian of the World, the invisible line running north to south that divides the world into Eastern and Western hemispheres passed through the Airy Transit Circle — a 19th ...