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Tourists visiting the Airy meridian at the Royal Observatory in England (dotted line) stand on the historic location of the prime meridian, but improving technology reveals its actual location lies to ...

The Prime Meridian of the World (dotted line) and the modern reference meridian indicating zero longitude using satellite measurements (solid line). Once called the Prime Meridian of the World, the ...

If you use your smartphone’s GPS to find Earth’s prime meridian – the north-south line marking zero degrees longitude – at Greenwich Observatory, you’ll notice something a bit odd. You won’t be ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world descend on the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to pose for a photograph astride the Prime Meridian, the famous line which divides ...

If you've ever been to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, it might come as a shock to learn that the Prime Meridian line located there is in the wrong place. In fact, it's out by about 100 ...

The Prime Meridian is the imaginary line running between the North and South Poles that's used to indicate 0° longitude. It passes through Greenwich in southeast London, and is therefore sometimes ...

Africa is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres, Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western, making it the most ...