Every year thousands visit Royal Observatory to see the famed Meridian Line. The line, built 131 years ago, marks out the division between the eastern and western sides of the hemisphere. It also ...

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Staff at Greenwich's Royal Observatory are increasingly asked why GPS did not align with the prime meridian. Now scientists have come up with an answer The Greenwich Meridian was chosen to be the ...

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Globe rolls along Longitude 0° 0' 0". The Meridian Line in Greenwich represents the Prime Meridian of the world, with a Longitude of Zero. Every place on Earth is measured in terms of its angle east ...

If you have ever taken a selfie at the Royal Observatory in London while standing astride the Prime Merdian line you may be disappointed to know that we actually got the location wrong. For years, ...

The Meridian line is an imaginary line which runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It runs through the main telescope at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London. The point is known ...