Prime Meridian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) at which longitude is defined to be 0°. The Prime Meridian and its opposite the 180th meridian (at 180° longitude), which the International Dat...
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Prime Meridian: Located at zero degrees longitude (East or West), it divides the Planet Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and is the line from which all other lines of longitude are measured.
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The Prime Meridian is located at 0° Longitude. The location of the Prime Meridian is the standard for World Time Zones. The actual line begins at the North Pole, runs through Greenwich, England (Greenwich Mean Time) and heads through Western Africa, down to the South Pole.
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Yes, it is The Royal Observatory in Greenwich that is the home of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the Prime Meridian of the world. Back in 1884, it was the position of the large “Transit Circle” telescope in the Observatory’s Meridian Building that gave the Prime Meridian that location.
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(Note: if you hold a GPS device while standing over the Prime Meridian, the Longitude reading on it would not be exactly 0°. That's because due to several complicated factors like continental drift etc., the system used by GPS's reference a different meridian line as Longitude 0°, called called the...
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Portuguese map-maker Pedro Reinel first drew latitude scale on the prime meridian (starting point for measuring longitude) in 1506. By the 1520s Portuguese experts realized that the scientific precision equal to that they had achieved in fixing latitude could only be approximated in establishing longitude.
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Africa | Antarctica | Arctic | Asia | Australia/Oceania | Caribbean | Central America | Europe | Islands of the World; Middle East | North America | South America | World Atlas | WIN $100 here; Countries on the Prime Meridian; PRINT THIS MAP;
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Though the cruise reaches its destination at Greenwich, London, where the Prime Meridian is located, the boat travels past a reconstructed version of William Shakespeare's Globe theatre, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, the newly opened Tate Modern, Canary Wharf, and the Millenium Dome.
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When the world's pyramids were built, their longitudes were reckoned from a very ancient Prime Meridian (0/360° longitude) that ran from pole to pole across the Great Pyramid at Giza, a full 31 degrees, 08 minutes, 00.8 seconds to the east or our modern Greenwich Prime Meridian.
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