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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Meridian Line was introduced after a meeting in 1884 to agree upon a new world standard Visitors to the world-famous Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London, are to ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. A series of bronze medallions dots the streets of Paris in a pattern that ...

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 ...