When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tourists who want to take photographs at the prime meridian often stand at the Royal Observatory ...

It's where geographers "draw the line". Dan Smith has the story of where and how we settled on the Prime Meridian. 🌐 ...

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 ...

Introduction: one line to rule the world -- Geographical confusion -- Absurd vanity : the world's prime meridians before c.1790 -- Declarations of independence: prime meridians in America, c.1784-1884 ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. The Prime Meridian was set in 1884 using the large Transit ...

Upon reading that Sam Hamilton’s Te Moana Meridian delivers a speculative UN policy proposal to move the prime meridian from Greenwich, England to its completely opposite coordinates in the South ...