Recently there has been an unusual amount of interest in expanding U.S. territory. A better idea: why not go REALLY BIG and relocate the Prime Meridian from Greenwich, England, to Saint Paul, ...

Derby could have been the line of longitude from which all calculations have been taken. Read more in the latest instalment ...

That squiggly line through the Pacific where days begin and end has no legal authority and technically doesn’t exist. By Mike Ives The writer, who lives in South Korea, has reported from Kiribati, a ...

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 ...