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 ...
Derby could have been the line of longitude from which all calculations have been taken. Read more in the latest instalment ...
June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian and considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...
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, ...