June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is ...

People have been visiting it for decades but after 131 years it turns out the Greenwich Meridian Line is in the wrong place. Researchers have discovered the world famous stainless steel tourist ...

Greenwich in London is home to the Prime Meridian, but just visiting the world-famous Royal Observatory won’t actually make you cross from one hemisphere to the other.

The Greenwich Meridian was chosen to be the Prime Meridian of the World in 1884. Forty-one delegates from 25 nations met in Washington DC for the International Meridian Conference.

The Greenwich meridian does not just mark the man-made divide between east and west, it was the place where the clocks were set in the form of Greenwich Mean Time, now known as Universal Time.

It was on October 13, 1884 that the Greenwich meridian was officially adopted as the prime meridian, the imaginary north-south line where the longitude was 0 degrees. A.S.Ganesh gives you a ...

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GREENWICH MERIDIAN LINE. The real Greenwich Meridian line is about 100 metres from where you think it is. If you’ve joined the massive queue for a photo at the Greenwich Prime Meridian line at ...

Greenwich Meridian Line is in the wrong place. Researchers have discovered the world famous stainless steel tourist attraction marking Longitude 0 should be in Greenwich Park - and not the Royal ...