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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.--At the meeting of the International Prime Meridian Conference to-day, a resolution was adopted providing that longituae should be counted from the meridian of Greenwich in ...

IT is to be regretted that the French delegates have declined to accept some of the resolutions of the Prime Meridian Conference, but it is to be hoped that their non-adherence is only temporary ...

Airy developed an accepted prime meridian line from the observatory at Greenwich, which became zero degrees longitude. It became a global benchmark for time zones, with each 15 degrees from the ...