just as the Equator splits it into north and south. This imaginary line now known as the Greenwich Prime Meridian not only allows us to navigate the globe but also keeps the world ticking to the same ...

The line going through London, called Greenwich Meridian ... by using a globe. Go on! It’s easy! The globe above shows the Northern and Southern Hemispheres divided by the Equator.

The intersection of the Equator and the Prime Meridian lands somewhere west of the coast of Africa, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. These are coordinates (0,0) in map coordinates system WGS84 ...

IT is to be regretted that the French delegates have declined to accept some of the resolutions of the Prime Meridian ... at a point on the equator having the same meridian as the Greenwich ...

In the case of latitude, the easiest place to start from and set as zero is the equator. However, the location of the prime meridian, which marks zero degrees longitude, is completely arbitrary ...

Whereas the parallels of latitude are defined by their distances from the Equator and the Poles ... The choice of the prime meridian among these was purely arbitrary, but not before they were ...

is called the Prime (or Greenwich) Meridian. Longitude lines run along the Earth's surface in a north-south direction, and unlike latitude lines, they divide the globe into segments like those of ...

A globe has two fixed points—the North Pole ... between them is measured in degrees of longitude. Greenwich Meridian or Prime Meridian with a value of 0° longitude serves as a common base ...

Great circle—A circle formed on the globe by a plane that passes through ... formed on the surface of the Earth, parallel to the Equator associating all the points of a given latitude. Prime Meridian— ...