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 ...

Often a town or city will appear on multiple maps at different ... north of the Equator (0° latitude) written as 53°24'N, and 2 degrees and 58 minutes west of the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) ...

where the Prime Meridian and the equator intersect. It’s called Null Island. This lonely way station in the Gulf of Guinea is, according to its website, a thriving republic with a population of ...

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 ...