WIRED Good Headline: Greenwich Resolves Subprime Longitude Crisis

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Randy Alfred Email 19 hours ago


An international convention in 1884 selected the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, as the longitude of the Prime Meridian.

1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude

This is me with one foot on either side of the Prime Meridian. I had straddled the equator, previously when I was in Ecuador.

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