prime meridian
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The route from New York to Istanbul to Santiago would have tacked on two unnecessary crossings of the prime meridian.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024
Figure 2.104 In the latitude–longitude system, angles describe the location of a point on Earth relative to the equator and the prime meridian.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Oxford, located one degree, 15 minutes and 24 seconds west of the prime meridian at Greenwich, is technically 5 minutes and 2 seconds behind.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2016
Interestingly, with or without filtering, a large visible stripe that’s apparently devoid of tweets appears over the prime meridian in London.
From Forbes ● Dec. 5, 2014
The Distracted Globe was located at the western-hemisphere intersection of the Boulevard and the Avenue, two brightly lit streets that stretched completely around the planet along its equator and prime meridian.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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