The Meridian line is an imaginary line which runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It runs through the main telescope at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London. The point is known ...

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For years visitors have stood on the stainless steel Greenwich Meridian Line. Scientists say that marking was in the wrong place because distortions caused by gravity weren't taken into account. Good ...

Greenwich Meridian Line is in the wrong place. Researchers have discovered the world famous stainless steel tourist attraction marking Longitude 0 should be in Greenwich Park - and not the Royal ...

Researchers have revealed how the Prime Meridian line came to be placed about 100 metres away from the true divide between east and west. It was worked out in the 1980s using GPS technology that the ...

The prime meridian has shifted a few hundred feet. An astronomer helped figure out why. In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's ...

Mr George Nkrumah Ansere, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) Director, Tema Region, has said the Authority has identified seven points on the imaginary Greenwich Meridian line for tourism development.

Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne. For years, visitors have stood on the stainless steel Greenwich Meridian Line thinking they were standing on the exact middle point between east and west. But they ...

Researchers have discovered the world famous stainless steel tourist attraction should not be at its current Royal Observatory location Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing ...