Detail of 0? monument

Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 13 Jun 2005

This is the detail of one panel of the Peacehaven meridian monument (Image). Here is the text; the main part consists of four columns: place — country — spherical distance in statute miles — azimuths (degrees) London (Greenwich) — England — 48 — 0° 00 Edinburgh — Scotland — 380 — 341° 04 Dublin — Ireland — 335 — 306° 17 Canberra — Australia — [indistinct] — 67° 15 Ottawa — Canada — 3359 — 306° 17 Delhi — India — 4172 — 79° 51 Cape Town — Sth Africa — 5961 — 164° 43 Wellington — New Zealand — 11735 — 22° 52 Georgetown — Br Guiana — [indistinct] — 243° 36 Valetta — Malta — [?]1956 — 159° 27 St. Helier — Jersey — [indistinct] — 221° 04 Victoria — Br. Columbia — 4804 — 323° 51 St. Johns — Newfoundland — [?]2341 — 285° 36 [indistinct] Town — West Indies — [indistinct] — 271° [indistinct] Freetown — Sierra Leone — 3017 — 199° [?]09 Jamestown — St. Helena — 4620 — [indistinct]86° 00 Rangoon — Burma — 3586 — 74° 36 Cape Coast Town — Gold Coast — 3144 — 181° 35 Pietermaritzburg — Natal — 5856 — 153° 47 Port Louis — Mauritius — 5993 — 127° 38 Halifax — Nova Scotia — 2893 — 287° 22 Fredericton — New Brunswick — 2972 — 290° 42 Charlotte Town — Prince Ed. Island — 2818 — 289° 09 Belize — Br. Honduras — [?]5206 — 279° 54 Gibraltar — Spain — 1035 — 195° 56 Singapore — Malay States — 6750 — 78° 25 Aden — Arabia — 3634 — 119° 47 Hongkong [sic] — China — 6003 — 57° 42 Note – the azimuths are measured from north round by east – 0° to 360°

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