Zero Degrees
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Zero Degrees by Glyn Baker as part of the Geograph project.
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Zero Degrees
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 31 Aug 2016
The stone marks the Greenwich Meridian as it passes through Coney Hall Park. A few months ago I heard a report on the radio that the people who run the GPS system claimed that the meridian line marker at the Royal Observatory was 100m out of place. How a totally arbitrary line on the ground chosen by the Royal observatory 300 years ago can be in the wrong place beats me! Where the line was drawn is where it is, and always will be until international agreement decides to move the Image to somewhere else.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.367278
Longitude
-0.00162