The prime meridian runs through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, just outside London. Everywhere in the world measures time and distances from this line, which is marked on all world maps. On the ...

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 ...

British astronomers have had a significant influence on how we view the world today. Every place on Earth is measured in terms of its distance east or west of the Prime Meridian Line at Greenwich, ...

In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's prime meridian (the north-south line marking zero degrees longitude) should pass through ...

2009 marks the 125th anniversary of the official adoption of the Greenwich Meridian line as the prime meridian.The markers were erected by East Grinstead Town Council to celebrate the Millennium. They ...

It was late afternoon on Monday as I stood on the Greenwich Mean Time prime meridian line in the verdant patch of London that gives it its name. I surveyed the park bathed in golden sunlight below and ...

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government is working to replace Greenwich in UK with Ujjain in MP as the Global Prime Meridian (GPM). Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav shared the information with his ...