A Derby community group has unveiled a vision to create a planetarium at a historic building where the celebrated astronomer John Flamsteed once lived. The Friends of 27 Queen Street want to turn the ...

By then, virtually all the oceans of the world had been mapped by British ships on the basis of the Greenwich Meridian - and these maritime charts were widely used by the international community.

The line going through London, called Greenwich Meridian, is the starting point at zero degrees. The other lines show how many degrees east or west of this you are. If I want to see where a place ...

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A better idea: why not go REALLY BIG and relocate the Prime Meridian from Greenwich, England, to Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA? What better place than the historically highest navigable point on the ...