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What is the antipode of Null Island?
Null Island, 0°N 0°E, at the intersection of the prime meridian and the equator, has its antipodes at 0°N 180°E, at the intersection of the antimeridian and
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TIL about Null Island, the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E), i.e. where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. Since there is no landmass located at these coordinates, it is not an actual island.
Why not call it "Null point" then? More on reddit.com
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At the point on Earth's surface at 0° latitude and 0° longitude (0°N 0°E, or in the Gulf of Guinea), there, there is a location called "Null Island," but there's no actual island. The location is marked by a permanently-moored weather buoy.
I love this stuff. Human exploration at its finest. "Look, 0-0-0! Let's put a buoy here". 👌 More on reddit.com
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Antipodes Geographic Official Atlas — Archipelasia
Cant believe they made Agartha British 🥀 More on reddit.com
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Null Island, the geographic center of everything
There's 16,000ft (4km) of cable holing the buoy down to the seabed. More on reddit.com
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What are the antipodes of Null Island?
Null Island, 0°N 0°E, at the intersection of the prime meridian and the equator, has its antipodes at 0°N 180°E, at the intersection of the antimeridian and
diametrically opposite point on the Earth's surface
Map of US States/Territory antipodes, highlighting those that overlap another land mass.
This map shows the antipode of each point on Earth's surface—the points where the blue and yellow overlap are land antipodes; most land has its antipodes in the ocean. This map uses … Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
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Antipodes - Wikipedia
6 days ago - Point Nemo, the point in the Southern Pacific Ocean most distant from any other land, is precisely opposite a desolate piece of desert in western Kazakhstan. Null Island, 0°N 0°E / 0°N 0°E, at the intersection of the prime meridian ...
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Globe Mobile
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The "China Syndrome" Myth
In other words, take your longitude, subtract it from 180, and then go the subtracted difference from the Greenwich meridian in the opposite direction from which your longitude is measured from that prime meridian; if you're west of Greenwich, bo east. Having done this for Denver, we see that its antipode is in the Indian Ocean right by the intersection of the circles for 40 south latitude and 75 east longitude, which happens to be northeast of an island called Kerguelen and quite far from China!
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NCESC
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Why is it called Null Island? - Geographic Pedia
June 22, 2024 - The antipode, which is the exact opposite point on Earth, is located at 0 degrees latitude and 180 degrees longitude. This point intersects the antimeridian and the equator, creating an interesting geographical concept.
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Quora
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What do you think it means if a certain island has zero longitude? - Quora
Answer (1 of 5): I believe that it means that either the island is Great Britain (also known as simply Britain) or rather dubiously it could be Null Island, which isn’t actually an island but the area, marked by a buoy, on the Equator at zero longitude. The locations at zero longitude form the P...
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Antipodes Map
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Antipodes Map - Tunnel to the other side of the world
Doha (Qatar) — Pitcairn Island (United Kingdom - Overseas Territory) Antipodes Island (New Zealand) — Gatteville-le-Phare (France) Decimal degrees (DD) express latitude and longitude geographic coordinates as decimal fractions and are an alternative to using degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS).
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Wolfram
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GeoSpatialDistanceList | Wolfram Function Repository
Find the successive distances between your location, Null Island, which is the area of ocean near Africa with 0 latitude and 0 longitude, the North and South Poles, and the antipode of your location:
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Wikipedia
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Null Island - Wikipedia
2 days ago - Null Island is the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude ( 0°N 0°E / 0°N 0°E), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect in the Atlantic Ocean near the Gulf of Guinea.
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NamuWiki
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null island - NamuWiki
March 19, 2026 - The antipodal point of Null Island is the 0N 180E point where the equator and the International Date Line intersect.
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Department of Conservation
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Antipodes Islands: Places to go in the subantarctic islands, Southland
Learn about one of the lesser known and least visited islands of New Zealand’s subantarctic islands. At the start of the current millennium, the Antipodes were recognised as being the first piece of land to see the new day, although only two scientists got to experience it!
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Reddit
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r/imaginarymaps on Reddit: Antipodes Geographic Official Atlas — Archipelasia
January 23, 2026 - This is Antipodes island - Named because it is the nearest antipode (geographical opposite) of London. It is actually the antipode of the French village Gatteville-Le-Phare ... Does anyone know what the antipode (Exact opposite point of that ...
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Big Think
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Welcome to Null Island, where lost data goes to die - Big Think
October 5, 2023 - You guessed it: this is Null Island — the perfect anchorage for non-geolocated data. But don’t go rent a boat on the coast of Ghana or the island of São Tomé, two of the nearest bits of dry land. After crossing about 400 miles (650 km) of open water, you will find more of the same upon arrival.
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LOC
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The Geographical Oddity of Null Island | Worlds Revealed
We end up with an island of misfit data. The zero latitude, zero longitude location of “Null Island”-fame is based on the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84), a commonly-used global reference system for modeling the Earth that is the standard for the Department of Defense and the Global Positioning System (GPS).
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Quora
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Why are zero degrees latitude marked as ‘North’, and zero degrees longitude marked as ‘East’ for ‘Null Island’? How do you determine such description at zero degrees? - Quora
Answer (1 of 7): It’s a convention, like how midnight, the instant of 00:00.000, is labelled AM. As to why north and east have been chosen, imagine a graph. Conventionally, the “origin” of the graph is 0,0; positive numbers on the x-axis are to the right of the of the origin, and positive ...
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Heritage-expeditions
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Antipodes Islands Expeditions Cruises Tours
Visit the Antipodes Islands which lie southeast of mainland New Zealand. The remote island group are a veritable liferaft for wildlife and is home to a number of endemic species as well as a resting place for pelagic species.