2 days ago - The point on the Earth's surface defined as Null Island is located in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 600 kilometres (320 nmi) south of the West African coast in the Gulf of Guinea.

Null Island is an imaginary island located at 0°N 0°E (hence “Null”) in the South Atlantic Ocean.

October 5, 2023 - This location, in the Gulf of Guinea, is where non-geocoded data goes to die. Recently renamed “Null Island,” it has also captured the imagination — and acquired a map and several flags.

The Republic of Null Island is one of the smallest and least-visited nations on Earth. Situated where the Prime Meridian crosses the Equator, Null Island sits 1600 kilometres off the western coast of Africa...

February 9, 2024 - In their words: “It is a fictional, 1-meter-square island located off Africa where the equator and prime meridian cross. Being centered at 0,0 (zero latitude, zero longitude) it is useful for flagging geocode failures which are routed to 0,0 ...

June 26, 2025 - You could say the City of Bad Data is the capitol of Null Island.

Null Island denotes an imaginary island as a cartographic placeholder on the earth's surface where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. The point has GPS coordinates 0°N 0°E and is located in international waters in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, where it is marked by ...

August 7, 2025 - Null Island is an imaginary island located at 0°N 0°E (hence “Null”) in the South Atlantic Ocean. This point is where the equator meets the prime meridian.

June 8, 2023 - The fictional Null Island occupies an undistinguished patch of ocean in the Gulf of Guinea, more than 300 miles (500km) from the nearest genuine land. But its location is visible thanks to the presence of Soul, a conical Autonomous Temperature ...

October 17, 2025 - It's found exactly where zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude meet (0°N 0°E / 0°N 0°E / 0; 0). This is where the prime meridian crosses the equator. Even though it's called an "island," it's not a real piece of land.

August 9, 2024 - It is an imaginary island located at a real place: the coordinates of 0º latitude and 0º longitude, a location in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa where the Prime Meridian meets the Equator, hundreds of miles from any real dry land.

November 29, 2024 - This isolated and barren location in open water is far away from land and human habitation and interaction.

August 7, 2025 - You’ve got a list of geocoded ... look for its pin to drop on a very specific place in the international waters off the Gulf of Guinea: Null Island....

March 19, 2026 - Its approximate location is a point on the Atlantic Ocean about 600 km west of the Gulf of Guinea on the West African coast. The nearest land mass is a small island off the coast of Ghana , 570 km north (4°45′30″N, 1°58′33″W).

July 6, 2021 - Null Island is located at 0°N 0°E, where the prime meridian and the equator cross. The location is marked by a buoy in the Atlantic.

May 11, 2016 - Though that doesn't sound like a big deal, 0°N 0°E is actually a real place that happens to lie in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. Since geographers deal with this coordinate all of the time when working out errors, they've nicknamed ...

August 13, 2023 - But rather it’s a set of geographical coordinates where the equator (latitude 0°) intersects with the prime meridian (longitude 0°). This means that it’s located in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean…

March 7, 2026 - However, Null Island does not actually exist as a physical place. It is a virtual location that is sometimes used to represent a point with undefined or unknown coordinates in geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping applications.

3 weeks ago - Incomplete or missing location data, he explains, defaults to “null” or 0. And those zeros — 0 degrees latitude, 0 degrees longitude — point to a remote spot in the Gulf of Guinea.

August 23, 2021 - A PIRATA weather buoy, the only thing that is really at Null Island. Graham Curran/CC BY-SA 4.0 ... At the point where the Prime Meridian and the Equator intersect, there is an island that appears to see quite a bit of traffic—a surprising fact, considering that it doesn't exist. Sometimes, when uploading a photo to a website, tagging a post to a location, or writing an article for a popular travel website, you’ll find that the address you’ve entered leads to a location in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Africa.