The fascinating Confluence Project records four visits to (0,0).
- Visit #1 was by a US Coast Guard vessel that happened to be sailing past, and they took a (bad) photo of the buoy too.
- Visit #2 is not listed. Mysterious...
- Visit #3 was by a group of artists (!), who sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Tema, Ghana on a cargo ship. There they chartered a boat and sailed almost two days non-stop to get nearby, finally taking a small zodiac (rubber dinghy) to the exact spot. This is the only remotely practical option for the average tourist, and also the first and only visit that fully met the Confluence Project's exacting rules -- but no sign of the buoy!?
- Visit #4 was on a research ship sailing from Angola to Europe.
CNN
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Null Island: How a fictional destination made it onto round-the-word cruise itineraries | CNN
3 weeks ago - Null Island isn’t an actual place. But that hasn’t stopped a small number of cruises from taking intrepid tourists to visit its location: 0 degrees latitude and longitude.
TIL that there is a fictional island in the South Atlantic, off the west coast of Africa called 'Null Island'. Although it doesn't exist in reality, it serves as an error trap for map systems. Map enthusiasts have given the island its own history, geography and even flag.
Keep believing we don't exist foolish non-nullians, keep believing. We shall soon see who doesn't exist. More on reddit.com
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December 7, 2020Null 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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February 4, 2024This is null island, a permanent buoy marking where the equator and prime meridian intersect. at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E)
Fun fact: Tons of pictures etc get upload with the geotag on this exact location. That's because when some cameras can't identify your location, they save the location as Null;Null, meaning unidentifiable. When you upload those pics, the data can be misinterpreted as 0°00"00'N;0°00"00'E, resulting in the geotag showing this location, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. More on reddit.com
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September 22, 2021TIL of Null Island, a fictional island represented by a buoy at coordinates 0,0; the point which the equator meets the prime meridian. Its used to help prevent and remedy navigational errors.
How do they anchor the buoy at that depth? Is it really tethered to the sea floor?
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October 23, 2020Videos
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Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist - YouTube
Where is null island?
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Why Cartographers Get Lost in Null Island - YouTube
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What Lies at Point 0°0′ - Place Where the World Begins - YouTube
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What's REALLY at Earth's 0,0? The Truth About Null Island! - YouTube
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Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist (ft @TomScottGo ...
Stamen
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The Many Lives of Null Island - Stamen Design
August 9, 2024 - A visit to the Null Island Buoy by Pål Torsgård on Instagram, on the ship MOU Island Constructor · In any case, it’s clear that Null Island is here to stay, no matter how you choose to visit it.
LOC
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The Geographical Oddity of Null Island | Worlds Revealed
It doesn’t seem like much of a place to visit. Granted, I’ve never actually been there, but I think I can imagine it: the vastness of ocean, overcast skies, a heavy humidity in the air. No land in sight, with the only distinguishing feature being a lonely buoy, bobbing up and down in the water.
The fascinating Confluence Project records four visits to (0,0).
- Visit #1 was by a US Coast Guard vessel that happened to be sailing past, and they took a (bad) photo of the buoy too.
- Visit #2 is not listed. Mysterious...
- Visit #3 was by a group of artists (!), who sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Tema, Ghana on a cargo ship. There they chartered a boat and sailed almost two days non-stop to get nearby, finally taking a small zodiac (rubber dinghy) to the exact spot. This is the only remotely practical option for the average tourist, and also the first and only visit that fully met the Confluence Project's exacting rules -- but no sign of the buoy!?
- Visit #4 was on a research ship sailing from Angola to Europe.
Atlas Obscura
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Null Island Is One of the Most Visited Places on Earth. Too Bad It Doesn't Exist
August 7, 2025 - This spot is a hive of activity in the world of geographic information systems (GIS). As far as digital geospatial data is concerned, it may be one of the most visited places on Earth! This is Null Island.
Wikipedia
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Null Island - Wikipedia
3 days ago - Natural Earth describes the entity as a "1 meter square island" (11 sq ft) with "scale rank 100, indicating it should never be shown in mapping". The name "Null" refers to the two zero coordinates, as null values (indicating an absence of data) are often coerced to a value of 0 when converted to an integer context or "no-nulls allowed" context.
All Famous Faqs
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Can you visit null Island? - All Famous Faqs
July 20, 2022 - In the realm of digital cartography, it is one of the most-visited places in the world. The only problem for its millions of visitors is that there isn’t much to see. Null Island doesn’t exist.
Big Think
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Welcome to Null Island, where lost data goes to die - Big Think
October 5, 2023 - That naming started off a remarkable process: it turned something non-existent into something imaginary, which is not quite the same. Suddenly, maps were drawn of Null Island, flags designed, fake backstories conjured up. Squint, and you can almost see the island now.
Nullis
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Visit Null Island!
We look forward to meeting you on Null Island! ... Tourists visit the outflow of Settlement Lake Bring sturdy shoes!
IFLScience
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Null Island: The Unreal Location That Inhabits The World's Digital Maps | IFLScience
February 9, 2024 - It isn't a real island, although you could sail to its location if you wanted to.
Nullis
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Null Island: Like No Place On Earth
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...
Atlas Obscura
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Null Island Is a Fake Island Where the Prime Meridian and Equator Meet
August 7, 2025 - After crossing about 400 miles ... its appellation, Null Island is not an island. If you were to try to visit Null Island, all you would see is water in the Gulf of Guinea....
The Guardian
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Null Island: weather reports from place that does not exist | World news | The Guardian
June 8, 2023 - An exclusion zone around the buoy prevents physical visits, but as Null Island is the supposed position of anyone without location data, it has been called one of the most visited places on Earth.
Freethink
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Welcome to Null Island, where lost data goes to die
April 12, 2022 - That naming started off a remarkable process: it turned something non-existent into something imaginary, which is not quite the same. Suddenly, maps were drawn of Null Island, flags designed, fake backstories conjured up. Squint, and you can almost see the island now.
ScienceAlert
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Welcome to Null Island, The Most 'Visited' Place on Earth That Doesn't Actually Exist : ScienceAlert
May 11, 2016 - After years of geocoder errors, Null Island has a bunch of addresses and places labelled to it that do not, in reality, exist there. This means that it is one of the most interesting, most visited places on Earth, despite the fact that it's ...
Atlas Obscura
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Null Island
August 23, 2021 - Despite being more than 300 miles from the nearest land, Null Island isn’t completely desolate. If you were to travel there, you would find a lonely buoy bobbing in the sea. This is part of the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic ...
Plateau Astro
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Take me to Null Island | Plateau Astro
December 20, 2023 - But that didn't stop us from giving this spot a name: Null Island. The nearest land to this spot is about 600 kilometres away. 0° and 0° is pretty remote, however a weather buoy named "Soul" is permanently stationed there.
UNILAD
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Cruise ships are traveling to an island that doesn't appear on any map and tourists are desperate to visit
1 week ago - There’s a place on Earth that you can visit, but it technically doesn’t exist due to its location. Ever hopped on a cruise ship, only to be told you’re about to go nowhere to see nothing? That’s what passengers of the 2023-2024 Viking World Cruise experienced. Having boarded the ship which sailed off the coast of West Africa, Russell and Gail Lee found themselves on a path set for Null Island – a place you probably have never heard of.
Old Salt Blog
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A Virtual Visit to Null Island — “Like No Place on Earth”
January 1, 2019 - The Mostly Maps blog has an example of a 3 bedroom property near Enfield in North East London whose coordinates land on Null Island. They comment: “This is in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, which as far as I know hasn’t suffered massive continental drift to end up in the middle of the ocean. Zoom the map out and you can see why this unique property seems to be alone in the middle of the ocean; it’s really on Null Island.