From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. A series of bronze medallions dots the streets of Paris in a pattern that ...

If we go by DLR to Greenwich, which DLR should we take and which stop of the DLR should we get off to see the Prime Meridian Line, the Royal Observatory, Queen's House, the Maritime Museum. After ...

Staff at Greenwich's Royal Observatory are increasingly asked why GPS did not align with the prime meridian. Now scientists have come up with an answer The Greenwich Meridian was chosen to be the ...

Every year thousands visit Royal Observatory to see the famed Meridian Line. The line, built 131 years ago, marks out the division between the eastern and western sides of the hemisphere. It also ...

The Meridian Line was introduced after a meeting in 1884 to agree upon a new world standard Visitors to the world-famous Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London, are to ...

If you have ever taken a selfie at the Royal Observatory in London while standing astride the Prime Merdian line you may be disappointed to know that we actually got the location wrong. For years, ...

Globe rolls along Longitude 0° 0' 0". The Meridian Line in Greenwich represents the Prime Meridian of the world, with a Longitude of Zero. Every place on Earth is measured in terms of its angle east ...

The Meridian line is an imaginary line which runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It runs through the main telescope at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London. The point is known ...

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 ...