Where is the prime meridian in relationship to Orlando?

Answer 1

We'll assume the question refers to Orlando, Florida, in the USA.

Orlando's City Hall ... just northwest of the overpass where the East-West Expressway

crosses I-4, is at 81.38 degrees west longitude.

If you stay at the same latitude as City Hall, and shoot straight east until you get to the

Prime Meridian, you arrive at a point in central Algeria, about 48 miles north of Adrar and

600 miles south-southwest of Algiers. That's a trip of 4,945 miles.

But traveling straight east isn't the fastest way to get there. By traveling the "great circle"

route, you can cut that distance by 115 miles, to only 4,830 miles.

But we're not done yet. The Prime Meridian is an imaginary line on the earth that runs

all the way between the north and south poles, passing through a particular point in England.

That point in Algeria at the same latitude as Orlando is not the spot on the Prime Meridian

that's closest to Orlando. The nearest spot happens to be in the far north Atlantic Ocean,

very roughly equal distances from Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Svalbard. That point

is only 4,167 miles from Orlando, and it's also on the Prime Meridian.