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Why is greenwich england inportant to a geographer?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 8/18/2019

Because 0 degrees longitude passes through Greenwich - which is a suburb of southeast London. All other lines of longitude are either east or west of Greenwich. All of the worlds time is also measured as being either before or after GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

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