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Any position on the earths surface can be identified by:

Its angular elevation North or South of the equator (latitude), and

Its line of longitude East or West of the Greenwich prime meridian, which runs from the north pole to the south pole, passing through a point at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, England, and is the worlds agreed datum for 0 degrees longitude.

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