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Every meridian connects the Earth's north pole and south pole. On its way, one

meridian can run through any point on Earth. The definition of the Prime one is

that it crosses a certain mark on the floor of a certain room at the Royal Observatory

in Greenwich, England.

Once that requirement is satisfied, you have a meridian that runs through

the North Greenland Sea, the Norwegian Sea, England, the English Channel,

France, Spain, the western Mediterranean, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo,

Ghana, the Gulf of Guinea, across the Equator, then the South Atlantic Ocean,

and Antarctica.

That line is defined as zero "longitude", and all longitudes on Earth are measured

starting from it. It's also half of the boundary between the eastern and western

hemispheres.

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