LONGITUDE? ATTITUDE

The Prime Meridian was chosen because Greenwich said “pick me,” confidently.

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The Prime Meridian was set at Greenwich by the International Meridian Conference in 1884. It was chosen by delegates, partly because Greenwich's observatory was widely used, not on a whim.

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