What would you find at zero degrees longitude on a globe?

Answer 1

Territory belonging to:

-- England

-- France

-- Spain

-- Algeria

-- Mali

-- Burkina Faso

-- Togo

-- Ghana

Eight (8) countries, a whole lot of water, and Antarctica.

Answer 2

Zero degrees longitude is the Prime Meridian, which passes through Greenwich, London in the United Kingdom. At this point, you would find the Royal Observatory, established in 1675, which is the reference point for the Prime Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time.

Answer 3

"Zero latitude" is the description of an imaginary line that extends in a complete

circle all around the globe, called the equator. The latitude of every point on the

line is zero, and what you find there depends on exactly where you are on the line.

If you were to start at one point on the equator and travel the full 25,000 miles

around it, back to where you started, your journal of everything you encountered

along the way would include . . .

-- leaving the city of Macapá in Brazil, traveling eastward

-- sailed almost 4,200 miles across the Atlantic Ocean; came ashore in Gabon,

about 28 miles south of Libreville

-- trekked 318 miles eastward across Gabon, to the Congo border

-- trekked 264 miles eastward across Congo, to the Democratic Republic of the

Congo border (different country)

-- trekked 827 miles eastward across Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the

Uganda border

-- trekked 178 miles eastward across Uganda, to the shore of Lake Victoria

-- swam 118 miles eastward across Lake Victoria; passed the border with

Kenya somewhere on the Lake, before reaching the eastern shore

-- trekked 483 miles eastward across Kenya, to the Somalia border

-- trekked 131 miles eastward across Somalia, to the Indian Ocean coast

-- swam 3,926 miles eastward across the Indian Ocean, to the coast of the

Indonesian island of Sumatra

-- trekked 284 miles to the east coast of Sumatra

-- swam 371 miles eastward across the Natuna Sea, to the Indonesian island of Borneo

-- trekked 576 miles eastward across Borneo, to its eastern shore on the Makasar

Strait; note for the log: these treks have been so nice and warm, we've been getting

along in most places with only a light jacket, and we have not had to be to concerned

with our skin drying out

-- swam 164 miles eastward across the Makasar Strait, to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

-- trekked 15 miles across a skinny part of Sulawesi, to the shore of the Gulf of Tomini

-- except for a couple more short treks across a few small Indonesian islands,

amounting to less than 15 miles all told, the next 10,250 miles consisted of a

refreshing swim across the Pacific Ocean, all the way to Isla Isabela in the

Galapagos

-- after a brief 25-mile trek eastward across Isla Isabela, it was back into the water,

and a bracing 770-mile swim to the coast of Ecuador

-- trekked 311 miles eastward across Ecuador, to the border of Colombia

-- trekked 384 miles eastward across Colombia, to the border of Brazil ! Here

we are in Brazil again ... surely we must be getting close to our starting point !

-- We were right! After another jaunt of only another 1,312 miles eastward across

the Amazon rain forest, we're back at the city of Macapá in Brazil, right where we

started from.

Looking back through our diary and adding up all of our trekking and swimming and

trekking, we find that our piece-meal entries total up to 24,907 miles. This compares

not too shabbily ... in fact rather shockingly ... with the Earth's published equatorial

circumference of 24,901.55 miles, confirming that we have in fact circumtrekked

the globe.

Answer 4

The Prime Meridian. It goes through Greenwich. This line is sometimes called "the Greenwich line".

Answer 5

The town of Greenwich, England and lots of ocean.

Answer 6

The imaginary line at zero latitude on Earth is the equator.

A representation of it is often printed on a globe.

Answer 7

The Prime Meridian.