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Greenwich Meridian

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  • Visitors to the Prime Meridian line, also known as the Greenwich Meridian line, are there because they want to stand with one foot in each of the eastern and western hemispheres.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Starting from the south and turning clockwise : two gently drooping cedars, historic McCartney House (family home of General Wolfe of Quebec), the graceful spire of a local church, glimpses of Clive's beloved Thames and, beyond, the City and Docklands skyline, then a Henry Moore statue just 50 yards away, the Royal Observatory (and the invisible Greenwich Meridian at 0° longitude), several Anglo-Saxon tumuli, and an avenue of veteran sweet chestnuts.

    Remembering Clive Chambers M 2009

  • Starting from the south and turning clockwise : two gently drooping cedars, historic McCartney House (family home of General Wolfe of Quebec), the graceful spire of a local church, glimpses of Clive's beloved Thames and, beyond, the City and Docklands skyline, then a Henry Moore statue just 50 yards away, the Royal Observatory (and the invisible Greenwich Meridian at 0° longitude), several Anglo-Saxon tumuli, and an avenue of veteran sweet chestnuts.

    Archive 2009-01-01 M 2009

  • Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) The mean solar time at the Greenwich Meridian, Greenwich, England, with the hours and days, since 1925, reckoned from midnight.

    Notes and Definitions 2008

  • The canvas has a perfectly calibrated Greenwich Meridian, and faultless arcs upon which to overlay the flattened globe...

    YesButNoButYes: Playboy's World Map 2008

  • QUEST: And the like the Greenwich Meridian, there is no treaty setting out the rules for the Dateline, or even its existence.

    CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2007 2007

  • This feature relates to the Paris Zero Meridian, the French zero longitude, used by French cartographers before the Greenwich Meridian became the international standard.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • This feature relates to the Paris Zero Meridian, the French zero longitude, used by French cartographers before the Greenwich Meridian became the international standard.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • This feature relates to the Paris Zero Meridian, the French zero longitude, used by French cartographers before the Greenwich Meridian became the international standard.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • CHRISTINE AMANPOUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Greenwich Mean Time -- where we are right now is the Greenwich Meridian, considers itself the arbiter of Universal Time and as such, considers the millennium will not start officially until it starts here.

    CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2002 2002

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