1.0United Kingdom News Beep | NewsBeep.comhttps://www.newsbeep.com/ukNEWSBEEPhttps://www.newsbeep.com/uk/author/newsbeep/The famous brass line at Greenwich where millions of tourists stand with one foot in each hemisphere is in the wrong place, because when the world switched to satellite positioning, true zero longitude quietly shifted about 100 metres east, leaving the historic Prime Meridian marker no longer at zero at all.rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="h5LNu1sLeS"><a href="https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/767276/">The famous brass line at Greenwich where millions of tourists stand with one foot in each hemisphere is in the wrong place, because when the world switched to satellite positioning, true zero longitude quietly shifted about 100 metres east, leaving the historic Prime Meridian marker no longer at zero at all.</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/767276/embed/#?secret=h5LNu1sLeS" width="600" height="338" title="“The famous brass line at Greenwich where millions of tourists stand with one foot in each hemisphere is in the wrong place, because when the world switched to satellite positioning, true zero longitude quietly shifted about 100 metres east, leaving the historic Prime Meridian marker no longer at zero at all.” — United Kingdom News Beep | NewsBeep.com" data-secret="h5LNu1sLeS" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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