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- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) abstract "A prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851. By 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian on their charts and maps. In October of that year, at the behest of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., USA, for the International Meridian Conference. This conference selected the meridian passing through Greenwich as the official prime meridian due to its popularity. However, France abstained from the vote and French maps continued to use the Paris meridian for several decades. In the 18th century, London lexicographer, Malachy Postlethwayt published his African maps showing the 'Meridian of London' intersecting the Equator a few degrees west of the later meridian and Accra, Ghana.The prime meridian passes through the Airy transit circle (51°28′40.1″N 0°0′5.3″W) of the Greenwich observatory. It was long marked by a brass strip in the courtyard, now replaced by stainless steel, and, since 16 December 1999, has been marked by a powerful green laser shining north across the London night sky.Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers show that the marked prime meridian at Greenwich is not exactly at zero degrees, zero minutes and zero seconds but at approximately 5.3 seconds of arc to the west of the meridian (meaning that the meridian appears to be 102 metres east of this line). In the past this offset has been attributed to the establishment of reference meridians for space-based location systems such as WGS 84 (which GPS relies on) or that errors gradually crept into the International Time Bureau timekeeping process.".
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- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Greenwich Meridian".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Greenwich meridian".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Greenwich meridien".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Greenwich".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Prime Meridian".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Prime meridian (Greenwich)".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Prime meridian".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Royal Observatory".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Greenwich Meridian".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "prime (Greenwich) meridian".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) wikiPageWikiLinkText "prime meridian".
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- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) name "International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian".
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- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) subject Category:1884_establishments_in_the_British_Empire.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) subject Category:English_inventions.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) subject Category:Geography_of_Greenwich.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) subject Category:Named_meridians.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) subject Category:Prime_meridians.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) point "51.47781111111111 -0.001475".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) type SpatialThing.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) comment "A prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851. By 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian on their charts and maps. In October of that year, at the behest of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., USA, for the International Meridian Conference.".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) label "Prime meridian (Greenwich)".
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Greenwich-meridiaan.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs خط_غرينتش.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Meridianu_de_Greenwich.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Qrinviç_meridianı.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Грынвіцкі_мерыдыян.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Начален_меридиан.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Grinički_meridijan.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Meridià_de_Greenwich.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Základní_poledník.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Nulmeridianen.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Grenviĉa_Meridiano.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Meridiano_de_Greenwich.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Algmeridiaan.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Greenwich_meridianoa.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs نصفالنهار_مبدأ.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Greenwichmeridianin.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Méridien_de_Greenwich.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Nulmeridiaan.
- Prime_meridian_(Greenwich) sameAs Meridiano_de_Greenwich.