Null Island - Wikipedia Null Island Null Island The weather buoy moored at the coordinates of Null Island Null Island Geography Coordinates 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / 0 ; 0Coordinates : 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / 0 ; 0 Additional information This fictional island is a cartographical convenience only Null Island is a fictional island in the Gulf of Guinea added to the Natural Earth public domain map dataset, located where the equator crosses the prime meridian, at coordinates 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / 0 ; 0. Natural Earth describes the entity as a `` 1 meter square island '' with `` scale rank 100, indicating it should never be shown in mapping. '' The name ' Null ' refers to the two 0 co-ordinates, both of which are sometimes known as null in mathematics. The concept and name for Null Island were developed in 2011 or slightly earlier. Since then, numerous web pages have documented this fictional landmass 's flag, geography, and history. Contents 1 Other uses of the coordinates 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Other uses of the coordinates The location is used by mapping systems to trap errors. Such errors arise, for example, where an image artifact is erroneously associated to the location by software which can not attribute a geo - position, and instead associates a latitude and longitude of `` Null, Null '' or `` 0, 0 ''. Other data mapped to the location include activity events from the Strava fitness - tracking app, apparently ( as reported in January 2018 by Bellingcat ) mapped to the location due to users entering `` 0, 0 '' coordinates to disguise their real location. In reality, a weather observation buoy, part of the PIRATA system, is moored near 0, 0. The depth at this place is around 4,940 metres ( 16,210 ft ). See also Colonel Bleep, a 1957 cartoon that took place on the fictitious Zero Zero Island, at the same location as Null Island, where earth 's equator meets the Greenwich Meridian. References ^ Jump up to : Kurgan, Laura ( 2013 ). Close Up at a Distance : Mapping, Technology and Politics. New York : Zone Books. p. 157. ISBN 9781935408284. Jump up ^ `` Null Island ''. Archived from the original on 1 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013. ^ Jump up to : `` Natural Earth version 1.3 release notes ''. 2011 - 01 - 31. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013. Jump up ^ Hotz, Robert Lee ( 14 July 2016 ). `` If You Ca n't Follow Directions, You 'll End Up on Null Island ''. Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016. Jump up ^ St. Onge, Tim. `` The Geographical Oddity of Null Island ''. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016. Jump up ^ `` Null Island is One of the Most Visited Places on Earth. Too Bad It Does n't Exist ''. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017. Jump up ^ Aric, Toler ( 29 January 2018 ). `` How to Use and Interpret Data from Strava 's Activity Map - bellingcat ''. Bellingcat. Retrieved 2 February 2018. Jump up ^ `` Station 13010 - Soul ''. National Data Buoy Center. Archived from the original on 22 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014. Jump up ^ `` Bathymetric Data Viewer ''. National Geophysical Data Center ( NGDC ). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017. External links Satirical website purporting to be that of The Republic of Null Island This fictional location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Null_Island&oldid=831283751 '' Categories : Extreme points of Earth Fictional islands Internet memes Fictional location stubs Hidden categories : Coordinates on Wikidata Articles using infobox islands with additional info All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Français Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Bahasa Melayu 日本 語 Русский Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 19 March 2018, at 20 : 00. About Wikipedia

Question: where do the equator and the prime meridian meet
Answer: in the Gulf of Guinea