page_title: Null Island
hierarchical_section_title: Null Island
caption_attribution_description: English: National Data Buoy Centre weather buoy Station 13010 - Soul, at 0 deg latitude, 0 deg longitude. Maintained by the PIRATA (Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic) project.
context_page_description: Null Island is a name for the point on the Earth's surface where the prime meridian and the equator cross, located in international waters in the Gulf of Guinea off the west African coast. In the WGS84 datum, this is at zero degrees latitude and longitude, and is the location of a buoy. The name 'Null Island' serves as both a joke based around the suppositional existence of an island there and as a name to which coordinates erroneously set to 0,0 are assigned in placenames databases in order to more easily find and fix them. The nearest land is a small islet offshore of Ghana, between Akwidaa and Dixcove at 4°45′30″N 1°58′33″W, 307.8 nmi to the north. The seabed depth at this place is around 4,940 metres.
context_section_description: Null Island is a name for the point on the Earth's surface where the prime meridian and the equator cross, located in international waters in the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean) off the west African coast. In the WGS84 datum, this is at zero degrees latitude and longitude (0°N 0°E), and is the location of a buoy. The name 'Null Island' serves as both a joke based around the suppositional existence of an island there and as a name to which coordinates erroneously set to 0,0 are assigned in placenames databases in order to more easily find and fix them. The nearest land is a small islet offshore of Ghana, between Akwidaa and Dixcove at 4°45′30″N 1°58′33″W, 307.8 nmi (354.2 mi; 570.0 km) to the north. The seabed depth at this place is around 4,940 metres (16,210 ft).
caption: The weather buoy moored at the coordinates of Null Island, in the Gulf of Guinea at 0°N 0°E.
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