The incumbent, the 15th holder of the title, is Martin John Rees, the Baron Rees of Ludlow, a cross-bench peer and former ...

When longitude was first understood sailors measured their position by degrees east or west of their port of departure. Later many countries established their own prime meridians. It was not until the ...

and divide up the Earth a bit like the segments of an orange. The line going through London, called Greenwich Meridian, is the starting point at zero degrees. The other lines show how many degrees ...

A line marks the 'Prime Meridian of the World' at Longitude 0 degrees at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich on March 26, 2012, in London. Oli Scarff/Getty Images The 1884 International Meridian ...

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government is working to replace Greenwich in UK with Ujjain in MP as the Global Prime Meridian (GPM).

The Prime Meridian is the line of the longitude that ... But Paris later reviewed the world time which was later adopted by the British who set Greenwich as Prime Meridian. Mr. Vijayvargiya ...