Articles related to "Greenwich Meridian"

Greenwich is famous all over the world as the home of the Prime Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time. At the Royal Observatory you can stand on the Prime Meridian line.

A simple explanation of the International Date Line and the Greenwich Meridian. Thank or blame Chester A. Arthur for the International Meridian Conference.

By the River Thames in London, Greenwich's major visitor attractions include the Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory and Old Royal Naval College

London has been a busy port since Roman times when goods from the Roman Empire were traded along the River. Today Docklands is full of visitors from around the world.

When seafarers first began the long succession of epic voyages that opened the age of discovery, they knew little of what lay before them.

Lewes, county town of East Sussex and an hour by train from London, is an historic English town with a long tradition of dissent. It even has its own currency.