Umnak Meridian

Map

http://anna.info/x/Peters_projection_-_Umnak_meridian_-_hextime.svg

Location

Located in the Bering Strait, 168.75° West of the IERS Reference Meridian (IRM). That is

West of the IRM
- 675 min
- 11h 15 min
- 0.46875 days
East of the IRM-antipode
- 11.25°
- 45 min
- 1/32 days = 0.03125 days

History

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17759/17759-h/17759-h.htm

SESSION OF OCTOBER 6, 1884.

Mr. Janssen, Delegate of France:

"Upon the globe, nature has so sharply separated the continent on which the great American nation has arisen, that there are only two solutions possible from a geographical point of view, both of them very natural.

The first solution would consist in returning, with some small modification, to the solution of the ancients, by placing our meridian near the Azores; the second by throwing it back to that immense expanse of water which separates America from Asia, where on its northern shores the New World abuts on the old."

Also described as a "neutral meridian" at that conference.

Usage

Many common maps of the world have the Chukotka Peninsula to the right hand, using the Bering Strait as right-hand map limit.