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==Location== | ==Location== | ||
Located in the Bering Strait, 168.75° West of the IERS Reference Meridian (IRM). That is | Located in the Bering Strait, 168.75° West of the [[IERS Reference Meridian]] (IRM). That is | ||
* West of the IRM | * West of the IRM | ||
** 675 min | ** 675 min | ||
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** 45 min | ** 45 min | ||
** 0.03125 days | ** 0.03125 days | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17759/17759-h/17759-h.htm | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17759/17759-h/17759-h.htm | ||
Revision as of 2014-03-29T12:16:30
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-antipodal line
- 11.25°
- 45 min
- 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.
