Null Island

Today Mary and I joined the rare “Order of the Emerald Shellback”. Our ship sailed over the point where the Equator intersects the Prime Meridian. Zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude. (0°N 0°E) The last photo is a screen shot of the actual coordinates. (top right corner) This is in a very remote area of the Atlantic Ocean, 370 miles off the coast of West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Our Captain has been at sea for 23 years and had never been to this remote spot. He went way off course to allow us to receive the rare title of Emerald Shellback. A weather buoy named Soul Buoy has been moored at the point since 1997. It has recently gone missing and we had great fun unsuccessfully looking for it. The point has been named Null Island in public domain database since 2010. While there is no physical Null Island in this location, many individuals have made maps and even a flag to commemorate the fictitious island. Great fun and just one more reason for a big party on the pool deck! Maybe an Emerald Shellback tattoo is in order.Leia mais