Null Island (0°0'0"N, 0°0'0"E)

We stop for thirty minutes to, once again, pay our respects to Neptune, and of course explore Null Island. While the ship hovers in place, we overhear explanations offered by fellow passengers.

“It’s the vanishing point.”
“The place where everything is zero.”
“The place that nothing exists.”
“You can see the actual line of the equator.”
“What’s the point of going forward, there’s nothing to see.”

Here we find ourselves simply at the intersection of two arbitrary lines made up by humans, the prime meridian and the equator.Read more