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The point on the Earth's surface defined as Null Island is located in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 600 kilometres (370 mi) off the coast of West Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea. A weather buoy, named the Soul buoy after the soul music genre, is permanently moored at the location.
May 9, 2016 · Null Island is a curious blend of real and imaginary geography, of mathematical certainty and pure fantasy. Or it’s just the site of a weather observation buoy.
Mar 25, 2022 · This location, in the Gulf of Guinea, is where non-geocoded data goes to die. Recently renamed “Null Island,” it has also captured the imagination — and acquired a map and several flags ...
Apr 22, 2016 · Null Island is an imaginary island located at 0°N 0°E (hence “Null”) in the South Atlantic Ocean. This point is where the Equator meets the Prime Meridian.
Aug 12, 2023 · What is Null Island? “Null Island” is a bit of an ongoing inside joke in the world of GIS. It’s actually a place that doesn’t exist in the world today. But rather it’s a set of geographical coordinates where the equator (latitude 0°) intersects with the prime meridian (longitude 0°).
Aug 23, 2021 · Despite being more than 300 miles from the nearest land, Null Island isn’t completely desolate. If you were to travel there, you would find a lonely buoy bobbing in the sea.
May 11, 2016 · After years of geocoder errors, Null Island has a bunch of addresses and places labelled to it that do not, in reality, exist there. This means that it is one of the most interesting, most visited places on Earth, despite the fact that it's only a data dump that's been fictionalised by geographers.
4 days ago · The Republic of Null Island is one of the smallest and least-visited nations on Earth. Situated where the Prime Meridian crosses the Equator, Null Island sits 1600 kilometres off the western coast of Africa.
A Brief History of Null Island. The world has only recently become aware of Null Island. "How can this be so?", you may wonder. To understand our centuries of isolation, consider the people who settled here.
Feb 19, 2016 · Hence the invention of Null Island, an imaginary place to flag geocoding failures. It shows up in version 1.3 of Natural Earth, for example, as an island one square metre in size, but coded so that it would never appear in an actual map. Gary Vicchi explains Null Island in more detail.
