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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Sep 20, 2018 · Because there are scores of badly written software using map data, an unbelievably large number of addresses get mapped to this fictional place called “Null Island” out in the Atlantic. The term was coined in 2011 by authors of Natural Earth, a public domain map dataset, describing it as “a one meter square island”.
May 4, 2022 · The location of “Null Island” — a place that doesn’t exist outside of databases. In a new paper, researchers refer to it as “the most real of fictional places.”
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.
Apr 10, 2022 · Suddenly, maps were drawn of Null Island, flags designed, fake backstories conjured up. Squint, and you can almost see the island now. A small, tropical purgatory, far away from anywhere that matters, home to uncountable damaged and incomplete data points, stranded until they are fixed or erased.
