Null Island
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| Geography | |
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| Length | 1 m (3 ft) |
| Width | 1 m (3 ft) |
| Coastline | 4 m (13 ft) |
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| Additional information | |
| Official website | www |
| This fictional island is a cartographical convenience only. | |
Null Island is a fictional island in the Gulf of Guinea added to the Natural Earth public domain map dataset,[1] located where the equator crosses the prime meridian, at coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..[2][3] Natural Earth describes the entity as a "1 meter square island" with "scale rank 100, indicating it should never be shown in mapping."[1] Although intended humorously, the fiction has a serious purpose and is used by mapping systems to trap errors.[3] Null Island was developed as an idea in 2011 or slightly earlier, since then numerous web pages have documented this fictional landmass' flag, geography, and history.[4]
In reality, a weather observation buoy, part of the PIRATA system, is moored at the supposed location of the island.[5]
References
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See also
Colonel Bleep, a 1957 cartoon that took place at on the fictitious Zero Zero Island, at the same location as Null Island, where Earth's equator meets the Greenwich Meridian.
External links
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