I’ve been asked to deliver this parcel to my cousin but he lives on an island and doesn’t have an address to send things to, like you or me. It’s not a problem though, because I know a good way to ...

To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, ...

One of the most unusual cartographic hobbies of the modern GPS era is run by the Degree Confluence Project. These modern-day Magellans want to visit every place in the world where a line of latitude ...

Right now, you’re within 49 miles of a confluence, an arbitrary point on Earth where an imaginary line of latitude intersects with an imaginary line of longitude. And if you hop over there and take a ...

Once called the Prime Meridian of the World, the invisible line running north to south that divides the world into Eastern and Western hemispheres passed through the Airy Transit Circle — a ...