A few hundred miles off the coast of Ghana is Null Island—the point of zero longitude and zero latitude. It’s not a real island in the physical sense, but data, photos, and whole people have been ...

A Phantom Island Born From Mapping Errors Null Island does not exist in the physical world, although it appears frequently in digital mapping datasets worldwide. It originated as an inside joke among ...

This lonely way station in the Gulf of Guinea is, according to its website, a thriving republic with a population of 4000, a roaring economy, a tourism bureau, a unique native language and the world’s ...

This lonely way station in the Gulf of Guinea is, according to its website, a thriving republic with a population of 4,000, a roaring economy, a tourism bureau, a unique native language and the ...

The intersection of the Equator and the Prime Meridian lands somewhere west of the coast of Africa, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. These are coordinates (0,0) in map coordinates system WGS84, ...

Every day, countless people seeking digital directions on their computers and smartphones are diverted to an isolated spot on the Atlantic Ocean, 1,000 miles or so off the coast of Africa, where the ...

Just off the western coast of Africa is where you'll find Null Island, or at least the place where it should theoretically be. At the precise location, you'll find little more than open water, but ...

Regarding the amusing article “If You Get Directions Wrong, You’ll Be Banished to Null Island” (page one, July 14): This was known in the late 1950s as Zero Zero Island, where the cartoon character ...