The construction of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich was started in 1675 and finished a year later. In 1884 an international conference decided that the modern Prime Meridian passes through the observatory, defining zero degrees longitude. The observatory is located on a hill in Greenwich Park with a great panorama of the River Thames and large parts of London.
Photo taken in January 2011
Participants: skp and kom
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- Corn Du Mountain, Wales
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- Westminster Abbey, London
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