Null Island

English Proper noun Null Island en colloquial humorous computing cartography The location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E). en 17 May 2011 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails@gmail.com OSM fork Re: Alternate wiki to document tags https://groups.google.com/g/osm-fork/c/gvT76yknQ3w/m/-iqN2icGCDQJ http://archive.today/2026.02.09-225544/https://groups.google.com/g/osm-fork/c/gvT76yknQ3w/m/-iqN2icGCDQJ 9 February 2026 Google Groups Yup, that's why it's 'steer in that direction' .. maybe towards Null Island? :) en 14 July 2016 Robert Lee Hotz If You Get Directions Wrong, You'll Be Banished to Null Island Wall Street Journal 2574-9579 A1 Proquest https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/if-you-get-directions-wrong-youll-be-banished/docview/1803693814/se-2 About seven years ago, Mr. [Nathaniel Vaughn] Kelso, who had heard the phrase used by other cartographers, encoded Null Island as the default destination for mistakes into a widely used public-domain digital-mapping data set called Natural Earth, which has been downloaded several million times. en November 2024 Edna Correia; José Pedro Granadeiro; Ngoné Diop; Francisco Wambar; Alfonso Hernandez‑Rios; Teresa Catry High variability in the migratory behaviour of a tropical seabird 10.1007/s00227-024-04538-8 Marine Biology 0025-3162 171 11 212 Springer All GPS coordinates were transformed using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection, centered at the Null Island (0ºN, 0ºE), and all positions were then interpolated at 30 min intervals, to facilitate the calculation of distances travelled. Usage notes The location 0°N 0°E is in the Gulf of Guinea southwest of Africa, i.e. in the ocean; there is no physical island at this location.