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What are important lines of longtitude(name them)?

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well what i know is 0 is greenwich meridian and 180 is prime meridian. Is this right and am i missing anything important out?

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  1. Those two are the only two that have names as well as numbers     Prime Meridian 0 degrees      

                        International date line 180 degrees

                      

    (you have 180 incorrectly named!)


  2. Time zones generally are every 15 degrees longitude.

  3. all i know is the prime meridian and the IDL

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    Unlike latitude, which has the equator as a natural starting position, there is no natural starting position for longitude. Therefore, a reference meridian had to be chosen. While British cartographers had long used the Greenwich meridian in London, other references were used elsewhere, including: El Hierro, Rome, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Saint Petersburg, Pisa, Paris, Philadelphia, and Washington. In 1884, the International Meridian Conference adopted the Greenwich meridian as the universal prime meridian or zero point of longitude.

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