Null Island | The very important nonexistent island. Discover it!

On our planet there are impressive places to visit and others that do not seem to have the slightest interest.In Mysterious we have approached 7 super curious places on the planet and also as incredible places as the Nemo Point, the most inaccessible place in La Earth.In this occasion, we bring you a very important place that does not really exist , it is Null Island or Nula Island .If you had not heard of it or want to know more, Join us to discover it!

Null Island, the very important nonexistent island

If you wanted to visit it, you wouldn't find it because, in fact, does not exist .If you approached its coordinates, you would only see the immensity of the ocean, the sky...and something else, a small lonely meteorological buoy that rocks with the flow of the waves.That marks the buoy, it should be Null Island.As a place, it does not exist, but is real for those people who are related to geographic information systems .Experts say that if you look at geospatial digital data , Null Island is one of the most visited places on our planet .You may have guessed it: Null Island is the point where the Earth's equator is popularly crossed by the zero meridian known as Greenwich Meridian, at the coordinates 0ºN 0ºE .

1.Where is Null Island

Null Island | The very important nonexistent island. Discover it!

Physically, Null Island is located in the Gulf of Guinea , in the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa, facing Ghana.

The name received it because its two coordinates are 0 and in mathematics this number is known as "Nul", "Null".It means or is related to having zero members in a set or having a value of zero.

2.Who devised Null Island

Like Wikipedia, there is a portal called Natural Earth that is «a set of maps in the public domain that have been developed by voluntary cartographers and analysts of geographic information systems (GIS).”In 2011, to help geocoding, this group decided to assign Null the name 0ºN 0ºE Island, which had already been used on some occasion before, and identify it as a land space of one square meter. It should serve to detect errors in the geo coding .

3.Why Null Island is important

Null Island | The very important nonexistent island. Discover it!

Its purpose is to identify the errors that are made in the design of the maps .When entering coordinates it is very easy to make mistakes.If what is coded does not exist, the system translates it as 0 0 and sends directly to Null Island , to the coordinates 0ºN 0ºE.There are many visits that it receives due to these errors and its existence serves to detect and correct them.

The GIS or Geographic Information Systems are vital for both researchers and people in general.A GIS stores, manipulates and analyzes all types of geographic data and then displays them on a map.Its practical utility is immense.Not only they serve to study deep topics such as climate change, but we use them to find any direction we need through GPS.One of the functions within a GIS is the «Geocoding» that transforms addresses into coordinates to be able to to locate them in a specific place of a map.The errors in the introduction of data are those that lead to those coordinates 0 0 and to name that place that does not exist the name of Nul Island was created.If the address you are looking for appears in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, you are on Nula Island and in the process of entering data an error has occurred.

4.Curiosities of Null Island

Null Island | The very important nonexistent island. Discover it!

Among the curiosities of Null Island is the fact that the cartographers have created a curious fiction around them. They assigned him a flag, they attributed a story and even created an internet domain , now canceled, for the Republic of this non-existent island.
What you will find on Null Island is a weather observation buoy marked as Station 13010 also called «Alma» .This buoy is permanently anchored at 0ºN 0ºE and collects data on wind speed and direction, ambient and water temperature and other variables.It is part of a program called "Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic" (PIRATA)
Where the Earth's equator intersects the Greenwich meridian, the depth is about 4,940 meters.

If you were interested to know what Null Island is and its importance, do not miss…

Exist in many mysterious and interesting islands on our planet in addition to the non-existent Null Island. If you want to know some of them, let us propose some entries that you might like: Niʻihau, the Forbidden Island of Hawaii | What's in it? Discover it! You may also find it interesting The History of the Island of Munecas and its disturbing origin or Hunga Tonga, the "baby" island that will only last a few years.

We hope you have been interested in knowing Null Island and its importance .Have you heard it mentioned? Did you know there was such a place? Do you know others with similar characteristics? Share them with us! We will be happy to read you, but if what you like are the real islands, we recommend that you know these 5 Islands of Thailand or these 4 Wonderful Greek Islands.

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