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Latitude Zero

"Latitude zero" is another name for the equator.

How It's Used

"Its 60 named islands and scores of anonymous skerries straddle the Equator 600 miles west of Ecuador. The climate, at latitude zero, is warm enough for tropic-birds. Yet the Galapagos waters are cooled by the Humboldt Current, so that antarctic species like penguins and seals are also in residence."

"'It's perfectly normal,' he said over sandwiches in London, en route to his start line in Murmansk, Russia. The 'normality' in question was his last escapade, an 18-month circumnavigation of the world at Latitude Zero, round the equator, which involved him crossing three oceans (having never sailed before in his life and in a trimaran built purely for regattas), the Amazonian jungle (where he was bitten by a snake and went blind for three days), Indonesia during a war and Africa (where he was threatened by a death squad in Congo). His modes of transport were, variously: feet, canoe and bicycle. Oh, and he didn't take any food with him."

"Ghana is a unique country. It is the centre of the world: longitude zero, latitude zero. It is therefore not surprising that all eyes are on us as a country and every attention of the world is geared towards us. We must be example for other nations to emulate. Even if all things would fall apart in other countries insofar as elections are concerned, as for the center (GHANA), IT MUST HOLD."

Also Known As (AKA)

Equator

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