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Meridian
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| Ferro (El Hierro), Canary Islands | Various European Navigators | 17th Century | Associated with the perceived center of the Western Sea's inertial frame |
The current international standard, established at the International Meridian Conference in 1884, uses the transit instrument at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. However, subsequent high-precision geodetic work …