Talk:Null Island

Zero Zero Island

Shades of Colonel Bleep's Zero Zero Island! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.182.186.78 (talk) 15:01, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Google earth errors

@Themultijetmax: Thanks for the contribution, but for this kind of material we'd need to be able to cite where it came from. Do you recall where you read this information? Thanks! Lesser Cartographies (talk) 00:34, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

@Sundays evening: We really do need a citation to restore the above edit. Are you aware of any? Lesser Cartographies (talk) 07:55, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Additional sources

http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-cant-follow-directions-youll-end-up-on-null-island-1468422251

Bogus property data

I've removed the infobox property data for area, perimeter, etc., as it is bogus opinions from one source. I don't think this is helpful, since another source could presumably reference contradictory bogus properties. The only valid property should just be the coordinate info. +mt 04:21, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

PIRATA weather charts

Not sure where in the article it should be linked, but https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/drupal/pirata-display/0n0e.html Arlo James Barnes 23:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Flag?

What flag? {} on a white field? kencf0618 (talk) 14:48, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

No matter, I've found it. https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=5981946e172a406485c7bb847cef3168&webmap=642091165f434bd8bbf7007976975e82

Potwin, Kansas

From the Potwin, Kansas page:

"In an unusual technical glitch, a farmstead about 4 miles northeast of Potwin became the default site of 600 million IP addresses (due to their lack of fine granularity) when the Massachusetts-based digital mapping company MaxMind changed the putative geographic center of the contiguous United States from 39.8333333,-98.585522 to 38.0000,-97.0000."

This is clearly similar enough to justify a See Also entry. Please read WP:BRD and WP:TALKDONTREVERT for Wikipedia's policy on this. --Guy Macon (talk) 07:03, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Buoy

Moored with 5km depth - is that right? --Itu (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes. It it moored to the seabed, which has a depth at this place around 4,940 meters (16,210 ft). I believe (but cannot find a source) that this is a single-cable mooring, which means that it is almost never at exactly 0/0. (Three-cable moorings are used when a buoy location has to be more exact) There is a five nautical mile exclusion zone around the buoy to make sure that passing ships don't run it over. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:44, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Do you have any more information about the exclusion zone? That's five nautical miles in radius, I assume? Would that typically be marked on nautical charts? Does every buoy have the same exclusion zone? The only reference I can find is this one which doesn't seem to be an official source. Almccon (talk) 23:12, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

We blew our chance

Related: SS Warrimoo#See International Date Line claim

We blew our chance to do the same at Null Island on the first day of the new millennium. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:53, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose to merge the Soul Buoy article into the Null Island article, leaving a redirect. Soul Buoy is moored at the Null Island location, and there is insufficient content on the buoy to merit an article. Comments please. Verbcatcher (talk) 23:11, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

I agree. Rublov (talk) 18:11, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Agreed. The buoy article is short enough to be a subsection of Null Island. hjk321 (talk) 03:58, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

That seems logical to me, I agree. CT55555 (talk) 21:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done ―Jochem van Hees (talk) 10:51, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Proposed World Peace Fountain

There is a proposal for a World Peace Fountain to be located at Null Island. Regardless of opinion, what form a non-government proposal not directed to a government should take regardless if government becomes involved in the proposal is not important. A few comments on Twitter to get started is all that is required and we hope that all will be able to support this proposal. Suggested Edits

Why the World Peace Fountain?

Although there are many monuments to the hope of World Peace it seems a worthy statement to have a monument that is not under a single government control in a single country, and the location of Null Island seems to be enough to say that World Peace is ruling, and that all lands participate peacefully in global affairs. It is the type of statement that all people can look upon to acknowledge hope.

KING (talk) 04:30, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

References

This sort of advocacy and speculation has no place on Wikipedia. We summarize what is reported by reliable sources. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:45, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Again another Wikipedia user touting that there is speculation? Do you even know the meaning of the word? A proposal exists, there is not speculation of a proposal. - KING (talk) 05:22, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

As long as this kind of "speculation", if it is one, is limited to a talk page, I see no problem, though I wouldn't advise setting up a "monument" in the middle of ocean water, and in addition at some point already occupied by a buoy. Unless that "monument" is to be the buoy itself, I'd suggest to set it on some continent, let's say somewhere on Antarctica, where all nations' sovereignty claims have been put to rest (I mean, AFAIK, various sovereign nations keep their respective claims, some of which overlap, but since 1959 it has been decided not to take any aggressive action about these overlaps; and there even remains a part of the continent which isn't claimed by any nation). — Tonymec (talk) 11:52, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

There is a proposal, but it appears that it was made by some bloke on Twitter. If it was made by a United Nations agency then we should mention it. If there was a Wikipedia article about the proposer then we might mention it, but otherwise not. Verbcatcher (talk) 14:37, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Nearest land

The article says the nearest land from this point in the ocean is an islet between Akwidaa and Dixcove. Does the islet have a name? Glades12 (talk) 09:01, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

I can't find a name for the islet on online maps. However, the Cape Three Points article says that it is the nearest land, citing a source. We indicate Achowa Point, which is a few km to the east of Cape Three Points. Neither our source nor the source in Cape Three Points look ideal. We could calculate the distances using a great circle calculation. Verbcatcher (talk) 11:25, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

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ANKER`S POINT

Hi! Someone wrote to Danish Wikipedia (Ticket#2023101710008247) claiming the point was now formally named "ANKER`S POINT" per The IHO (International Hydrographic Organization) Secretariat / The United Nation of Experts on Geographical Names. See http://ankerspoint.dk/ for further info. I have no idea how this works so I hope someone know more about the topic than I do. --MGA73 (talk) 19:12, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Very amusing. It seems odd that none of the characters in that long, possibly fictional story did a web search for "name of point at 0 longitude 0 latitude" and found via the first dozen search results that the point did, in fact, have a name. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:15, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jonesey95! But just because something is called something does not mean that it has an official name? If you look at https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/latitude.html for example there is no "Null Island" mentioned. And https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-null-island call it for a "colloquial name" and not an "official name". Are there any official databases to look up names in? --MGA73 (talk) 20:03, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

We report what reliable sources say. There are many reliable sources cited in this article, and more if you do a quick web search. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:12, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

I agree. As I said I do not know much about the topic so I do not know which sources are reliable in this case. --MGA73 (talk) 11:47, 21 January 2024 (UTC)