<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Geography </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Coordinates </Th> <Td> 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / 0; 0Coordinates: 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / 0; 0 </Td> </Tr> <P> Null Island is a name for the area around the point where the prime meridian and the equator cross; in the WGS84 datum, this is at zero degrees latitude and longitude (0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 0 ° N 0 ° E ﻿ / 0; 0 .) (the location is in the Gulf of Guinea off the west African coast). The name' Null Island' serves as both a joke based around the suppositional existence of an island there (in reality, only a buoy (pictured) exists there), and also as a name to which coordinates erroneously set to 0, 0 are assigned in placenames databases in order to more easily find and fix them . The nearest land is Annobón island, at 1 ° 25 ′ S 5 ° 38 ′ E ﻿ / ﻿ 1.417 ° S 5.633 ° E ﻿ / - 1.417; 5.633 . </P> <P> In the latter capacity it was added to the Natural Earth public domain map dataset circa 2010 - 2011, after which the term came into wide use (although there is evidence of it being used previously); since then, the' island' has through fiction been given a geography (based on the setting of the video game Myst), history, and flag . Natural Earth describes the entity as a "1 meter square island" with "scale rank 100, indicating it should never be shown in mapping ." The name' Null' refers to the two 0 co-ordinates, both of which are sometimes known as null in mathematics . </P>

Where does the prime meridian intersect the equator