The Tenerife meridian was the prime meridian of choice for Dutch cartographers and navigators from the 1640s until the beginning of the 19th century.[1] It lies at 16° 38′ 22″ W of the current international prime meridian, the IERS Reference Meridian through Greenwich.
^The History of La Palma, website "Isaac Newton Group" (observatory), retrieved 2 February 2015.
The Tenerifemeridian was the prime meridian of choice for Dutch cartographers and navigators from the 1640s until the beginning of the 19th century. It...
0° A prime meridian is an arbitrarily-chosen meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. Together...
Tenerife (/ˌtɛnəˈriːf/ TEN-ə-REEF; Spanish: [teneˈɾife]; formerly spelled Teneriffe) is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It...
Candelaria – Tenerife Hospital Universitario de Canarias – Tenerife Hospital del Sur de Tenerife – Tenerife Hospital del Norte de Tenerife – Tenerife Hospital...
El Hierro, nicknamed Isla del Meridiano (the "Meridian Island"), is the second-smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands (an autonomous...
massif on Tenerife. In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands. It was as a result of his visit to Tenerife, where he visited...
operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, based on nearby Tenerife. ORM is part of the European Northern Observatory. The seeing statistics...
headquartered in Addis Ababa. Africa straddles the equator and the prime meridian. It is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to the...
The four batteries of 12 guns were distributed between Gran Canaria and Tenerife. German reinforcements continued until the summer of 1942 but had not solved...
16th meridian west forms a great circle with the 164th meridian east. Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 16th meridian west...
minutes north (and longitude 12 time minutes east of the Swedish time meridian, which is 15 degrees East) "City Governance". Stockholm City. Archived...
17th meridian west forms a great circle with the 163rd meridian east. Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 17th meridian west...
municipality on the island of El Hierro (nicknamed Isla del Meridiano, the "Meridian Island"), Canary Islands. It was created in 2007. At the western end of...
called Trinity, the song is named "Black Widow" He also produced Tenerife based band Meridian Zero's first album "Doors of Creation" and Esclavitud's album...
September 26, 2003 Auditorio de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1,616 1996 Centro Internacional de Ferias y Congresos de Tenerife 15,000 1941 Iradier Arena...
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10 hours, 22 minutes during the winter solstice. Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 28° north passes through: Twenty Eighth...
is located at 13°10' north of the equator, and 59°32' west of the Prime Meridian. As the easternmost isle of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, Barbados...
by 95–98% and bouba for the rounded one. Individuals on the island of Tenerife showed a similar preference between shapes called takete and maluma. Even...
crashed after striking a tractor on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, during a go-around in foggy weather; 30 of 49 passengers and crew die...
promoted Xerez. After missing the mid-week match against Villarreal, against Tenerife at the weekend, Benzema scored his first double for Madrid in a 3–0 home...
the archipelago. A meridian memorial close to the lighthouse, is a reminder that historically it was considered to be a prime meridian for early map makers...
and Sirius are both visible high in the sky simultaneously, and reach a meridian just 21 min apart. Brighter than first magnitude, Canopus can be seen by...