On 13 August 2014, at the Greenwich Meridian, I was stepping simultaneously on the Eastern and the Western hemispheres.
This Zero Degree Longitude across the globe based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England was established by Sir George Airy in 1851. However, it was only in 1884 in the International Meridian Conference held in Washington that the Greenwich Meridian was declared as the prime meridian of the world after 22 countries agreed to adopt it.
This imaginary line besides passing through UK also passes through 7 other countries namely France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo and Ghana.
Kota Kinabalu at approx. Longitude E 116.0782 degrees should in theory be 7 hours and 45 minutes ahead of London's time. However, for uniformity, Malaysia has fixed its time 7 hours ahead of London's time.
It costs 7 pounds to stand on this line within the fenced compound.
However, visitors can also choose to have photo taken free of charge next to a vertical line outside the fenced compound. We did both.
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