These are coordinates (0,0) in map coordinates system WGS84, the most commonly used system in web mapping. Physically speaking there is nothing there — apart from station 13010, a lone buoy ...

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“People talk about it as a mythological place — being banished to Null Island,” said cartographer Tim St. Onge at the US Library of Congress, which houses eight million maps in its collection.

“People talk about it as a mythological place — being banished to Null Island,” said cartographer Tim St. Onge at the US Library of Congress, which houses eight million maps in its collection.

Just off the western coast of Africa is where you'll find Null Island, or at least the place where it should theoretically be. At the precise location, you'll find little more than open water ...