{"id":44873,"date":"2023-02-09T05:12:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T05:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=44873"},"modified":"2023-02-09T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T05:12:04","slug":"geography-null-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-null-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography: Null Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor mentions Null Island.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe point 0&deg;N, 0&deg;W is in the Atlantic Ocean: specifically, in the Gulf of Guinea, Africa. It&#8217;s around 700 km south of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\nA buoy is at the location; there is no land there. &#8220;Null&#8221; can mean &#8220;nothing,&#8221; so the name &#8220;Null Island&#8221; rather ironically suggests it doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>\nNull Island has gained interest nonetheless; someone has even designated a flag to it.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/lat_long\/africa.html\">mapsofworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/vexillology\/comments\/7hii0i\/flag_for_null_island\/\">reddit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/null-island-is-one-of-the-most-visited-places-on-earth-too-bad-it-doesnt-exist\">atlasobscura.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor mentions Null Island. The point 0&deg;N, 0&deg;W is in the Atlantic Ocean: specifically, in the Gulf of Guinea, Africa. It&#8217;s around 700 km south of Ghana. A buoy is at the location; there is no &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-null-island\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography: Null Island<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44878,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44873\/revisions\/44878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}