1. Australia — 2021-08-08 18:36:08

   …n aboard. Accompanying Cook were Joseph Banks, the botanist, Daniel Solander, a naturalist, and Charles Green, from the Greenwich Observatory. Cook sighted New Zealand on 6 October 1769, and landed at Poverty Bay two days later. He drew detailed an…

2. Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21

   … In 1675 **King Charles II** appointed **John Flamsteed** as the first Astronomer Royal of the new Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The [[British_Empire| Empire]] needed a method for navigators to find their position at sea. Flamsteed and others u…
   …Flamsteed had installed state-of-the-art pendulum clocks by the best clockmaker and set these clocks to the local time, Greenwich Mean Time. Flamsteed’s catalogue of stars become the standard reference work for plotting star positions based on Gre…
   …rime Meridian Roof Open" width="" }} == GMT == All clocks around the world are determined by the longitude offset from Greenwich Mean Time. Because the earths crust is always moving so will the imaginary prime meridian so it cannot be a truly fi…

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