Longitude Meridians - [extra Quality]

Leo stared at her new Prime Meridian—the one she was drawing now for the King’s own atlas. “So a meridian is just a story we agree to follow?”

Longitude meridians are a series of lines that converge at the poles and are spaced at regular intervals of one degree apart. These lines are not parallel to each other, and their distance from each other decreases as you move from the equator towards the poles. The meridians are used to measure the distance east or west of a point from a reference meridian, which is the Prime Meridian. longitude meridians

The old cartographer, Elara, had spent forty years tracing lines that no one else could see. Her workshop smelled of vellum and dust, and the walls were papered with maps of the world. But her masterpiece was different. It was a single, slender line of ink that ran from the North Pole to the South—the Prime Meridian. Leo stared at her new Prime Meridian—the one

The International Date Line (roughly), located on the opposite side of the globe. The meridians are used to measure the distance

The next morning, the captain saw the ink line on the chart. “That’s not on any admiralty map,” he snarled.