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Now space has been corrupted by capitalism, there’s only one place left to escape to: Null Island

Rob Beschizza
Jun 29, 2026
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Null Island. Samuel StPierre / Shutterstock

At 0°N 0°E, where the prime meridian crosses the equator, there is an island. But there is no land there to be found, and the seabed lies nearly 5,000 meters down. Roughly 600 kilometers south of West Africa, Null Island is merely a conceptual landmass, a joke that got out of hand and became a famed cartographi…

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