Paris Meridian - Paris, France
N 48° 51.475 E 002° 20.192
31U E 451334 N 5411873
One of the 135 Arago markers set in Paris to honor François Arago and the Paris Meridian.
Waymark Code: WMDMPE
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 02/01/2012
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The Paris Meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France—now longitude 2°20'14.025? east. It was a long-standing rival to Greenwich as the prime meridian of the world, as was the Meridian of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium.
In 1994 the Arago Association and the city of Paris commissioned a Dutch conceptual artist, Jan Dibbets, to create a memorial to Arago. Dibbets came up with the idea of setting 135 bronze medallions (although only 121 are documented in the official guide to the medallions) into the ground along the Paris Meridian between the northern and southern limits of Paris: a total distance of 9.2 kilometres/5.7 miles. Each medallion is 12 cm in diameter and marked with the name ARAGO plus N and S pointers.
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