Null Island, the belly button of the Earth

We all dream about an island that doesn't exist. It makes us think of travelling and adventure.
With this watercolor handmade painting by Lucia... more

by Lucia Waterson

Original - Not For Sale

Price

Not Specified

Dimensions

29.000 x 21.000 cm.

Title

Null Island, the belly button of the Earth

Artist

Lucia Waterson

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

We all dream about an island that doesn't exist. It makes us think of travelling and adventure.
With this watercolor handmade painting by Lucia Waterson called Null island, the belly button of the Earth, you can take a journey to the "center" of the Earth, Earth's zero point, where the Equator meets the Prime Meridian.
Infact, the Navel of the World or Earth usually refers to the axis mundi or world axis, the supposed centre of the world.

Null Island is an imaginary, fictional island that doesn't exist, but it's located at 0°N 0°E (hence “Null”) in international waters of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Golf of Guinea. It's the geocoded point added to the Natural Earth map to indicate the latitude/longitude location of (0,0).

The Prime Meridian, which runs through Greenwich, England, has a longitude of 0 degrees and it divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
The equator is the most well known parallel and at 0 degrees latitude, it equally divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. And this is where they intersect and the white and red buoy marks this famous landmark.

They named the Soul buoy after the soul music genre, it is permanently moored at the location, and the nearest land to Null Island is part of Ghana, Africa.

The depth of the seabed beneath the Soul buoy, which disappeared after 1 year, and then was replaced later on, is around 4,940 metres (16,210 feet).

As you can see, this weather monitoring station has a conical shape, above the sea it's about 4 metres high. It is anchored by a cable to the seabed and it measures wind speed and direction, air temperature, precipitation, humidity, solar radiation, pressure, temperature and conductivity up to 500 m below the ocean surface.

A painting to dream and to escape, to relax and to enjoy.

Uploaded

February 9th, 2024