a fictional place referred to when a computer confuses "null" with "0" and sets your coordinates to 0, 0.
null island is the place you go when you use a bad app that doesn't know how to differentiate "missing information" and "0"
by KirbyCreep June 29, 2020
Located at zero longitude and zero latitude (or at 0 degrees north and 0 degrees east) in the South Atlantic Ocean—where the prime meridian meets the equator—where it would be if it actually existed.
Null Island is a mélange of real and imaginary geography, of mathematical certainty, and pure fantasy.
by Numerati September 29, 2024