Latitude Exhibition_The Van de Veldes Assorted designs

Assorted designs

comes with a presentation box

This Baseball cap is exclusive to Royal Museums Greenwich and is part of our Prime Meridian & GMT collection

Winter surveys in Iceland require some training in terms of wind protection equipment

and Peacock & Mansfield

Latitude Exhibition_The Van de Veldes Assorted designsThree hundred years ago, no one knew the true shape of the world. Author: Nicholas Crane It wasn't a sphere but did it bulge at the equator or was it pointed at the poles? Until we found out no map could ever be truly accurate. So a team of scientists was sent to South America to measure one full degree of latitude. But South America was a land of erupting volcanoes, sodden rainforests, earthquakes, deadly diseases, tropical storms and violent unrest.