Brainvista Quiz-Question-1

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Siddharth Singh

13 Dec 20251 min read

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Q1: Which continent’s land crosses both Earth’s zero lines—latitude and longitude—so that parts of it lie in all four hemispheres at once?​

  • Hint: Picture a globe where the Equator slices a continent horizontally while the Prime Meridian cuts it vertically, leaving land in the north, south, east, and west hemispheres simultaneously without any island trickery.​
    This phenomenon hinges on the Prime Meridian’s route down from the Arctic through the Atlantic toward the south, intersecting a continent that the Equator also bisects near its middle.​
    Many of you overlook this cartographic quirk because classroom maps often center different meridians, hiding how the zero-longitude line actually grazes the northwest of this continent.​
    Advanced map-reading exercises use this case to teach how reference lines create hemispheric quadrants and why continental outlines and coordinate grids can produce surprising overlaps.​

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Brainvista Quiz-Question-1

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Siddharth Singh

13 Dec 20251 min read

Published in latest

Q1: Which continent’s land crosses both Earth’s zero lines—latitude and longitude—so that parts of it lie in all four hemispheres at once?​

  • Hint: Picture a globe where the Equator slices a continent horizontally while the Prime Meridian cuts it vertically, leaving land in the north, south, east, and west hemispheres simultaneously without any island trickery.​
    This phenomenon hinges on the Prime Meridian’s route down from the Arctic through the Atlantic toward the south, intersecting a continent that the Equator also bisects near its middle.​
    Many of you overlook this cartographic quirk because classroom maps often center different meridians, hiding how the zero-longitude line actually grazes the northwest of this continent.​
    Advanced map-reading exercises use this case to teach how reference lines create hemispheric quadrants and why continental outlines and coordinate grids can produce surprising overlaps.​

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