
Brainvista Quiz-Question-1
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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