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Null Island

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The name 'Null Island' serves as both a joke based around the suppositional existence of an island there, and also as a name to which coordinates erroneously set to 0,0 are assigned in placenames databases in order to more easily find and fix them.

Didn’t knew geographers were such funny guys, but it’s a nice one!

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