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Port of science and discovery
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Captain James Cook

The greatest explorer of his age
Greenwich and the story of time

Find out why Greenwich is the home of Mean Time and the Prime Meridian
The 'Great Eastern' as a cable laying ship

Connecting the world
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Greenwich Meridian Trail
The Prime Meridian divides east and west. Click on the numbers to see the Meridian markers and find out the history behind the Line.

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HM Bark 'Endeavour'
Captain Cook's ship for sailing to the South Seas

HMS 'Beagle'
The ship in which the naturalist, Charles Darwin, sailed around the world

Captain James Cook
Surveyor of Australia and the Pacific

The Thames Barrier
London's flood defence Visit a series of galleries

The transit of Venus
See the first photographs of a transit of Venus, taken by astronomers of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1874

Assistants at the Royal Observatory
The work of the Astronomer Royal would not have been possible without the team of assistants they had working for them.

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