
Greenwich Way, Name
- Description
Name: Greenwich
Suburb, Fitzherbert
The name Greenwich acknowledges the importance of the Greenwich meridian which was used for worldwide time keeping and navigation from 1884 to 1974. This geographic reference line (0° longitude) passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London.
Greenwich Way, for the Palmerston North community, suggests a base or grounding in time. December 2022.
The aerial image is a derivative of the Palmerston North City Council online mapping Geographic Information System (GIS).
Identification
- Object type
- Unspecified
- Content type
- Map/Plan
- Date
- 2024
- Digitisation ID
- 2024M_IMCA-DigitalArchive_042888
- Format
- Born Digital
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive