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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 Lane, for the Palmerston North community, suggests a base or grounding in time, December 2022.

The aerial map is a derivative of the Palmerston North City Council online mapping Geographic Information System (GIS).

Identification

Object type
Map
Content type
Map/Plan
Date
2024
Digitisation ID
2024M_IMCA-DigitalArchive_042888
Format
Born Digital
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

Taxonomy

Community Tags
greenwich lane,

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