10. Greenwich

Greenwich is a famous district in the eastern part of London. Tourists either take a Thames boat ride there or go by the Dockland's Light Railway. Greenwich is famous for British naval history.

The National Maritime Museum shows exhibits from a time when Britain was the world's biggest sea power.

The Royal Observatory has a planetarium and a museum with a display of astronomical and navigational instruments. The prime meridian of the world goes through the observatory. It divides the world into an eastern and western hemisphere .

Greenwich and the National Maritime Museum
Image: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0,
via Wikimedia Commons


Words

  • astronomical = about the sky and planets
  • display = exhibition ; something that is shown in public
  • district = part of a city
  • divide = split into two parts
  • exhibit = an object that is shown in a public place, so that people can go and see it
  • hemisphere = half of the Earth
  • naval = marine; everything that has to do with the navy
  • planetarium = building with a curved roof; lights and special effects show how stars and planets move
  • prime meridian = a line from the North to the South Pole that divides the Earth into an eastern and a western half; the Earth's time zones also start from here