"Null Island" meaning in English

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          "text": "Yup, that's why it's 'steer in that direction' .. maybe towards Null Island? :)",
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          "text": "About seven years ago, Mr. [Nathaniel Vaughn] Kelso, who had heard the phrase used by other cartographers, encoded Null Island as the default destination for mistakes into a widely used public-domain digital-mapping data set called Natural Earth, which has been downloaded several million times.",
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          "text": "All GPS coordinates were transformed using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection, centered at the Null Island (0ºN, 0ºE), and all positions were then interpolated at 30 min intervals, to facilitate the calculation of distances travelled.",
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