The picture below shows an imaginary line on the globe which crosses the Pacific Ocean and works as a rough separator of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

What is this line called in English? I'm trying to find the history behind its funny shape.



It's the international date line and marks the boundary between the time zones that are +12 and -12 hours from UTC / Greenwich. It should follow the +/-180 degree meridian line, but zigs and zags to include territories or islands within a "day" thus the Aleutians islands are in the same time zone as the Hawaiian islands. 