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The grounds contain the Monument to the Equator, which highlights the exact location of the Equator (from which the country takes its name) and commemorates the eighteenth-century Franco-Spanish Geodesic Mission which fixed its approximate location; they also contain the Museo Etnográfico Mitad del Mundo, Ethnographic Museum Middle of the ...
The Equator passes through the middle of town in a west to east direction, as can be deduced from the town's geographical coordinates. [6] The town is a favorite tourist stopping point. Many stop to take photographs of the Equator Monument, eat at the restaurants located there and/or buy African crafts at the nearby crafts shops. [7]
The Equator Monument (Indonesian: Tugu Khatulistiwa) is located on the equator in Pontianak, Indonesia. It marks the division between the northern and southern hemispheres . [ 1 ] The monument was built along the Kapuas River, but then moved to the more strategic current location along the Tanjungpura Road.
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Equator monument in the central square of Calacalí. Calacalí is a rural parish of Quito Canton, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. It is northwest of Casitagua Volcano and southwest of Pululagua Volcano. In the central square of Calacalí there is an equator monument. A similar, larger equator monument is in Ciudad Mitad del Mundo.
The equator marked as it crosses Ilhéu das Rolas, in São Tomé and Príncipe The Marco Zero monument marking the equator in Macapá, Brazil. Locations on the equator experience the shortest sunrises and sunsets because the Sun's daily path is nearly perpendicular to the horizon for most of the year.
There are situations where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out; however, these sites are now uncensored. [3]
The island was mentioned as "Illie de Rolle" in a 1665 map by Johannes Vingboons. [6] and as "I. de Rolle" in a 1780 map by A. Dalrymple.[7]Gago Coutinho (1869–1959), officer of the Portuguese Navy, navigator and historian, headed a geodesic mission to São Tomé between 1915 and 1918, when marks were placed as a basis for a geodetic network in the archipelago.