World's Largest Filing Cabinet | Crazy Fountain - The Crown Fountain, Chicago | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 20 | Weird Houses Around the World - 11 | Can You Recognise This # 10 | Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul | Maranjab Caravanserai, Isfahan Province, Iran | Strokes of Nature - White Snake | Swallow's Nest | The Headington Shark - Which Survived Attack | Amazing Sigriya Lion Rock Fortress | Bridge to Nowhere, Atlantic Road, Norway | Amazingly Balanced Rocks -25 Giant Mushroom Rock, Saudi Arabia | Pant-y-Goitre Bridge - A Bridge With Holes | World's Largest Quarried Stones | World's Largest Stone Dome - Global Pagoda, Mumbai | Plane atop 77 Water Street, NYC | Hoba Meteorite - World's Largest Meteorite (in single piece) | From Abandoned House to Doll House - Converting Unsightly to Showpiece | ING House - Another Huge Building on Stilts | Luxor Pyramid, Las Vegas - Largest Pyramid of Modern World | Small Place With Big Name | World's Largest Bas-Relief Sculptures | Maman - The Mother Spider Around the World | Goat Towers Around The World | For the Bibliophiles - Book Shaped Fountains | World's Largest Teapot | World's Biggest Rocking Horse | Lena Pillars - World's Remotest Natural Wonders | Sanyo Solar Ark - A Solar Power Plant Built From Rejects | World's Largest Aircraft - Antonov AN-225 | The Silent People of Finland | Kosinj Bridge - A Bridge With Holes | Unique Building - Built Over Two Bridges | Cosmovitral - A Beautiful Stained Glasshouse Garden | More "Bridges with Holes" | World's Largest Dinosaur | Book Shaped Buildings | World's Biggest Cuckoo Clocks | Sunny Side Up in La Paz | World’s Largest Paddle | Trojan Horses of Denmark | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 7 | Which is the World's Largest Church? | Pietermaritzburg Station - Start Of Gandhi's Fight Against Discrimination | A Spanish Mosque in India | Microsoft - Birthplace | Ancient Karla and Bhaja Buddhist Caves of India | HABOG - Nuclear Waste Management in An Artistic Way | Monasteries on the Rocks - Meteora, Greece | Can You Recognise This # 14 | Coconut Crab - The Largest Land Arthropod in the World | One O'clock Gun, Edinburgh | Spectacular Painted Hills of Oregon | Vertical Green Garden of Madrid | Even More Giant Hands Around The World | Tower which is leaner than the Leaning Tower of Pisa | Oldest Olympic Rings and Olympic Flame Tower | Slauerhoff Bridge - A Giant Flying Kite | Northumberlandia - World’s Largest Human Shaped Land Art (Under Construction) | Noorderlicht - World's Only Ice-Bound Ship-Hotel | World's Most Expensive Island | World's Littlest Skyscraper | Hazarduari - Palace With 1000 Doors | World's Largest Burr (Burl) | Tallest Statue in the World - Spring Temple Buddha | World's Largest Chessboard | World's Largest Tyre | Magdeburg Water Bridge - World's Largest Navigable Aqueduct | Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge | Apple - Birthplace | Why I switched from White to Black Background | 1000 Islands - St. Lawrence River | Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, India | World's Largest Bulldozer | Floating Swimming Pool - Badeschiff | Can You Recognise This # 25 | Clingstone House - A Remarkable House on A Rock | Can You Recognise This # 2 | Intricate Stepwell Near Jaipur | Hopewell Rocks - Flower Pots of Nature | Swarovski's Crystal Worlds | Equatorial Monuments Around the World | World's Largest Thermometer | Giant Coin Shaped Building | A Lake Named Pi (3.1416) | Bridge to Nowhere | World's Biggest Cashew Tree | The Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada | Ennedi Plateau - Sahara’s Secret Garden | World's Largest Collection of Old Windmills | Water Tank House | Beautiful Blue Mosque of St. Petersburg | Guitar Shaped Buildings | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 19 | Oil Lake on Fire | Oak Trees atop Tower of Guinigis, Lucca, Italy | Strange Landscape | Weird Houses Around the World | World's Largest Monopoly Board | Colourful Domes | World's Biggest Inverted Pyramid Building | Waldspirale (Forest Spiral), Darmstadt | Can You Recognise This # 18 | World's Largest Speaking Horn | Sphere Within A Sphere | Almost Perfect Cone - Mt. Taranaki | Giant Anamorphic Red Flower, Nanning Gateway, China | Water Melon House | Oldest Cherry Blossom Trees in The World | Grand Peterhof Palace - The Russian Versailles | Giant Hydra Headed Dragon Clock | Can You Recognise This # 20 | Amazing Volcano House - Living on Top of A Volcano | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 1 | Giraffe Through The Roof | Piano and Violin Shaped Building | Unique Temple of Rats - Karni Mata Temple | Giant Crocodile Shaped Hotel | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 11 | Spoonbridge and Cherry - Minneapolis Sculpture Garden | Musical Wall of Dresden | Beautiful Lagoons Amidst Sand Dunes | Seven-Coloured Earth of Chamarel, Mauritius | Which is the World's Highest Peak? | Stunningly Colourful Rocks of Zhangye Danxia Landform | Spiral Shaped Church - The Temple, Independence, USA | Worlds Largest Spherical Dome - Ericsson Globe | Ice which is not ice - Pamukkale, Turkey | Vulcano Buono - The Good Volcano | Cat Who Walks Through Walls | World's Largest Mosaic | Bourn Windmill - 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A Remarkable Prehistoric Wooden Circle | World's Largest Terrestrial Vehicle | Weird Houses Around the World - 9 | Fyrish Monument - A Monument Built To Give Employment | World's Largest Grid Clock | World's Largest Poster | A Modern Bridge Designed by Leonardo da Vinci | Remarkable Rocks' Australia are Truly Remarkable | Giant Hands Around The World (57 New Additions) | Prebischtor - Largest Natural Stone Bridge in Europe | A colourful Hotel Complex - Marques de Riscal | New Year and First Anniversary | Man who single-handedly built his own palace | Giant Rock Painting of Buddha, Lashaosi, China | 4-Way Bridges Around The World | Nikola-Lenivets - Small City With Big Art | Korean War Memorial - World's Largest War Monument | Poor Man's Taj Mahal, Aurangabad, India | Gateway Arch - Highest Monument in USA | Weird Houses Around the World - 3 | The Windmills of Don Quixote | Amazing New Bridge (Puente Nuevo) Which Is Not New | Weird Houses Around the World - 15 | Weird Houses Around the World - 19 | Castle which is not a Castle | Hitler's Grandiose Plan for Berlin | World's Largest Baseball Bat | Rundle Lantern - Huge Dynamic Digital Art, Adelaide | The Rundetarn (Round Tower), Copenhagen, Denmark | Magnificent Mosaic Rug Carpet On Rudolf Nureyev's Grave | 29 More Giant Hands Around The World | Can You Recognise This # 16 | Vijversburg Estate Tri-Bridge | First IBM-PC - Birthplace | World's Largest Foosball Table | World's Loneliest House | Zhivopisny Bridge - A Picturesque Red Bridge With Spider's Sac | A Monument to Enema | Unsolved Mystery of Crooked Trees | World's Largest Flower - Floralis Generica | Rocks on the Move | Selfridges, Birmingham - A Building Adorned With Sequins | Stone House at Fafe | World's Narrowest Bridge - Nutty Narrows Bridge | Weird Houses Around the World - 16 | Quaint Little House Over A Bridge | World' Tallest Clock Tower / World's Biggest Clock | 3.2 km long Slogan, Chile | Louisa/Fort Gay Tri-Bridge | Can You Recognise This # 22 | Island made famous by Google Earth | Riding the Lion's Back | Giant Hands, Duke Town, Calabar, Nigeria | Cinque Terre - 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Birthplace | Strokes of Nature - Colours of Desert | Beautiful But Cursed Island Of Gaiola | House on A Pole | Squaw Creek - Stopover point for million of Snow Geese | Can You Recognise This # 5 | World's Largest Spinning Top | Giant Hands Around The World - May 2024 Update | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 3. | The Square Head Building - An Amazing Habitable Sculpture | Erawan Museum - World’s Largest Zoomorphic Building | Habitat '67 - World's First Modular Pre-fab Housing Complex | Amazing Hen Shaped Church | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 29 (Hanging Stone, Ergaki National Park, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 28 | Can You Recognise This? | Magere Brug (The Skinny Bridge), Amsterdam | Diamondback Bridge - Walking in the Belly of Rattlesnake | The House In The Sea | Widest Non-Clonal Tree in The World | Expressway through A Building - Gate Tower, Osaka | Hollywood Walk of Fame is 50 Years Old | Amazing Floating Islands of Loktak Lake, Manipur, India | Container Buildings at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London | Tri-Bridges Around the World | Colmar Tropicale - A French Themed Resort in Malaysia | Fantastic Voyage Through Human Body - CORPUS Centre | Shivering Sands Army Fort - Mini Defence Towers | Giant Plug and Socket | World's Largest Granite Soup Bowl | World's Largest Solar Powered Stadium | Bridge of Vases | Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, Romania | Chocolate Hills, Philippines | Magnificent Stained Glass Winter Garden, Ursuline Institute, Belgium | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 5 | Can You Recognise This # 23 | Church Carved out of Single Block of Rock | Bibliotheca Alexandrina - The New Library of Alexandria | Palace on the Rocks | Coober Pedy - The Underground Town | World's Tallest Chimney With Spiral Staircase | A Town Made Famous by Star Trek - Vulcan, Canada | Cano Cristales - World's Most Beautiful River | Amazing Trees Atop Chimneys | Huge Colourful Streamers on the Hills of Tibet | Can You Recognise This # 3 | Breathtaking Trolltunga - The Troll's Tongue in Norway | Cross (Krestovy) Bridge - World's First 4-Way Bridge | Sign Post Forest | "Sulaiman-Too" Sacred Mountain of Kyrgyzstan | Alnwick Treehouse | Purrfectly Adorable: A Cat-Shaped Crèche | Where old planes go to die! | Hanging Coffins, Sagada, Philippines | Crescent Shaped Island | World's Largest Painting | Sleeping Beauty Mural | Giant Hands Around The World | Bar Coded Building | World's Largest Hole in a Lake | Giant Golden Bees Attack World's Tallest Residential Tower | The Cloud Gate, Chicago | World's Largest Drumsticks | Strokes of Nature - Black Dragon | Mausoleum of Tamerlane - A Precursor To Mughal Architecture | Cretto di Gibellina - Memorial To A Town Destroyed by Earthquake | Oldest Hanging Train | Metropolis - The Hometown of Superman | Giant Hands Around The World - Major Additions | Red Crab Migration - Christmas Island | Amazing Cruise Ship Shaped Hotel on Cliff | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 18 | Big Question | Brick Train Locomotive | Beautiful Kalyan Minaret, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | The Wave (Rock), Arizona, USA | Fairy Walking Bridge, Xihai Grand Canyon, China | Unique and Beautiful Crystal Mosque of Malaysia | Painting in Field | Can You Recognise This # 21 | Göbekli Tepe - World's Oldest Excavated Temple | More Giant Hands Around the World | Island of the Dolls - World's Creepiest Collection of Dolls | Unique Circular Footbridge, Aveiro, Portugal | Crazy Tower With Crawling Babies | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 21 | World's Biggest Apple | Kondyor Massif - A Perfectly Circular Geological Formation | Poetic Palindromic Roundabout | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 16 | Amazing Subterranean Cathedral of Wieliczka Salt Mine | Bookshelf Murals Around The World | World's Steepest Funicular Railways | Enchanting Bamboo Forest of Sagano | Nice Chalet at Cascade de Gairaut, Nice | A Small House on The Rock | Wave Rock, Hyden, Australia | Murals of Invergordon | World's Largest Crossword | Giant Millennium Clock, Tianjun, China | World's Largest Hole in a Lake (Revised*) | Gun Shaped Lake | Paragon Prairie Tower - Americas' Largest Glass Mural | World's Northernmost Mainland Lighthouse | Drive-in Ferris Wheel | Quetzalcoatl's Nest - Snake Shaped Housing Complex | Bridge Houses at Bad Kreuznach Germany | Google - Birthplace | World's Longest Tapestry | Amazing Rice Paddy Art | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 17 | Birthplaces of Digital Giants | Gangnam Style Hands, Seoul, Korea | World's Largest Sculpture Park - Changchun | A Giant Egg for the Easter | Heart of Cape Town - Museum of World's First Heart Transplant | Bridge Between Eurasian and American Continents | Beautiful Bamboo Mosque in Rural Malaysia | Can You Recognise This # 7 | A Jumbo 747 Hotel | World's First Swing Aqueduct - Barton Aqueduct | Glengall Bridge - London's Little Drawbridge | Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock), Norway | World's First Hard Disk - Birthplace | Fabulous Four - The Beatles in Topiary | World's Largest Sculpture of Beatles | Tianjin Eye - A giant Ferris wheel on a bridge | Organic Building With Flower Pots On Its Façade | Garstin's Folly - Gol Ghar (Round House), Patna, India | The Floating Church, Settihalli, Hassan, India | Vitoslavlitsy - The Museum of Russian Wooden Architecture | Las Lajas Cathedral - A Cathedral Built in A Gorge | Falkirk Wheel - Only rotating boat lift in the World | The Bridge from London to Arizona | Oldest Wooden House In Europe | Metal Monster or Metal Art? | Yellow Submarine of The Beatles | Pigeon Tower, Isfahan | Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron | Unusual Extra-Terrestrial Landscape Of Yehliu Geo Park | Carhenge - Modern Day Stonehenge | Shibam - World's Oldest Skyscraper City | Shaking Minarets of Sidi Bashir Mosque, Ahmedabad | World's Largest Easter Egg | Snake Building, Berlin | Tree Lockup | Graffiti @ Kelburn Castle | World's Largest Sludge Storage Tank - 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| Thrown out of Window | Weird Houses Around the World - 4 | World's Largest Coin | World's Largest Treetop Hotel - The Ariau Amazon Towers | Fake Round Bridge Which is Not Fake | Intricate Latticework at Sidi Sayyid's Mosque, Ahmedabad | Magical Floating Water Tap, Siliguri, India | Town Which Twice Escaped Atom Bomb Annihilation | Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe - Chapel on a volcanic plug | Can You Recognise This # 27 | World's Most Crooked Street - Lombard Street, San Francisco | Can You Recognise This # 1 | World's Largest Ship - Emma Mærsk | World's Largest Rehal | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 9 | Unusual Shaped Red Bridge in Utrecht, The Netherlands | Tri-Bridges Around the World | City Lounge, St. Gallens - World's Largest Open Air Lounge | Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro | America's Oldest Functioning Windmill | Amazing Floating Islands of Loktak Lake, Manipur, India | World's Largest Synthetic Material Sculpture | A "Mammoth" Statue, Salekhard, Siberia | Giant Hands of Mario Irarrázabal | Ponte Vecchio - Florence's Oldest Bridge with Shops | Unique Curling Bridge | Giant Drawer House | Calamita Cosmica The Giant Skeleton on Prowl |

Equatorial Monuments Around the World

Edit Note: July 10, 2022
This post is now defunct and a new post on the subject can be found at this link. 


This post is a major update of my earlier post on the subject. In the older post only 14 locations were marked while in the current post 36 39 locations have been identified so far. (See Edit Note dated June 7, 2016 at the end of this post)
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The Equator is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface approximately equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole and it divides the Earth into two Hemisphere - Northern and a Southern Hemisphere. Although major portion of the Equator lies on ocean however it crosses the land mass mainly in Indonesia, Sumatra, Central Africa and South America.

In many locations around the World, which lie on the Equator, Monuments and Markers have been erected. Some are very large, some are small and quite a few are just a hoarding or sign by the road. I have tried to locate such monuments/markers and these are listed below in sequential order of movement of Sun from East to West.
  1. Bambanipa, Trans Sulawesi Road, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
  2. Santan Ulu, Unknown Road, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
  3. Santan Ulu, Bontang-Samarinda Road, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
  4. Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
  5. Pontianak, Indonesia
  6. Sassa Village, Linga Island, Indonesia
  7. Pangkalan Lesung, AH25 (Lintas-Sumatra) Road, Indonesia
  8. Lipat Kain, Lipat Kain-Jalan Highway, Indonesia
  9. Koto Alam, Trans Sumatra Highway, West Sumatra, Indonesia
  10. Bonjol, Sumatra, Indonesia
  11. Nanyuki, Kenya
  12. Ol Pejeta Conservancy, near Nanyuki, Kenya
  13. Nyaharuru-Nyeri Road, Kenya
  14. Road C77 near Nyahururu, Kenya
  15. Unnamed Road near Solai, Kenya
  16. Nakuru-Sigor Road, Mogotio, Kenya
  17. Road C55 near Nakuru, Kenya
  18. Eldoret-Nakuru Road, near Baringo Railway Station, Kenya
  19. Siriba, Kisumu-Busia Road, Kenya
  20. Nabusanke, Masala-Kampala Road, Uganda
  21. Kikorongo, Fort Portal - Mpondwe Road, Uganda
  22. Kisangani-Goma Road near Congo River, DR Congo
  23. Mbandaka, DR Congo - An historical marker made by the famous Sir Henry Morton Stanley of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" fame.
  24. Makoua, DR Congo
  25. Unknown Road off Hwy N2 near Nzoghengom, Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon
  26. Libreville-Lambaréné (N1) Road near Kongo, Gabon
  27. Islet of Rolas (Ilhéu das Rolas), Sao Tome and Principe Islands
  28. Macapá, Brazil
  29. AP-010/Duca Serra Road Intersection Marker near Macapá, Brazil
  30. BR-174 Road near Rorainópolis, Roraima, Brazil
  31. BR-307 near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil
  32. Unknown Road off E-10 near Marion, Tarapoa, Sucumbios, Ecuador
  33. Unknown Road off E-10, Sucumbios, Ecuador
  34. Sun-Dial Monument, Guachalá, Cayambe, Ecuador
  35. Globe Monument, Guachalá, Cayambe, Ecuador
  36. Pan American Highway (Garr 35), near Santa Rosa de Pingulmi, Pichincha, Ecuador
  37. The "un-official" Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the Earth), San Antanio, Ecuador
  38. The "official" Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the Earth), San Antanio, Ecuador
  39. The old Equator Monument, Calacalí, Ecuador
I request my readers to let me know if I have missed out any monument/marker.

Given below are the images and location of above listed monuments/markers;

1. Bambanipa Equator Monument, Trans Sulawesi Road, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Image from Panoramio is by nordinwan

The monument depicts the shape of the Island of Sulawesi.

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2. Santan Ulu Equator Monument, Unknown Road, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Image from Panoramio is by jj_wind7

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3. Santan Ulu Equator Monument, Bontang-Samarinda Road, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Image from Panoramio is by my vidcol

More info: Wikipedia

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4. Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
This monument is located in dense forest in the Tumbang Olong village, District Uut Danum, Murung Raya regency, Central Kalimantan. It was built in 2001 by a timber company. (Source: centralborneo.net)

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Credits for finding this location is to smask, Member Google Earth Community Forums. Thank you smask.

5. Pontianak Equator Monument, Indonesia

Image from Panoramio is by deddy_darusman

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6. Sassa Village Equator Sign, Linga Island, Indonesia
A simple nondescript sign. It can't get simpler than this!

Image from Panoramio is by pinckers

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7. Pangkalan Lesung Equator Monument, AH25 (Lintas-Sumatra) Road, Indonesia

Image from Flickr is by Bang Ardin

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8. Lipat Kain Equator Monument, Lipat Kain-Jalan Highway, Indonesia.

Image Source: Google Street View

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9. Koto Alam Equator Monument, Trans Sumatra Highway, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Image from Panoramio is by Azdy elfistoni

Nearby there is another pillar marker;

Image from Panoramio is by elisabeth.poscher

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10. Bonjol, Sumatra, Indonesia

Image from Panoramio is by Richard Langford

Image from Flickr is by aikaterinh

Image from Panoramio is by sedas

Pedestrian Bridge

Image from Panoramio is by Hardi Muhardi, S.E.

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11. Nanyuki, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by Cheuk

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12. Ol Pejeta Conservancy, near Nanyuki, Kenya

The Ol Pejeta Conservancy is a 90,000-acre (360 km2) not-for-profit wildlife conservancy in Central Kenya's Laikipia County. It is situated on the equator west of Nanyuki.

Image from Panoramio is by SergioC76

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13. Nyaharuru-Nyeri Road, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by vividman

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14. Road C77 near Nyahururu, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by Eyad Al Araj

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15. Unnamed Road near Solai, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by TheStas

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16. Nakuru-Sigor Road, Mogotio, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by roks

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17. Road C55 near Nakuru, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by BurtsevAlexey

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18. Eldoret-Nakuru Road, near Baringo Railway Station, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by gruntie

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Credits for finding this location is to smask, Member Google Earth Community Forums. Thank you smask.

19. Siriba, Kisumu-Busia Road, Kenya

Image from Panoramio is by Roloon

Image from Panoramio is by darko.paradi

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20. Nabusanke, Masala-Kampala Road, Uganda

Image from Panoramio is by alexluz

Image from Panoramio is by Dave LLOYD

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21. Kikorongo, Fort Portal - Mpondwe Road, Uganda

Image from Panoramio is by m.matsumoto

The basic design of this monument is same as the one at Nabasunke, Masala-Kampala Road, Uganda (# 20)

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22. Kisangani-Goma (N3) Road near Congo River, DR Congo

Image from Panoramio is by oltma

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23. Mbandaka, DR Congo
Mbandaka town was founded in 1883 by Sir Henry Morton Stanley of "Dr.Livingstone, I presume?" fame who had given it the name of "Equateur". Stanley had placed a large "Equator Stone" near the river bank south of the city to mark the point where he believed the Equator to cross the river. It remains there even today. (Source: Wikipedia)

Image from Panoramio is by philKin

Image from Panoramio is by philKin

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24. Makoua, DR Congo

Image from Panoramio is by Lydie STUELSATZ-DERBEZ

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25. Unknown Road off Hwy N2 near Nzoghengom, Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon

Image from Panoramio is by Thomas Tvergaard

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26. Near Kongo, Libreville-Lambaréné (N1) Road, Gabon

Image from Panoramio is by Yves Galipeau

Image from Panoramio is by bvoneche

The markers shown in these two images are basically same. The first one was the old marker made by Agro-Gabon, a Govt. owned company. It was privatised and taken over by Siat Gabon in 2004. The marker was therefore re-made and the new marker can be seen in the second image. However the locations of the two images in Panoramio are not matching. I have placed the GE placemarker based on the location marked by Yves Galipeau.

Credits: I am thankful to Yves Galipeau for informing me about this location and also about Agro-Gabon/Siat.

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27. Islet of Rolas (Ilhéu das Rolas), Sao Tome and Principe

Image from Panoramio is by xavinap

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28. Macapá, Brazil

Image from Panoramio is by David e Brenna Alves

Image from Panoramio is by Pozzi Sergio

"Milton de Souza Correia Zerao" football stadium is located adjacent to the monument. Its midfield line lies exactly on the Equator - zero latitude. (Wikipedia)

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29. AP-010/Duca Serra Road Intersection near Macapá, Brazil

Image from Panoramio is by arcabuz

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30. BR-174 Road near Rorainópolis, Roraima, Brazil

Image Source: Google Street View

31. BR-307 near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil
A small marker with line and explanatory map.

Image from Panoramio is by Rafael Rezende

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32. Unknown Road off E-10 near Marion, Tarapoa, Sucumbios, Ecuador

Image from Panoramio is by mKlingsiek

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33. Unknown Road near E-10, Ecuador

Image from Panoramio is by Wilman Francisco Criollo Aldaz

View location in Google Maps. (Location based on above Panoramio picture).

Note: I am not sure about above location. As per plaque it should be 76°25'52.8"W where as the above Panoramio picture is placed at 76° 36' 0.45" W. Another Panoramio image is placed at 76° 35' 54.23" W.

34. Sun-Dial Monument, Guachalá, Cayambe, Ecuador

Image from Panoramio is by Wacope

Image from Panoramio is by seebub

This monument in the shape of a giant sun-dial is in Guachalá, Cayambe, Ecuador. Reportedly this is the only monument in Ecuador built exactly on the equator line. It is part of Quitsato Project a non-profit project which uses its funds for the investigation of the equatorial line.

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35. Globe Monument, Guachalá, Cayambe, Ecuador
A bit south of the Solar Clock monument on Equator there is another monument in the shape of Globe, at Guachalá, Cayambe.

Image from Panoramio is by Joeseph-Cro

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36. Pan American Highway (Garr 35), near Santa Rosa de Pingulmi,  Pichincha, Ecuador

Image from Panoramio is by Martin Pazzani

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Credits for finding this location is to smask, Member Google Earth Community Forums. Thank you smask.

37. The "un-official" Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the Earth), San Antanio, Ecuador

Image from Panoramio is by mKlingsiek

Image from Panoramio is by rokapi2008

There are two Equatorial monuments in San Antanio. This is the unofficial one and is closer to the Equator as compared to the official one which is about 200 meters South-West of this location (see #38 below). Intiñan Site Museum is also located at this spot. Although it has staked claim for being virtually on the equator this claim is disputed by others.

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It is worth noting that an ancient Inca archaeological site about 3 kilometres to East, (shown below) is located on the equator itself.

Image from Panoramio is by frankrod

The Quitsato Project using WGS 84, which is reportedly the most exact and up to date global positioning system, discovered that the peak of Mount Catequilla archaeological site was located exactly at the zero latitude ( 0º 0' 0" ).

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38. The "official" Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the Earth), San Antanio, Ecuador
Based on the tools available with them in 1930s, the French Academy of Sciences had decided the location of the Equator at this site. Accordingly in 1936, with the support of the French American Committee, Ecuadorian geographer Dr. Luis Tufiño built a 10-meter monument at this location.

In 1979, the old monument was moved 7 km to the west, to the town of Calacalí (see #39) and a larger replica of the original monument was made at the site although it was and remains about 200 metres away from the Equator. This slightly mislocated monument is the official and touristy monument and is called "Mitad del Mundo" (Middle of the World).

Mitad del Mundo contains a small Museum of local culture and other attractions such as a Planetarium, an amazing miniature model of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and restaurants. A small town surrounding the monument at the Museo Etnográfico functions as the tourist center, replicating a colonial Spanish town and is called "Ciudad Mitad del Mundo" (Middle of the World City).

Image from Panoramio is by fernando D

Image from Panoramio is by fernando D

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39. The old Equator Monument, Calacalí, Ecuador

Image from Panoramio is by Zsolti a Béka

This monument was originally at San Antanio, about 7 kilometres to East, but in 1979 it was shifted to Calacalí, and is located near to, but not on the true equator line.
Its larger giant size replica has been built afresh on the original touristy site at San Antanio, (see # 35) and is called "Mitad del Mundo" (Middle of the World).

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Acknowledgement: My main source of information has been the Panoramio images of Equatorial Monuments/Markers posted by Panoramio users. I am thankful to all those users who have shared their images of Equatorial Monuments and Markers in Panoramio. It would have been almost impossible for me to find most of the locations without their pictures.

Edit Note - June 07, 2016
Following locations have been added based on input from smask, member, Google Earth Community Forums. Thank you smask.
 - Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
 - Eldoret-Nakuru Road, near Baringo Railway Station, Kenya
 - Pan American Highway (Garr 35), near Santa Rosa de Pingulmi, Pichincha, Ecuador


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