Equator Monument is on Khatulistiwa street, North Pontianak, West Kalimantan. The location is about three kms from Pontianak centre, heads for Mempawah. This monument is one of the tourism symbol in Pontianak, and always visited by the people especially for the tourists who come to Pontianak.
This monument at first time was built in 1928 by Astronomical Expedition Team from Dutch. And 1938, it was re-built with some improvement by Opzichter Silaban, an architect. In 1990 this monument had been re-built for the second time by duplicating it in bigger size. The size was five times bigger than the original and its purpose to protect the original statue.
The monument consists of four poles, a sketch of world with an arrow. This building was accredited on September, 21 1991.Every march 21-23 and September 21-23, at midday, the sun passes over the equator line or the culmination; therefore, it makes the shadow of that monument and every other erected things around the statue disappeared, other words the monument and the other things are in the position of without shadow. This becomes the interesting annually event in Pontianak that makes many people come to see it.
The monument consists of four poles, a sketch of world with an arrow. This building was accredited on September, 21 1991.Every march 21-23 and September 21-23, at midday, the sun passes over the equator line or the culmination; therefore, it makes the shadow of that monument and every other erected things around the statue disappeared, other words the monument and the other things are in the position of without shadow. This becomes the interesting annually event in Pontianak that makes many people come to see it.
Posted By: Sari Cahyani
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