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Equator Equator Monument is on the road, North Pontianak, West Kalimantan Province. This monument is located about 3km from the center of Pontianak in the direction of Mempawah. This monument is one of the tourist icon of Pontianak Pontianak often visited people or tourists.
The monument is visited every year on March 21 to 23 and September 21 to 23, As at any date is celebrated as the culmination of the sun.
At that time the exact position of the sun will be above the head to eliminate all the shadows of objects on the surface of the earth. At the culmination of events, the shadow of the monument will "disappear" a few seconds when exposed to sunlight. Similarly, the shadow of other objects around the monument.


According to records obtained in 1941 from V. en. Wiese W by Opzichter quoted Bijdragen tot de Geographie of Chef Van den topographischen dienst in Nederlandsch-Indie: den 31 sten Maart 1928 has arrived in London an international expedition led by a Dutch geographer to determine the point / landmark in the city Equator line Pontianak with the construction as follows:

1. The first monument built in 1928 with an arrow-shaped pillars. 
2. Tahun1930 refined, shaped milestone with lingkarang and arrows.
3. Rebuilt in 1938 with completion by opzicter / architech Silaban original monument can be seen on the inside. 
4. Year 1990, the Equator monument was renovated again by making domes to protect the original monument and statue making copies with a size five times larger than the original monument. Opening on September 21, 1991.

Building the monument consists of 4 pieces of wood milestone purchase (ironwood), each 0.30 meters in diameter, with a total height of the front pillars two pillars as high as 3.05 meters and the back of the circle and an arrow pointing towards high as 4, 40 meters. In the middle it says EVENAAR diameter 2.11 meters long. 2.15 meter length direction. Posts Plat arrows listed below 109o 20 'OLvGr shows the location of the establishment of the monument on the equator east longitude.
The results of measurements by a team of BPPT, shows, exactly the position of the Equator monument is currently located at 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 3.809 seconds north latitude, and, 109 degrees, 19 minutes, 19.9 seconds west longitude. Meanwhile, the position of 0 degrees, 0 minutes and 0 seconds turns through the park or exactly 117 meters to the monument Kapoeas of the current direction. In a place that's now built a new pole is made of PVC pipes and parts of east-west line is marked with rope. Regarding the position stated in the monument (0 degrees, 0 minutes and 0 seconds latitude, 109 degrees 20 minutes, 0 seconds east longitude), based on tracking results BPPT team, the point is located 1.2 miles from the Equator monument, precisely in the rear of a house Congratulations on River Road, Lower Siantan village.