{"id":1895,"date":"2009-05-02T05:06:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T04:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2009-05-02T05:06:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T04:06:14","slug":"where-is-the-equator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"Where is The Equator?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I ventured out of Quito with Margaret (who I met in Samara in my first language class) to find The Equator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Armed with my Garmin GPS we took the public transport buses, 50 cents for a 30km journey, to Mitad del Mundo<\/a> where the Equator was determined in 1736 and the nearby Museo Inti-Nan which claims to be on the actual equator as determined by someones GPS. However , my Garmin told a different story! Here are the traces for the day:-<\/p>\n

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The lower trace is Mitad del Mundo, the centre one is museo inti-Nan and the one at zero is my Garmin…
\nWikipedia has more on the subject here<\/a><\/p>\n

Before we did the Equator we visited the rim of the old Pululahua crater which was interesting to see a community sitting on top of a volcano, like Yellowstone National Park<\/a> in the USA!<\/p>\n

The photographs of the day are on Picasa.<\/p>\n

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By the way the trick of showing the water going down the plughole in opposite directions in each hemisphere is revealed in some detail here<\/a><\/p>\n