About four kilometers north of the heart of Pontianak City is the equatorial point that divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres. This place was marked with a monument, built in 1928 by a Dutch geographic expedition. Ten years later, the Equator Monument was renovated and developed by Sylaban, an Indonesian architect.
In 1991 it was again renovated with the addition of the dome to protect the original monument, which remains visible inside the structure, as well as a duplicate of the monument five times larger than the original.
Here at the Equator Monument, a unique natural phenomenon occurs twice a year in mid-March and mid-September: at noon for 5-10 minutes, everything around the monument loses its shadow entirely.
