The Equator Monument

 monument, landmark, sculpture, geodetic point

Pontianak City is also called Kota Khatulistiwa ( City of Equator )
This monument shows that Pontianak City is passing by the equator 00 latitude. 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 monument is located in Batulayang sub district, North Pontianak district, the distance from the center of the town is more or less 5 km. it can be reached by land transportation such as by cars or water transportation through Kapuas river such as by motorboats or speedboats.