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Equator Zero Point Marker

Sao Tome and Principe / Me-Zochi / Trindade /
 sculpture, interesting place, border marker

The equator marked by a pillar as it crosses Ilhéu das Rolas, in São Tomé and Príncipe. Photo in Wikipedia article.

Gago Coutinho (1869–1959), officer of the Portuguese Navy, navigator and historian, headed a geodesic mission to São Tomé between 1915 and 1918, when marks were placed as a basis for a geodetic network in the archipelago. In the process, Gago Coutinho proved that Ilhéu das Rolas is crossed by the equatorial line
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