The main N-S highway in Sumatra also has the line painted on it and a small
arch over the road. Tourist buses stop there for photos, but no major
monument.
The tourist information centre in Rockhampton, Qld, sits on the Tropic of
Capricorn, and a large sundial-like monument stands outside.
A roadsign on the east coast highway (route 1) of the South Island, NZ,
locates 45degrees, for the many people travelling from the equator to the
pole.
Brendan
>From: David Mark <dmark@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Middle of the World
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:29:24 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>There is a great monument, "Mitad del Mundo", (Middle of the World), in
>Ecuador: http://ute.edu.ec/~mjativa/ce/mitadmundo.html
>Stand with one foot in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern.
>Only problem is, it is at the intersection of the equator and nothing in
>particular...
>
>David
>
>On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, michael donner wrote:
>
> > well it is my understanding that the highly conflicted & essentially
>unreal
> > sexinational hendecapoint arauclfrgbnz did exist there at the south pole
> > until the antarctic treaty of 1959 indefinitely suspended & apparently
>very
> > effectively abolished it
> > while converting it & all antarctica into everyones land in the process
> >
> > if you or others still favor the ghost of arauclfrgbnz tho
> > then i would still like to call it at least a leading candidate
> > but i think you would be living in the past &or possibly the future here
> > & frankly i hope you wont because it was & would again be such a mess
> >
> > other more fully actual candidates might be
> > the tri country point with the biggest monument
> > probably cdcfsd
> > aka central african republic congo democratic republic sudan
> > see message 748
> > azconmut for being the most visited & most acknowledged megapoint
> > the geographical center of the world near iskander turkey
> > the oldest extant tri country point or monument
> > both still unknown
> > the international rock of ages still unknown
> > bwnazmzw certainly if it were ever completely realized
> > & hopefully you &or others will nominate still others
> >
> > at least i certainly do hope we can get a full roster together & then
> > discuss this sensibly & perhaps decide the question in a free for all
> > say once a year
> >
> > m
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Donner wrote:
> > >
> > >> the leading candidate for global maxipoint has now been traced
>virtually
> > >
> > >What about the South Pole?
> > >
> > >David
> > >
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