I visited the enormous monument built on the “equator” near Quito, Ecuador, a few months ago. The area surrounding “Mitad del Mundo” offers a bustling scene with commercial shops, earsplitting bands, and a huge obelisk from which a line on the ground extends a long distance. Tourists get their pictures taken with one foot in the “Northern Hemisphere” and the other across the line in the “southern.” Great fun, except, it’s not the equator.
Bob Berman’s strange universe: Equator for sale
September 2007: Suffice it to say, it's fun being on the equator, even if science struggles to prevail there.
