
Places Of Interest
Tugu Khatulistiwa (Equator Monument)
This monument shows that Pontianak City is passing by the equator, 0° latitude. This monument at first was built in 1928 by Astronomical Expedition Team from Dutch. In 1938, it was re-built with some improvement by Opzicter Silaban, an architect. In 1990 it was re-built again by duplicating it in a bigger size. The size was five times bigger than the original and it was meant to protect the original statue. The monument has four poles, a sketch of world with an arrow. It was accredited on September 21, 1991. Every March 21-23 and September 21-23, at midday, the sun passes over the equator line/the culmination; therefore, it makes the shadow of that monument and every other erected things around the statue disappeared (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. It is located about 3 km from Pontianak City.
indonesia akan memiliki sundial atau jam matahari tertinggi di dunia jika sundial pontianak jadi dibangun. Dari semua kota yang dilewati garis khatulistiwa, hanya ada satu kota di dunia ini yang dibelah atau dilintasi secara persis oleh garis khatulistiwa, yaitu kota pontianak. Pembangunan sundial di lokasi sekitar tugu khatulistiwa pontianak diperkirakan menghabiskan biaya sebesar rp76,6 miliar dengan lahan seluas 44,1 meter. Rencananya tugu tersebut akan dibangun dengan tinggi 71 meter, sehingga akan menjadikan tugu khatulistiwa sebagai sundial tertinggi di dunia. Pada lahan di sekitar sundial tugu akan dibangun sundial berukuran kecil sebanyak 17 buah. Angka 17 dan 71 diambil dari angka kelahiran kota pontianak. Untuk memperkuat ikon pontianak sebagai kota khatulistiwa juga akan dibangun twin solar telescope, museum galeri, science centre, kawasan komersial, amphiteater, dan convention di kawasan tugu itu
Indonesia will have a sun clock sundial or the highest in the world if the sundial pontianak be built. Of all the cities through which the equator, there is only one city in the world that is split or crossed by exactly the equator, the city pontianak. Development in locations around the sundial memorial pontianak equator estimated cost for rp76, 6 billion with an area of 44.1 meters. Plans monument will be built with 71 meters high, so that would make the equator as a sundial monument in the world's highest. On land around the sundial sundial monument will be built as many as 17 small-sized fruit. Figures 17 and 71 taken from the city's birth rate pontianak. Icon to strengthen the equator as well as the city will be built twin solar telescope, museums, galleries, science centers, commercial areas, amphitheater, and the convention on the monument area
KUNJUNGI LOKASI TUGU KHATULISTIWA PONTIANAK
21 - 23 September 2011 dan 21 - 23 Maret 2012
MARILAH BERAMAI RAMAI MENGUNJUNGI LOKASI TUGU KHATULISTIWA PONTIANAK UTARA UNTUK MENYAKSIKAN FENOMENA ALAM YAITU TITIK KULMINASI GARIS KHATULISTIWA PADA TANGGAL 21 - 23 SEPTEMBER 2010, ANDA AKAN DIHIBUR OLEH BEBERAPA ATRAKSI WISATA BUDAYA , BAWALAH KELUARGA, SANAK SAUDARA, SAHABAT ANDA KE LOKASI TUGU KHATULISTIWA PONTIANAK. KEJADIAN ALAM TERSEBUT MERUPAKAN KEJADIAN LANGKA PADA SETIAP TAHUNNYA. JANGAN LUPA MEMBAWA KELUARGA ANDA.
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