The part that really stayed with me is the ‘Ecuascope’ room - a floor-to-ceiling exhibit that aligns the equator to the stars, and exposes the arbitrariness of our world map. Despite the north ...

The Equator is the most famous imaginary line on ... In Africa, it divides Gabon, both Congos, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia. In Southeast Asia, it intersects Indonesia and Kiribati.

Also known as Congo-Brazzaville, this country lies in Central Africa, bordered by Gabon, Cameroon ... with its territory stretching across the equator. Kiribati is a Pacific island nation composed ...

It was with some sense of achievement I crossed the Equator in the Gabon rainforest ... towards the Congo on the road marked red on my map. This was despite the warnings from the Argentinian ...