Mitad del Mundo - Middle of the World!?

Today my plan was to go to the middle of the world and jumping from one hemisphere to the other. Soon I figured out that this place isn’t actually the middle of the earth.

The placement of the equatorial line was defined throughout a expedition called the French Geodesic Mission in 1736. Years after that, it was brought to light that the "Geodesic Mission" had been wrong about the exact coordinates where the line passed through— the placement of the equator were incorrect by 240 metres 🤷‍♂️

I also saw a my second Halo 🤩, which is an optical phenomenon produced by light interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. The first one I saw last year when I was in Panama.Read more