M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I don't know whether this plays any role in M&D, and unfortunately I 
don't have the time to check, but only near the equator is it possible 
that the sun stands vertical above one's head so that there is no 
shadow. In fact, this is one of the definitions of the tropics:

"The tropics include all the areas on the Earth where the Sun reaches a 
subsolar point, a point directly overhead at least once during the solar 
year."

Wiki, s.v.

Cf. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

  All in a hot and copper sky,
  The bloody Sun, at noon,
  Right up above the mast did stand,
  No bigger than the Moon.

FWIW


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