name the station farthest from the equator
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Answer:
Mount Chimborazo, while not even close to the tallest mountain from sea level, sits squarely on this bulging equator and so is 7,096 ft (2,163 m) farther from the Earth's center than the summit of Mount Everest! Located between the cities of Guayaquil and Quito, Chimborazo is in actuality an inactive volcano.
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Chimborazo is the answer because the shape of the planet. The Earth is not a perfect sphere but rather an oblate spheroid. Due to the pull of gravity on the planet, the earth bulges in the center around the equator. Mount Chimborazo, while not even close to the tallest mountain from sea level, sits squarely on this bulging equator and so is 7,096 ft. (2,163 m) farther from the Earth’s center than the summit of Mount Everest!
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