Sundials - big & small

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Sundials come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny pocket dials to huge, meter high dials in observatories or sundial parks. Although their main purpose is to tell the time, they are often used as focus points in gardens, as art in the form of sculptures and even as jewelry. Introduction

 
The biggest sundial in Africa can be found in the Gamtoos valley in the Eastern Cape hamlet of Hankey. It was erected by a local farmer in 1988. The biggest sundial in the world is a gigantic equatorial dial, part of the Jaipur Observatory in Rajasthan, India. It is 27 metres high and reads the time accurate to the minute.

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