The Gujarat coastline has been a focal point for traders and invaders for centuries. The Shiva Temple at Somnath, which holds a naturally occurred Jyotir Lingam, has been a landmark to mariners from time immemorial
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South of the temple, on the wall at the sea shore, a pillar is
erected. On the top, an arrow is indicating that between the
Somnath Temple and the South Pole there is no landarea only the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
