The Somnatha Jyotir Lingam Temple, Gujarat

 
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.

Locals claim that if one were able to sail from here in a straight line, the end of the journey would be the North Pole.