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Is Mount Kenya three degrees south of the equator?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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No. It's almost on it. It lies at 0°9′00″S 37°18′00″E according to the (highly accurate) information in the Wikipedia post, which is linked below. That figure puts it zero degrees and nine minutes south of the equator, which is very close to actually being on it.

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