📜 A hypnotic 220-pound chrome-plated lead ball swings on a 42-foot-long steel wire.
🔍 Housed in a monumental glass and steel structure, topped by an antique 19th-century lighthouse lamp.
🌎 Visually demonstrates the Earth's rotation.
📍 World's most southerly Foucault Pendulum.
💡 Admire the impressive glass-lighthouse-like tower.
⏳ Observe a 360° counter-clockwise rotation every 36 hours.
🗺️ Located on Avenida Arturo Prat, opposite the Center for Scientific Studies.
⏱️ A 10° shift in the plane of swing occurs hourly.
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