"By the time of our meeting she [Hertha von Dechend] had shifted her attention to Polynesia, and soon she hit pay dirt. As she looked into the archaeological remains on many islands, a clue was given to her. The moment of grace came when, on looking (on a map) at two little islands, mere flyspecks on the waters of the Pacific, she found that a strange accumulation of maraes or cult places could be explained only one way: they, and only they, were both exactly sited on two neat celestial coordininates: the Tropics of Cancer and of Capricorn."

Wikipedia:

"The dimensions attributed to Mount Meru, all the references to it being as a part of the Cosmic Ocean, along with several statements like that the Sun along with all the planets (including Earth itself) circumbulate the mountain, make determining its location most difficult, according to most scholars. However, a small handful number of western scholars have tried quite hard to identify Mount Meru or Sumeru with the Pamirs, north-east of Kashmir.

The Suryasiddhanta mentions that Mt Meru lies in 'the middle of the Earth' (bhugola-madhya) in the land of the Jambunada (Jambudvipa). Narpatijayacharyā, a 9th century text, based on mostly unpublished texts of Yāmala Tantra, mentions 'Sumeru Prithvī-madhye shrūyate drishyate na tu' ('Su-meru is heard to be in the middle of the Earth, but is not seen there'). Vārāha Mihira, in his Panch-siddhāntikā, claims Mt Meru to be at the North Pole (though no mountain exists there as well). Suryasiddhānta, however, mentions a Mt Meru in the middle of Earth, besides a Sumeru and a Kumeru at both the Poles.

It is also quite interesting that in the continent of Africa, there is a town by the name of Meru at the foot of Mt Kenya at exactly the Equator, as well as a mountain called Meru lying in neighbouring Tanzania, at a place named Kinyan-giri (also located exactly on the Equator), which literally translates into Mt Kinyan or Kenya."