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Originally Posted by BadNick
Tul,
How do you/we reconcile that with Semisopochnoi's longitude being shown as 179°37' East in every reference I can find. Can anybody show a source saying it has a WH longitude or even on the IDL?
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The photo you posted shows the IDL-
The IDL doesn't always follow 180 it jogs around things like countries. It does this mainly up around Russia and down in the islands in the South Pacific. Keeps countries all on the same date. It, unlike Greenwich, isn't always a straight line.
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Last edited by Tully Mars; 03-12-2009 at 04:34 PM..
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