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Old 22nd January 2008 | 08:30
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airborne_artist
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My father took one of the first non-US operated GPS units to the Falklands in 1978 or 1979. He found that Port Stanley was not that far out - I think in the region of 750 metres. Not bad, considering that the chart's data was surveyed about 150 years before.
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