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Subject: Re: Electronic vs non-electronic
From: John Simmonds (johnsimmo@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 05:01:06 EDT
Nope, first survey's of the east Aust coast were done by James Cook in
1770 and in places todays charts carry a note that they had not been
surveyed since,
John
Pierre Boucher wrote:
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> Are you shure you did not mean 18th/early 19th centuries???
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> Pierre
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> >One thing you've got to remember (at least in my part of the world) is
> >that many charts are still base on surveysdone in the late 17th/early
> >18th centuries. Remarkably accurate given the timepieces and other nav
> >instruments in use then
> >John
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