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Show Australia's Geogaptilc Position. Australia's exact position on world maps, originally determined by Captain Cap-tain Cook, the early explorer, was brought into question recently when wireless authorities, after direct checking check-ing by radio with standard time clocks at Lyons, France, said they be-; be-; lieved there Is nn error of perhaps ; 100 yards on nil maps In Australia's north-south Hues. Seafarers who first sketched Australia's Aus-tralia's position based their calculations calcula-tions on the chronometer, the finely made watch which keeps Greenwich time. Corrections were made from i time to time, until final checking by cable was believed to be accurate. Lately, however, Sydney wireless men who have been listening to the clock ticks at Lyons, say they have discovered there Is a percpptible loss of time In transmitting the correct seconds over the cable. The loss, It Is said, led to errors In map-making. |