1. Most of the exercises on this website use a Project Map that covers the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the African country of Liberia.
The important measures of the map are:
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Top (latitude): +9.0 degrees
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Bottom (latitude): -6.0 degrees
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Left (longitude): -23.0 degrees
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Right (longitude): -3.0 degrees
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Latitude mid-point: +1.5 degrees
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Longitude mid-point: -13.0 degrees
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Height: 15 degrees
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Width: 20 degrees
The terms North, South, East and West are not used in the correct notation of signed decimal degrees. For simplicity and to avoid errors, round off all values to whole degrees. This map also covers the entire coastlines of the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire. There is no political basis to the arbitrary selection of this area, and it is only chosen for educational purposes due to the interesting nature of the area.
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