Australia's GPS Drift Adjustment

Australia's GPS Drift Adjustment

In 2017, Australia changed all GPS coordinates by 1.8 meters to account for continental drift since the last GPS update in 1994. The Australian plate, which moves north 7 cm per year, is one of the world's fastest-drifting plates.

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