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 This stone marks where the road crosses the line 45 degrees South although as the signpost shows, because of the oblateness of the Earth, the point which is as close to the South Pole as to the Equator was actually about 10 km back down the road, almost in Oamaru. UTC Time: 21:26, Wednesday 04 December 2013 Local Time: 10:26, Thursday 05 December 2013 Estimate of longitude: 171° 3' 9.54" E = 171.052650° Estimate of latitude: 45° 0' 1.98" S = -45.000550° Possible error on position estimate: 50 metres | |