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Old Jul 18, 2017 | 6:55 pm
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gcmap.com's azimuthal equidistant map algorithm isn't perfectly accurate at the extreme edges. That would be my guess. Google says you're at 49.76% of the earth's diameter, so you're stretching the limits.
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