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Latitude and longitude describe the location of a point. They're not used for countries,

areas, and land masses.

There is no land at 60° south / 60° west. That point is in the far south Atlantic Ocean,

roughly 150 miles from the nearest islands along the Antarctic coast, 400 miles southeast

of the island of Diego Ramirez off the southern tip of South America, 500 miles west of

the South Orkney Islands, and 575 miles south of Stanley in the Falkland Islands.

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