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The First Mate of a Pirate Ship Shoots the Noonday

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The first mate of a pirate ship shoots the noonday Sun with a sextant and measures the altitude to be 50o to the south on December 21. The time on the ship's clock is 4 P.M. (GMT). What are the longitude and latitude of the ship?

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