The early maps of the continental shorelines are distorted from what they really look like because early ocean navigators
A) used a GPS device that was not accurate.
B) knew how to find longitude but not latitude.
C) knew how to find latitude but not longitude.
D) were unable to sail close enough to the shorelines.
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