[Australia] is shifting its longitude and latitude to fix a discrepancy with global satellite navigation systems. Government body Geoscience Australia is updating the Geocentric Datum of Australia, the country's national coordinate system, to bring it in line with international data.
The reason Australia is slightly out of whack with global systems is that the country moves about 7 centimetres (2.75 inches) per year due to the shifting of tectonic plates.
Since 1994, when the data was last recorded, that's added up to a misalignment of about a metre and a half.
Source: CNet
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @12:54AM
The penal colony longs to be back with their masters in Europe - you see, they are too good for dirty Asians like their neighboring Indonesia - so it's dragging their island off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @01:00AM
Actually it is moving closer to indonesia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @04:29AM
We're still heading North. If they don't get out of the way, we'll just run them over. Bloody asian drivers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:16AM
200 million Indonesian Muslims coming at ya. You had it coming.