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May 9, 2023 at 18:54 answer added Johannes Brodwall timeline score: 1
Dec 31, 2022 at 9:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackGIS/status/1609112149111996416
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Mar 24, 2011 at 21:03 comment added whuber Note that the physical width of the strip where a UTM zone maintains acceptable accuracy is constant. Towards the north and south, the strip covers ever wider ranges of longitude until, near the poles, any of the 60 UTM zones would be fine! Accordingly, there is a lot of flexibility to broaden the east-west ranges (in terms of longitude) of the zones used in extreme latitudes. That flexibility was not exercised in Antarctica (I wonder why ;-) but was used somewhat opportunistically to adapt some of the northern zones to political divisions, as explained in the replies.
Oct 15, 2010 at 21:48 answer added Jaime Soto timeline score: 12
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Oct 14, 2010 at 14:18
Oct 14, 2010 at 2:30 comment added Jaime Soto I don't blame you for guessing - I can't see a reason why UTM zones are so crazy in Norway. The rationale for extending the zones for convenience could have been applied in many other places.
Oct 14, 2010 at 0:54 comment added Matt Parker This is a wild guess based on almost no actual facts, but it's been so long since I've even been able to guess at answers here: Submarines. The Germans had tons of U-boats based in Norway during the Second World War.
Oct 14, 2010 at 0:42 answer added scw timeline score: 18
Oct 13, 2010 at 21:44 history asked Jaime Soto CC BY-SA 2.5