
From the Vault: Pacific Navigation, Part 3
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Direction Finding Techniques and Expanded Target Landfall
On average, land can usually be detected from about 30 miles in any direction. If we draw circles with 30 miles radii round each pacific island, find that the circles overlap over vast areas giving rise to solid blocks of islands separated by not more than 60 miles. With these expanded target landfall techniques, the problem of finding these tiny islands in the vast ocean is much more manageable.
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