Archive for April, 2007

Google Earth places Chilean Village in Argentina

SANTIAGO - Chile is angry with Google Earth, because on the satellite picture program, the Chilean village Villa o Higgins has been placed on the Argentinian side of the border. A spokesman of the Chilean government said this last Saturday, and asked Google Earth to correct is in demand wrongly. Villa o Higgins lies approximately 1600 kilometers at south of the Chilean capital Santiago in the south keel.

The south keel has been divided in an Argentinian and Chilean part. The border runs by a savage landscape of islands, mounts and fjords. At the end of the seventies, the two countries touched almost with each other in war because of a brawl concerning the sovereignty of some islands.

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