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Observed pole positions taken from Newitt et al., "Location of the North Magnetic Pole in April 2007", Earth Planets Space, 61, 703–710, 2009
Modelled pole positions taken from the National Geophysical Data Center, "Wandering of the Geomagnetic Poles"

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@echo off
set PS=magpole2.ps
pscoast -Di -JE-90/90/10c -R-115/66/30/84r -Bxa20g10 -Bya10g5 -A150 -L-113/68/80/100 --MAP_POLAR_CAP=none --MAP_FRAME_TYPE=plain --MAP_FRAME_PEN=0.6p -G224/224/224 -W,130/130/130 -Swhite -K > %PS%
psxy NP.xy -J -R -O -K -Sc0.1c -G10/10/220 >> %PS%
psxy observations.txt -J -R -O -K -Sc0.23c -G240/117/104 -Wthick,0/0/0 >> %PS%
pstext -J -R -Dj0.15c/0.05c observations.txt -F+f11,Helvetica,60/0/0+j -O -K >> %PS%
pstext -J -R -Dj0.15c/0.05c modellabels.txt -F+f11,Helvetica,10/10/220+j+a -O -K >> %PS%
pstext -J -R legend.txt -F+f -O -K >> %PS%
psxy cities.txt -J -R -O -K -Sc0.1c -G0/0/0 >> %PS%
pstext -J -R cities.txt -F+f8,Helvetica,50/50/50+j -Dj0c/0.1c -O -K >> %PS%
pstext -J -R labels.txt -F+f10,Helvetica,50/50/50 -O >> %PS%
}}
}}

==observations.txt==
Observed pole positions taken from Newitt et al., "[http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS/pdf/2009/6106/61060703.pdf Location of the North Magnetic Pole in April 2007]", Earth Planets Space, 61, 703–710, 2009

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-120.72	83.95	LM 2007
-110.80	81.30	LM 2001
-104.0	78.30	LM 1994
-102.3	77.0	LM 1984
-100.6	76.0	LM 1973
-100.8	75.1	LM 1962
-100.9	73.9	LM 1948
-96.6	70.5	LM 1904
-96.9	70.1	LT 1831

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