Wrong Locations when importing photos

I'd be grateful if some could help with this.
I used an app on my iPhone called GeoTag Photos to add geotag my photos (obviously!)
I've just upgraded to iPhoto 11 and imported some photos that have been geotagged. I used EXIF Viewer to check the tags and they are correct. An example of one (in Manchester, UK) is:
Latitude: N 53° 27' 53.60
Longitude: W 2° 15' 23.90
However, when I import this photo into iPhoto 11, it appears in the middle of the North Sea! It looks like it's changing West to East.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

Here's my theory on the Wise River thing, which happened to about 100 of my photos. The concept of place in iPhoto 9.0 is a circle on the map, specified by the GPS coordinates of the center and the radius of the circle. Looking at Wise River on a map of the world, I noticed that it appears to be the center of the smallest circle containing the continent of North America. I speculate that when iPhoto imports a photo with GPS data it assigns a place to the photo if it can, and if the preferences are set to have it look up places automatically then it looks for a place in its online database of places. I think that database has a place called "North America", and that the algorithm for assigning places to GPS data sometimes can't do any better than assigning North America as the place of the photo (either through a fault in the algorithm or missing data in the places database).
Now here's where the trouble starts. iPhoto does not actually change the GPS data in a photo when it imports it, it just assigns a place to the photo based on that data (I've checked this). However, if you later edit the definition of a place (by changing the coordinates or the radius in the Manage My Places window), it sets the GPS coordinates of all photos tagged with that place to the GPS coordinates of the center of the place. (I've checked this too.) Mostly this would seem a good idea: if you have a place called "Grandma's House" and you discover you've located it incorrectly on the map and want to move it, you want it to bring all the photos in Grandma's House with it. But my guess is that somehow this behavior was invoked for photos tagged as being in North America, either when the library was upgraded or because someone at Apple was fiddling with the database.

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