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if your in the southern hemi, which way does a compass point?

Originally posted by: bonkers325
be sure to go to one of those hotels that has the toilet motor that makes the water spin "the american way"
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Yup. Everything has to have the american's spin on things.
 
More interesting question (yes I know the answer): if you are at or near the geographic north poll, which direction does the compass point?
 
Originally posted by: dullard
More interesting question (yes I know the answer): if you are at or near the geographic north poll, which direction does the compass point?
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It points towards Greenland.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
More interesting question (yes I know the answer): if you are at or near the geographic north poll, which direction does the compass point?
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it'll go haywire and spin around, making it useless. near the poles, you need a gyrocompass (or GPS, if that's more to your liking)
 
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
it'll go haywire and spin around, making it useless. near the poles, you need a gyrocompass (or GPS, if that's more to your liking)
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Magnetic north pole is not the north pole. Thus it'll point to the magnetic north pole. One of many links.

"Initially, people believed that the North Magnetic Pole coincided with the north geographic pole. Magnetic observations made by explorers in subsequent decades showed that this was not true, and by the early nineteenth century, the accumulated observations proved that the magnetic pole must be somewhere in Arctic Canada.

They determined that the average position of the North Magnetic Pole in 1994 was located on the Noice Peninsula, southwest Ellef Ringnes Island, at 78.3 degrees North, 104.0 minutes West."
 
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: bonkers325
be sure to go to one of those hotels that has the toilet motor that makes the water spin "the american way"
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you're joking right?
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i assume you've never watched the Simpsons then

Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
it'll go haywire and spin around, making it useless. near the poles, you need a gyrocompass (or GPS, if that's more to your liking)
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Magnetic north pole is not the north pole. Thus it'll point to the magnetic north pole. One of many links.

"Initially, people believed that the North Magnetic Pole coincided with the north geographic pole. Magnetic observations made by explorers in subsequent decades showed that this was not true, and by the early nineteenth century, the accumulated observations proved that the magnetic pole must be somewhere in Arctic Canada.

They determined that the average position of the North Magnetic Pole in 1994 was located on the Noice Peninsula, southwest Ellef Ringnes Island, at 78.3 degrees North, 104.0 minutes West."
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QFT

edit: the magnetic poles are different every year. magnetic north in 1994 is different from magnetic north in 2004, etc.
 
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