To: Tax-chick
"Shackleton's expedition ran short of supplies on its long ski trek to the South Pole from the northern Antarctic coast in 1907-1909 and turned back about 100 miles short of its goal." Is "northern" Antarctic coast redundant in the same sentence with South Pole as the reference?
yitbos
8 posted on
07/24/2010 5:30:15 PM PDT by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds.")
To: bruinbirdman
Is "northern" Antarctic coast redundant in the same sentence with South Pole as the reference? No matter how far south you go one side of the land mass is going to be the North side. The arctic, after all, has a southern coast.
19 posted on
07/24/2010 6:01:42 PM PDT by
calex59
To: bruinbirdman
"Shackleton's expedition ran short of supplies on its long ski trek to the South Pole...Nonsense. As any good Scotsman knows, you're not desperate until the Scotch runs out.
21 posted on
07/24/2010 6:05:45 PM PDT by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle scout since Sep 9, 1970)
To: bruinbirdman
LOL - I think it must be! Although there must be some east and west involved, somehow, once you get a bit away from the Pole.
26 posted on
07/24/2010 6:08:57 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("I hate other cultures. Everyone is rude and they never wash or use deodorant."~Anoreth)
To: bruinbirdman
Is "northern" Antarctic coast redundant in the same sentence with South Pole as the reference? I believe that by international agreement, for location and navigation purposes, the Greenwich meridian is arbitrarily assigned as North, and the other cardinal directions referenced to that.
64 posted on
07/24/2010 9:33:34 PM PDT by
Publius6961
("We don't want to hear words; we want action and results.")
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