Posted on 06/19/2016 3:08:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
When I should have said N/E...LOL
We had to pace measured distances, and make turns using our compass in Scout Camp, to determine the correct target in the compass course.
That, and some surveying and engineering inculcated those Northerly biases.
Or maybe just N?????
On a side note.
Does a traditional compass still point “North” when you are standing on the south pole?
Or does it just spin around endlessly?
But north would be in any direction. For example, how would one describe a specific direction if one did not use N/W or N/E?
I believe one would have to step away from the S pole marker to be able to accurately use specific directional terms such as N/E etc.
I don’t know, but I would not want to trust one.
Compass points to Magnetic North, which is shifting, and is not located at the North Pole.
I remember reading of one of the South Pole explorations (forgot which one) had trouble, and had to get back to help.
The navigator got them to an island, and they got rescued. Difficult navigation with sextant, etc., due to being down there at the bottom of the sphere. I think there was no loss of life.
I actually got to see the Fram ship, used for some of those Polar expeditions (probably not the one related to the rescue).
Don’t know why these cold polar expeditions are so interesting to me. Maybe due to shoveling snow, getting car unstuck from cold and icey sliding off the road, and hiking with friends through deep snow, just for a Saturday hike (cold, wet, dark, ... and we have to go back through it to get home).
Agree
Would have to use Lat/Long as a target, to be precise, I think.
Prayers for all involved.
If you are at the Amundsen-Scott Station would not all positions be north of you? SE wouldn’t describe any point.
See #26 and 27
On another side note.
Some people, mostly men, have a sense of direction. I mean, they/we somehow know what is north.
For us older men that have actually looked at a map, on paper, it is always oriented with North at the top. Always.
Today’s navigation systems are most often used by people that are more comfortable with a “Perspective” view.
They lose all sense of direction.
I just spoke with someone that was trying to conduct a Military training exercise with a number of recruits. The recruits asked if they could buy a $200 GPS navigation system to complete their task. The request went up the chain of command and their advocate had to tell the brass that they simply don’t know how to read a map.
Vostok site set a new record last week or recently for lowest recorded temp...-80.3 degrees if I remember reading that correctly.
Gonna be quite a ride. Prayers for all involved.
As went morse code so goes the compass sadly ....... not giving up my semaphore flags damnit !.....:o)
Squanto should know the value of “Smoke Signals”
That was the Ernest Shackleton expedition. Their ship Endurance got caught and crushed in the sea ice, they departed in three lifeboats to Elephant Island, from which they sent a single lifeboat to South Georgia Island, where they were able to locate help and eventual rescue of all. Every man was saved.
You are correct, one would have to choose the desired north.
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