[TruthConquers]

This link will take you to a file that show the movement of the magnetic lines from 1590 to 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Magnetic_Field_Declination_from_1590_to_1990.gif

Very interesting!

[abbyg55]

Wow, that’s really something! I had no idea the magnetic field has been in a constant state of flux.

[Noob1999]

.................... movement of the magnetic lines from 1590 to 1990.....................

Now I wonder how they came up with the magnetic lines since 1590??
The chronometer was not available until the 1700’s, so a mariner had no way to pinpoint where he was on the earth’s surface in an east/west direction.