I had read on previous posts that airlines have been having to re-set the readings daily on their plane’s control panel as it is set to the north pole and it keeps shifting. And the Inuit tribes in Alaska who hunt seals, determine the fishing time on when a sunrise began between two mountains, but now the sunrise is miles further away? I tend to believe the north pole has shifted dramatically.
None of the above.
This is talking about magnetic north rather than the north pole of the Earth’s axis.
They’re pulling your leg. The magnetic North Pole is always moving and always at a different than the location of the Earth’s North Pole axis of rotation. The location of the sunrise is and sunset are governed by the location of the axis of rotation and not by the location of the magnetic North Pole. The location of the Earth’s North Pole axis is constantly changing slowly due to precession of the axis of rotation.
All of that is true.
just to keep the conversation on course...as airliners, fly into the high Arctic, they do not use a magnetic compass for directional guidance, and rather revert to so-called true headings, as derived for the aircraft guidance computer....this magnetic pole shift/movement is serious business....