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Finding the magnetic pole
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jan 22, 12:09 -0500
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jan 22, 12:09 -0500
Does anyone have information about the kind of equipment used to find the North/South magnet poles? I'm assuming that there's some kind of compass that has horizontal and vertical bearings, but I don't know where to find some examples of this sort of thing.
I know that Amundsen mapped out the N mag pole. Could this exercise have helped him on his journey to the S. pole, given that the S mag pole had only recently been found when he set out?
Thx
John H.
