6 Dec
2003
6 Dec
'03
12:02 p.m.
The magnet on a Southern Hemisphere compass is inclined down from horizontal at it's south pole as opposed to down at the north pole in a Northern Hemisphere compass. The reason is that the earth's magnetic field emanates from below the surface at the poles and therefore has a vertical component nearer either pole. Dick MC Carpenter wrote:
what adjustment do you have to do to a compass that goes further south than the equator. Different that using a compass in the northern half of the world only?
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