Piece of trivia: The "Geographic pole" actually wanders a bit, probably
mostly due to displacements of the mass of oceans and the atmosphere.I think
it's on the order of about 100 meters or so. Presumably, this has to be
accounted for in the calculations used by GPS
receivers.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_polar_wander
This doesn't have anything to do with the movement of the magnetic poles, BTW.
Jim Bell
On Saturday, May 12, 2018, 8:37:43 AM PDT, Georgi Guninski
<[email protected]> wrote:
is there place on earth where the sun doesn't rise from near east?
counterexample will be near the poles. there are two kinds of poles:
geographic pole and magnetic pole. it appears to depend how they are
placed: the middle of the line between them is a good candidate --
in this case exchanging them will swap directions.
