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- Subject: Re: HP Monitor models
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.025253.23651@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:45:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.201232.23942@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
- >taft@adobe.com (Ed Taft) writes:
- >:
- >: I'm told there are some places on earth where the variation is greater
- >: than 90 degrees. That is, a magnetic compass indicates north as being
- >: in a southerly direction. This is true not only at the North Pole but
- >: in some other places (southeast Asia?) where the earth's magnetic field
- >: has weird bends in it.
-
- >Don't need wierd bends. It is true for quite a large area of Canada in
- >the vicinity of Hudson's Bay (where the magnetic north pole is located).
-
- >There variations of 90 degrees or greater are standard. It is possible
- >to have a 180 degree variation, if you are on a line directly north of
- >the magnetic north pole.
-
- Also for spots south of the south magnetic pole, so there would be spots in
- Antarctica where the compass would be 180 degrees off, and much of the rest
- would be >90 degrees.
-
- Also anywhere there are large magnetite (magnetic iron ore) deposits the
- compasses ought to be mighty confused.
-
- BTW, the Earth's north magnetic pole is actually a magnetic south pole.
- Don't believe me? Think of how magnets work for a second...
-
- -Mike
-