The picture below was taken from the comfort of the galley, looking at the ceremonial and geographic South Pole. As far as the grid goes, you are looking NNE (Hint: it all looks the same away from the station!)
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Looking North
It's sort of a joke around here that if someone asks you where something is, you say "it's just north of here." From The Pole, EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE is north from here. For navigational purposes we refer to a grid where the converging lines of longitude define what is east or west.
The picture below was taken from the comfort of the galley, looking at the ceremonial and geographic South Pole. As far as the grid goes, you are looking NNE (Hint: it all looks the same away from the station!)
The picture below was taken from the comfort of the galley, looking at the ceremonial and geographic South Pole. As far as the grid goes, you are looking NNE (Hint: it all looks the same away from the station!)
