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The Magnetic North Pole wanders, but slowly enough that a simple compass remains useful for navigation.
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Magnetic and North
The Earth's North Magnetic Pole ( currently in the Arctic Ocean, north of Canada ) is physically a south pole, as it attracts the north pole of a compass.
In May 1945 an RAF Lancaster of the Aries expedition became the first Commonwealth aircraft to overfly the North Geographic and North Magnetic Poles.
Remember too, that bearings and direction are given / recorded with respect to True North and to Magnetic North.
** North Magnetic Pole, the shifting point on the Earth to which the " north " end of a dipole magnet points
The north pole of a magnet is the pole that, when the magnet is freely suspended, points towards the Earth's North Magnetic Pole which is located in northern Canada.
Since opposite poles ( north and south ) attract, the Earth's " North Magnetic Pole " is thus actually the south pole of the Earth's magnetic field.
In 2012, the Magnetic Fields celebrated its new album by launching a North American and European tour.
It is straight down at the North Magnetic Pole and rotates upwards as the latitude decreases until it is horizontal () at the magnetic equator.
The inclination of the Earth's field is 90 ° at the North Magnetic Pole and-90 ° at the South Magnetic Pole.
They can migrate rapidly: movements of up to km per year have been observed for the North Magnetic Pole.
Over the last 180 years, the North Magnetic Pole has been migrating northwestward, from Cape Adelaide in the Boothia peninsula in 1831 to 600 km from Resolute Bay in 2001.
They were also to attempt to establish the location of the Earth's North Magnetic Pole, then believed to lie somewhere along the western shore of Baffin Bay.
* Barrow's Boys-Fergus Fleming ( 1998 ) " For 30 years beginning 1816, the British Admiralty's John Barrow and his elite team charted large areas of the Arctic, discovered the North Magnetic Pole, were the first to see volcanoes in the Antarctic, crossed the Sahara to find Timbuktu and the mouth of the Niger-John Ross, John Franklin, William Edward Parry and others.
In 2012, music review website You Aren't Cool called Magnetic North ' both the best and most underrated album Hopesfall released and one of the best slabs of 00's post-hardcore ever made.
The track " Saskatchewan " was originally intended for inclusion on Magnetic North, following the album's title track, but was cut from all releases without the band consenting.
If the ancient magnetic field were oriented similar to today's field ( North Magnetic Pole near the North Rotational Pole ), the strata would retain a normal polarity.
Magnetic and Pole
East Antarctica is the larger part of the continent, both the South Magnetic Pole and geographic South Pole are situated here.
** South Magnetic Pole, the shifting point on the Earth to which the " south " end of a dipole magnet points
Shackleton's original plans had envisaged using the old Discovery base in McMurdo Sound to launch his attempts on the South Pole and South Magnetic Pole.
The expedition's other main accomplishments included the first ascent of Mount Erebus, and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole, reached on 16 January 1909 by Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, and Alistair Mackay.
Magnetic and wanders
Magnetic and slowly
* DDRs are slowly replacing Consumer: Magnetic tape based DV, Digital8, 8mm Video Format, VHS and MicroMV video tape recorders.
Magnetic and enough
However, the Doctor learns that the old shaft leads to a convergence point between the North and South Magnetic Poles and deduces that, if the bomb were deflected down this path, the explosion's magnetic energy would be powerful enough to suck the metal Daleks into the core of the Earth.
While looking for Magneto, Logan is contacted by Professor X stating that the Magnetic Flux Limiter Collar on him has suppressed Magneto's magnetic powers long enough for him to become more powerful.
Magnetic and simple
Magnetic induction ( for example, in a transformer ) can be seen a very simple model of this type of near-field electromagnetic interaction.
Magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) is more sensitive than simple X-ray in the detection of lytic lesions, and may supersede skeletal survey, especially when vertebral disease is suspected.
Magnetic declination has a very important influence on air navigation, since the most simple aircraft navigation instruments are designed to determine headings by locating magnetic north through the use of a compass or similar magnetic device.
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