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Old 05-03-2007, 11:27 AM
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Yes rot started very much longer ago and then the false facade of might collapsed for the reason I mentioned.

Ah Karl48 I wrote a piece on another astronomy forum about that which you just wrote.

I can't agree North Pole is actually South Pole but I can say this the North Pole is due to earlier Europeans in the North of our World having invented the magnetic compass and found the needle point 'up'.

In their life up was 'north'.

And of course that led to East being right on maps and West being left with South being down below.

I suppose if it was invented in say Australia and the needle pointed south (South Magnetic Pole) then North would be opposite today's definition.

In any event when the poles flip North will be South.