Explainer: what happens when magnetic north and true north align?
- Written by Paul Wilkes, Senior Research Geophysicist, CSIRO
Very rarely, depending on where you are in the world, your compass can actually point to true north.
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At some point in recent weeks, a once-in-a-lifetime event happened for people at Greenwich in the United Kingdom.
Magnetic compasses at the historic London area, known as the home of the Prime Meridian, were said to...
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