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what is north? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (6 children)

"Just north of Antarctica" is still not helpful at all though. Even a hemisphere would narrow it down more.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just north of Antarctica in the southern hemisphere.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Listen here you little shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes! Divided by the prime meridian and the antimeridian. That's a good question, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That feels wrong though. First of all the prime meridian is completely arbitrary (as opposed to the equator), and in some parts of the world like Japan and New Zealand the "western" hemisphere would actually be closest towards the east.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

It is arbitrary! England declared themselves the center of the world, and everyone else went with it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The peninsula is considered the north side. So the location of the shipwreck is south of South America.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

the peninsula is considered the north side

look at the peninsula

it's on the west side

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're looking at it from the South Pole, so there is no West, only North.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well sure, and I get that, but the map we're looking at clearly has a W-E line marked, presumably on the prime meridian. It's pretty westerly in that regard which seems like a pretty sensible perspective to me on how to navigate at the south pole.

If you handed me this map and told me to go North I would go to Dronning Maud Land.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Hey it's just south of Orkney. Small world.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It literally says beneath the Weddell sea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But where is the Weddell sea?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

Just north of Antarctica

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's wrapped around by that peninsula that juts toward(ish) the Andes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah... probably "between Antarctica and the South Atlantic" would be the best reference here.

[Now it's probably not the time for me to ramble on how the Atlantic should be considered two oceans instead of one, right?]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The location is being kept secret to prevent looting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It is helpful in that it gives an idea of what sort of waters it sank at. Being close to Antarctica my mind immediately goes to heavy seas with cold weather.