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what is north? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [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.