North Pole Conundrum

[Shut Up Legs]

Bit heavy for hand luggage

As information repositories go, though, it may be low-tech, but at least it doesn't crash or get computer viruses.

 

[pawl]

Never trust Garmin.

 

[Illaveago]

It could be continental drift.


Regional.

 

[steveindenmark]

They did it so people like us can sit and discuss it many years after they have gone.

They did a good job.

 

[accountantpete]

"That's a typical shabby Nazi trick, you see the sort of people we're up against Wilson."

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It could be continental drift.

Regional.

I just had this vision of a Monty Pythonesque scenario in which the UK is uprooted, and sailed to warmer climes.

 

[Tanis8472]

I just had this vision of a Monty Pythonesque scenario in which the UK is uprooted, and sailed to warmer climes.

Yes please. I don't like the cold

 

[jefmcg]

You need to get a globe and a piece of string, and draw a circle from the stone to find likely candidates.

You can do that on Google maps. It provides a digital string you can pull around. That's how I worked out Japan was roughly the right distance from Lanarkshire.

As a bonus, because it uses a Mercator (I think) projection, you get the pleasure of watching the line bend as you move it to stick to the great circle.

 

[Beebo]

Write a letter to the local paper.
Someone will know the answer.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4989279, member: 9609"]Is it not the Rhumb line that does all that cool bending to find the shortest distance.[/QUOTE]
That's different (thank you Wikipedia)

Wikipedia can embed your selected notes in an image. Who knew?

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4989682, member: 9609"]I don't think either google maps or google earth are mercator maps, they are looking at the earth as a sphere. Hence the rhumb line appears as a curve; when it leaves the UK it is heading NE and when it arrives in Japan it is heading SE

or am I completely misunderstanding what you are trying to tell me? [/QUOTE]
Google earth is a sphere. Google maps is flat.

 

[Tim Hall]

The OP brought to mind this:

By Thompson and Craighead.

The sign shows the distance back to Here, the very same spot, when pointed on a North/South axis. 24,859 miles of course being the longitudinal diameter of Earth.

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 4988694, member: 9609"]I pass this marker every few weeks and it puzzles me, its only 2375 to the north pole, so why the obvious effort for something that is so wrong? is it from somewhere else, if so where ?
There is never anyone to ask but tonight I thought my luck was in with someone passing by, but he thought the sign must be right as it was carved in stone.

View attachment 377565 [/QUOTE]

Hmm.

It's 5,605 miles from Guder, Ethiopia to he North Pole
http://dateandtime.info/distancenorthpole.php?id=335733

It's 5,325km from my place to North Pole, New York

 

[Tin Pot]

It's 5,964 miles from Hong Kong to The North Pole, Greenwich

 

[Tin Pot]

North Pole to Phuket 5,662 miles