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Re: [Phys-l] polar grid navigation



Thanks for pointing this out, Mike.
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At 9:58 AM -0500 2/15/12, Edmiston, Mike wrote:
So... after all the messages posted on this list-serv ridiculing the news reports... it turns out the news reports were correct. If you use the pseudo grid for Antarctica that navigators and scientists in Antarctica are known to use (where grid north aligns with the prime meridian), then Lake Vostok is indeed southeast of the south pole. Actually I would call it "east southeast".

If you Google "Antarctica map" you can find quite a few jpg images of maps of Antarctica. Many of them are gridded as Hugh Haskell described. On these gridded maps Lake Vostok is indeed east southeast of the south pole. The news folks didn't make those maps. The scientists and navigators and geographers made those maps.

Here is one such map... http://geology.com/world/antarctica-map.jpg and it shows Lake Vostok.

Michael D. Edmiston, PhD.