Timeline for How do you know you have reached North or South Pole without GPS?
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| Jan 15, 2019 at 11:15 | comment | added | Reversed Engineer | @Bruce: Night is six months long at the pole, the worst time to explore it :) I don't know if either film or digital cameras will work in the super cold at night (i.e. in winter) at a pole | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 10:06 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | To clarify kubanczyk's comment: The poles are the lands of the midnight sun. If there are any stars visible, that means it is winter; you really don't want to walk to the South Pole in winter. | |
| Jan 13, 2019 at 16:42 | comment | added | kubanczyk | All pre-GPS expeditions tried hard to be outta there before night. | |
| Jan 13, 2019 at 14:09 | comment | added | Patrick Wallace | A comment on Mark's answer (above). An arcsecond corresponds to about 100 feet at the Earth's surface, not 300 meters. But his point is perfectly valid of course. | |
| Jan 13, 2019 at 7:14 | comment | added | Mark | In theory, this would work. In practice, an error of just one second of arc in aiming your camera upwards will result in an error of more than 300 meters in position. Sextants are designed for high-precision aiming; camera tripods aren't. | |
| Jan 13, 2019 at 6:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 13, 2019 at 6:15 | history | answered | Bruce | CC BY-SA 4.0 |