If you stand at the South Pole and walk in any direction, you'd be walking north, wouldn't you? So how do people in Antarctica read a map or give directions? Minnesotastan looked it up, and the answer is: they throw out the directions from the globe and make up a system. The continent is labeled with "East Antarctica" and "West Antarctica" in this map, but of course you must go south to get to either. There are actually two conventions for mapping the continent, as you'll read in this post at TYWKIWDBI. Link
If you stand at the South Pole and walk in any direction, you'd be walking north, wouldn't you? So how do people in Antarctica read a map or give directions? Minnesotastan looked it up, and the answer is: they throw out the directions from the globe and make up a system. The continent is labeled with "East Antarctica" and "West Antarctica" in this map, but of course you must go south to get to either. There are actually two conventions for mapping the continent, as you'll read in this post at TYWKIWDBI. Link
"The continent is labeled with “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica” in this map, but of course you must go south to get to either."
but of course you must go NORTH to get to either.
Nice post. I think I have some friends that do the same, only locally.
Personally if I had south I would end up between East and West Antarctica, but once I stopped heading south I would then head north to either.
The Nature of Existence Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrkqC-xlf-Q&feature=channel_video_title
I think what the writer meant, however, was "you must go south to get to either (from the other one.)"