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Does anyone know how the navigators of the Nautilus made their way
underwater through the North Pole in 1958? They used an untried "Inertial
Navigation System". Did they simply set their heading to True North and
sail on that heading? There is a hint here, where the author says, "Have we
found some new and reliable method of navigating under the North Pole, where
all the lines of Longitude converge making Arctic navigation just about
impossible? Not that we know of!":
http://www.nautilus571.com/book_excerpt.htm
Mercator would have loved to have seen this chart image:
http://www.nautilus571.com/arctic-route.htm.
Jim Thompson
www.jimthompson.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Navigation Mailing List
> [mailto:]On Behalf Of Walter Guinon
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:24 AM
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> I believe that infinite time would be required to reach the pole while
> traveling along a loxodrome at finite speed.
> The heading angle after passing through the pole after the expiration of
> infinte time is a question for the theologians.
>
> > On a spheroidal earth, if you proceed on a rhumb line with
> constant speed,
> you will arrive at a pole after a finite time.
