Magnetic Variation

[William G Bithell]

Get your kid to show you the "Big Dipper"
and how you locate Polaris "The North Star"

Forget using a compass as it is thrown off by deviation and Variation
Which can easily add up to 25 degrees or more, off from true north.

GL, Bill




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