we have north and south poles, but no east and west poles.
134511
It would have to be the line some call GMT\nor Universal time, Where time starts.
53830
Clearly your body has a magnetic field that many people do not have and this magnetism makes the compass point to you rather than magnetic north pole.
58370
It isn't explained because Islam came in 600 years ago and no one at that time had the idea that earth was round and what was the length of day and night at the poles.
13704
Actually our geographic north is south pole of our big earths magnet and similarly with south....\n\nActualy it is just a convention we can consider anything as north or south,..... similar to positive and negative chages.\n\nRecently scientists have found that the earth's polarity is changing, while this process is going on there will be a break down in our earth's protective magnetic field.\n\nSo cosmic radiations can through earth's atmos.....\n\nFor this stage to sttain there is around a 1000 years to go.
637439
You mean there is more to the world than the US and Canada?  I never would have guessed it.\n\nBy the way, the Western Hemisphere is almost entirely American... North, Central and South.  Buy a map and learn something.
2812
A point does not have a direction. So I guess the answer is yes.
42742
you'd be going north no matter what direction you steped in. But East and west do come into play when you step off the pole. If you were exactly on the south pole and was able to rotate yourself clockwise, you would be turning east. Counterclockwise, you are turning west. you walk away from the S. pole, you are going north. The further you get away from the pole, the larger the circumference of the circle where you can walk east or west.
130995
Normally, the sun would have a north and a south pole, just like we have on earth, but follow the link below for an extraordinary story of how the sun got two north poles(!) in March of the year 2000!!!!
518345
because they never went there, they only sent a probe up there
503539
There's no such place. Please check your atlas.
342246
The directional North pole of the earth is a magnetic south pole, this is because the north end of a compass points north, and opposites attract, therefore north is...south.\n\nMagnetic lines go from south to north i think, sorry havn't taken electricity/mag class in so long...\n\nanyways, if my thining is correct than it would point towards the directional south\n\ni'd choose "down"
23257
America was not "discovered" since it already inhabitants.
675063
They play 'go west...' because there is nothing to the east....
485990
In Canada there aren't any.
89948
Despite what the other people think, the South Pole has no polar bears.  If house is at the North Pole, which it must be if all the sides face south, then the bear will be a polar bear.  So White is its color.
658999
The reason nothing is sent out from earth up or down is rather simple, Nothing is within reach in those directions. For the most part the planetary system; the only thing we are able to explore at current technology level, is on a flat planer system due to the suns gravity force. Certainly the universe is tri-dimensional but it is A: very hard to depict in that way. and B: Impossible for us to study in terms of anything besides telescope observation.
54214
The magnetic field switches every 2000 yrs or so. Its due to switch soon. When it does, your compass will point to south instead of north.