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   Shifting North Magnetic Pole Forces Unprecedented   
   Navigation Fix   
      
   By Alister Doyle, Reuters   
   gCaptain, gcaptain.com   
   Friday, January 11, 2019   
      
   Oslo, Jan 11 (Reuters) -- Rapid shifts in the Earth's north   
   magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an   
   unprecedented early update to a model that helps navigation   
   by ships, planes and submarines in the Arctic, scientists   
   said.   
      
   Compass needles point towards the north magnetic pole, a   
   point which has crept unpredictably from the coast of   
   northern Canada a century ago to the middle of the Arctic   
   Ocean, moving towards Russia.   
      
   "It's moving at about 50 km (30 miles) a year. It didn't   
   move much between 1900 and 1980 but it's really accelerated   
   in the past 40 years," Ciaran Beggan, of the British   
   Geological Survey in Edinburgh, told Reuters on Friday.   
      
   A five-year update of a World Magnetic Model was due in   
   2020 but the U.S. military requested an unprecedented early   
   review, he said. The BGS runs the model with the U.S.   
   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   https://gcaptain.com/shifting-north-magnetic-pole-forces-unprece   
   ented-navigation-fix/   
      
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