The event comes as the magnetic north pole races towards Siberia from the Canadian Arctic.
Compasses in Greenwich, London, are about to point to the"true north" for the first time since 1660—when Charles II was on the throne and the first English settlers were setting about colonizing the Americas.But this is not what compasses are based on—they use the"The main magnetic field is created by the motion of the liquid iron outer core, deep in the centre of the Earth," Ciaran Beggan, from the British Geological Survey, told Newsweek.
For the last 360 years, compasses in London have pointed to the west of true north. Over the next two weeks, experts at the British Geological Survey say the two lines will match up at the Royal Greenwich Observatory—the home of the Prime Meridian line . Beggan said it is impossible to forecast how the magnetic field will change over the coming decades and centuries—and that the BGS is currently tracking the magnetic north pole using data from the European Space Agency and ground based observatories around the world.
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