MAGNETIC NORTH IS MIGRATING

Our planet’s northern magnetic pole is not only racing toward Siberia at about 34 miles per year, it has been to Antarctica several times in the last million years—and it’s due to flip again. This isn’t new to old-school mariners, but the concept is probably not so familiar to younger captains who are accustomed to GPS.

Increasingly, the compass is ignored, much like a dictionary on a bookshelf: one