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Subj: Re: Which Way the Sun ?
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VK2AAB Opined with considerable skill:-
> It is interesting how fixed in our mind are some features of the world around
> us.
>
> Years ago, before I had visited the northern hemisphere, at work a visitor
> from the UK got lost in Sydney because he knew that Circular Quay was to the
> north of the CBD. So he put the sun at his back intending to walk to Circular
> Quay. He ended up at Central Station, totally confused because there was no
> harbour there.
>
> This caused much amusement in the computer class he was teaching. However
> when I did visit the UK a few years later I found it to be a very significant
> phenomena. Walking around London (when the sun was out) required significant
> effort to ignore the sun position. It needed regular concious thought.
Walking around? I will confess to actually driving around London (and
many other large towns around Europe) at times using the sun's position
for guidance ;-)
I used to do a considerable amount of driving in strange (to me) towns
and found it invaluable to know in generally which direction of the
compass I wanted to go plus the rough angle of the sun (or moon or
stars). It is very easy to become disorientated in town centres and
loose your way, to end up going back out the same way you came in. I
found it a useful check to be able to glance up at the sky as a double
check to make sure I was going in roughly the right direction.
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