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As you all know the earth is a giant magnet. As a giant magnet antarctica would be the north or south pole of that magnet?
@freemo I'm guessing south since polarity was probably defined from maps and historical scientists would have probably made it intuitive to understand.
@Demosthenes well you would be correct that maps ultimately led to how we defined magnetic poles... answer me this ifi stick a magnet in some water and make it float and basically create a compass the north pole of the magnet points where? And yea feel free to use the logic that anctient scientists would have defined the poles of a magnet based off the idea of north on a map already.
@Demosthenes other way around, but your instinct is right at least that the poles of the earth and the poles of a magnet disagree.. its just its the earth that is backwards not the magnet.
@freemo my guess would be that the north pole of the magnet would point south.