No wonder your readers sometimes seem to be geographically challenged when The Star itself doesn’t even get it right. You reported (1/23, A-4, “You can’t get there by taking 71 south”) that explorers made it on foot to the Pole of Inaccessibility, which you explained “lies some 540 miles northeast of the South Pole.”
Please correct your error and explain to your readers that there is no “northeast” from the South Pole. Rather, everywhere else on Earth — including the Pole of Inaccessibility — is due north of the South Pole.
To give us a sense of where the Pole of Inaccessibility is, you could helpfully say that it lies 540 miles from the South Pole in the direction of the Indian Ocean, or if you like, up Pakistan way (65.8 degrees east longitude).
John Belmont
Prairie Village
