last I checked north was heading 360, 305 is actually closer to west.
anyone know where a magnetic heading of 305 would be true north?
not sure if it means anything, just didn't make sense when Sayid said they were heading north heading 305

last I checked north was heading 360, 305 is actually closer to west.
anyone know where a magnetic heading of 305 would be true north?
not sure if it means anything, just didn't make sense when Sayid said they were heading north heading 305

dont know how helpful to you this will be....



http://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse3.html

In the fin-de-siècle of the sixteenth century mariners believed that the magnetic north pole coincided with the geographic north pole. Any suggestion otherwise had been denied by Pedro de Medina.
Magnetic observations made by explorers in subsequent decades showed however that these suggestions were true. But it took until the early nineteenth century, to pinpoint the magnetic north pole somewhere in Arctic Canada (78° N , 104° W). From then on the angle between the true North and the Magnetic North could be precisely corrected for. This correction angle is called magnetic variation or declination.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e13/napalmsoup/lost/fig20.gif

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e13/napalmsoup/lost/fig19.gif

There was a problem with the compass readings on the island due to the magnet beneath the Swan. Was that neutralized with the distruction of the Swan? Could he have been reading the compass literally and not accurately?