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- 1. north according to the earth's axis, not magnetic north: "compass readings vary from 7.9° to 6.7° west of true north"
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Direction on Earth's surface
True north is the direction along Earth's surface towards the place where the imaginary rotational axis of the Earth intersects the surface of the Earth. That place is called the True North Pole. True south is the direction opposite to the true north. North per se is one of the cardinal directions, a system of naming orientations on the Earth. There are multiple ways of determining the North in di... Wikipedia