Ekki alveg þannig….. Of course, there is something unusual about the way compasses in the area behave, but the explanation is a perfectly simple matter of geography. To understand it, one must first know why compasses do not always point North. True North, or the North Pole, is the convergence point in this hemisphere for the Earth's magnetic fields. But compass needles can point as much as 22 degrees away from the Pole, due to a massive ore deposit located near Hudson Bay, in Canada. This...