poles {sm}

Positions of the south pole

Description

These data refer to positions of the south pole determined from the palaeomagnetic study of New Caledonian laterites.

The variables are:

Latitude

Longitude

The data were collected by Falvey and Musgrave. They are listed in Fisher, Lewis & Embleton (1987), Statistical Analysis of Spherical Data, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, dataset B1.