Packet 7: Bonus 3

This place, which is at the center of the Peirce Quincuncial (“quin-CUN-shull”) projection, projects as a straight line like its austral counterpart on the Winkel Tripel. For 10 points each:
[10e] What place’s true geographic location is distinct from its labile magnetic and geomagnetic locations, the latter of which is now located on Ellesmere Island?
ANSWER: North Pole [accept geographic North Pole or true North Pole or terrestrial North Pole; prompt on poles]
[10m] On the UN flag, the North Pole is at the center of one of these projections named for an Arabic-derived term for the angle between true north and a given point. Flat Earthers use one of these direction-preserving projections as a map of Earth and the Antarctic ice wall.
ANSWER: azimuthal projections [accept azimuthal equidistant projections; accept azimuth]
[10h] The closest land to the North Pole is this tiny island east of Peary Land’s Cape Morris Jesup. Even if this island were larger, the Mercator projection’s distortion of Greenland would push it off the edge of many maps.
ANSWER: Kaffeklubben Island [or Coffee Club Island; or Qeqertaat]
<Editors, Geography> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2114.76100%48%0%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaUCF1010020EM
Columbia ACambridge100010E
Columbia BMaryland A100010E
CornellMIT100010E
Georgia Tech BUCLA1010020EM
HarvardWashU1010020EM
Illinois ABrown100010E
IndianaNYU B1010020EM
Johns HopkinsStanford B1010020EM
MichiganChicago B100010E
North CarolinaVirginia100010E
Northwestern AGeorgia Tech C1010020EM
Northwestern BNYU A1010020EM
Ohio StateSwarthmore100010E
PittsburghWaterloo100010E
PurdueMaryland B100010E
Stanford AToronto B1010020EM
TexasChicago A1010020EM
Toronto APenn State100010E
UC Berkeley BVanderbilt1010020EM
Virginia TechMinnesota100010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2114.76100%48%0%