true south
Americannoun
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We picked the diagram for Moab's 38-degree northern latitude and put it under the plexiglass dome, making sure it was level and facing true south.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2012
The same is not true south of the border.
From Time Magazine Archive
Goos painted the answer: "true south, 40 west, 360 miles, Terceira, Azores."
From Time Magazine Archive
And at least we can tell true south from the stars.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Bowen, Robert Sydney
The new course was more toward the true south than the east, and was calculated to head off the reaching arm of ice which threatened to close Lancaster Sound.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
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