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Near the poles, both magnetic compasses and gyrocompasses become increasingly inaccurate due to the converging of the earth's magnetic field and lines of longitude. Before the advent of electronic navigation aids, pilots operating at these high latitudes relied on specialized instruments like the Astrocompass, which uses the position of various celestial objects to determine the bearing of True North.
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