I did understand your instructions as two different means to get to the same end. Thus:
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... Start at the South Pole.
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Okay: 1 mi north - 1 mi east - 1 mi south takes me from the pole along the sides of a triangle back to the pole. I can't go east at all from the pole, just north (the poles being the only two places with only a single point on the compass to go to
). So this can't be the place, since I'd be 1 mi away from the pole where I started -- stipulated I could follow your second instruction to go east...
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... You can also start anywhere on a circle about 2km from the north pole (south-rotating pole). Oh - you cannot use a compass there either. But go north from anywhere on that circle and the next instruction will take you right around the pole.
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Huh? Go north -> I'd reach the pole / go east - impossible, you can only go south, so where to now...
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... (... and penguins have been released into the arctic as early as 1935. I understand the national zoo in Norway has penguins in captivity. Also the Awk is sometimes called the "arctic penguin".)
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Okayokay, I meant natural habitat...
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... A half-mile south of the equator?? You would surely end up on the same parralell, but a mile from where you started.
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Yes, those were your instructions. Go there either along three sides of a square or directly along the fourth, both will bring you to the same corner of the square...
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... It would, indeed, satisfy the conditions of the first remark.
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I do get the feeling, that here is some misunderstanding, but I can't make out where.
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