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If you made a map of magnetic field lines at Melbourne in Australia, would the lines seem to go into the ground or come out of the ground ?

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As Melbourne is situated in Southern hemisphere where north pole of earth's magnetic field lies, therefore, magnetic lines of foece seem to come out of the ground.
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