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A plotting compass is used to detect which direction the North Pole is located. You can stand in any position and it will always point north.

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That's a navigation compass. A plotting compass will indeed point to the Earth's Magnetic North Pole (not the axis pole), if not influenced by any other magnet; but its purpose is in plotting the magnetic field around a magnet.

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