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I saw an experiment in a small ramshackle museum in Ecuador on the equator. There was a sink on a stand. When it was placed a metre on one side of the equator the water circled clockwise as it drained, one metre on the other side the water drained anti-clockwise and when directly over the equator the water drained, straight down, with no rotation.
Legend has it that if you have a bath/tub/basin/sink full of water and you pull the plug and let the water go down the plughole into the drain, then if you are at any place South of the equator, the water will rotate in a vortex as it goes down the plughole in a clockwise direction, whereas if you are located anywhere North of the equator, then the ...