This post came up on my Facebook this morning.
Can someone help me here. In a FE discussion at a dinner party (not always a wise idea

) someone who is a CSIRO scientist asked me to explain how when viewing a FE map, to circumnavigate antarctica you would reach the ice and turn to port (left) and keep turning to port with the ice on your starboard (right hand) side for a very very very long distance.
However he says he has been on a ship that went around antarctica, they kept the ice on their right (same) but they kept turning to starboard (the right) all the way back to the starting point which was South of Tasmania.
I was a bit out of my depth on how to rebutt this. Can anyone explain in clear English with no links or images so I can recreate it?
That is a really good point, if the Earth was flat and you kept the ice to your right, you should be constantly turning left, but that doesn't happen.
On a globe Earth you would constantly turn right, which is what happens.