A sailor takes a sighting of polaris what is measure his elevation angle to be only one degree?

Question

A sailor takes a sighting of polaris, using his sextant and measures its elevation angle ( the angle above the sailor's horizon) to be only one degree.

a) the sailor is probably wearing a heavy parka.

b) the sailor must be near Antartica

c) you cannot determine what this sailor

Answer 1

Guitarra, please make inteligent cuestions, one degree from what? Zenith? Horizont?

Answer 2

If Polaris is one degree above the horizon, the sailor must be very near the Equator, in the middle of the tropics.