While North and South meet at the poles, why do East and West not similarly converge?

Question

Both the north and south poles can be reached by beginning travel in the opposite direction. If you continue straight travel north long enough, you pass the pole and begin to go south.
Why then, cannot one's determined travel eastwards eventually
become westward?

Answer 1

because the Earth spins on the north/south axis; not east-west. (actually it's tilted 23 degrees, but the poles are still at the top and bottom).

Answer 2

To my belief, East meets West at the International Date Line, which stretches from the North to South Poles. However, globally speaking, East is considered Europe, Africa, North and South America eastward including Hawaii to the International Date Line, and West is considered as Asia and Australia westward to the International Date Line.

Answer 3

Simply, there are no East ot West poles. At the North pole, all directions are south. But that is because of how we choose to define the cardinal directions. If the Earth did not spin, you could say one point is 'absolute East" or the "East Pole." But, because that point would be Absolute West or the West Pole 12 hours later, that definition fails.

Answer 4

Yes, at 0 degrees latitude in Greenich England.

Answer 5

Such are the strange results you get trying to draw a square grid of lines on a curved surface.

Answer 6

because they are chasing each other around the globe