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a North Pole is the point at the top of the world on which the axis of the earth turns. A straight line drawn from it into the earth’s center, then out again to the equator, forms a right angle, or 90 degrees, so if you stand exactly at the North Pole you are at lati- tude 90° north. You can bounce a signal from a global positioning device off a network of satellites in outer space to confirm it. But if you anreee again after remaining in the same spot only a few minutes, you will be at a different latitude. The North Pole has not moved; the ice on which you are standing has drifted. In 1874, the leader of a pynive! Anon explorers discovered that after walking for two months they had traveled only nine miles. They were going south, trying to save theyiselves, on ice that was THE NORTH POLE ing cS trai eoeo oo. a8 Wrangle Island Se RUSSIA Norther Pole of Inaccessibility (FF _ Magnetic North Pole ee ee Ringnes island THE NORTH POLE CANADA ans Elhlaess mBerLe I sland 2 NaresS trait 2 a Ay * aos Sound 8 ctah porte Cape York Geomagnetic Tichaya + Pole Cape ey Harmsworth Ry. Cape Flora White Island Victoria Island 4 Baffin Bay GREENLAND L %wh t 7 aoone sY.eO Y Sveagruva NOVAYA ZEMLYA \ Spitsbergen “ Barents Sea ; ( ° rae! Bear Island ; RUSSIA ataesness Vardo Murmansk Summer border of the pack ice. in winter, pack ice Covers NORWAY nearly the entire map area. # Jan Mayen > os 7 “Katha?m ercy) sie. hae if ae — “a : Crnwn Pow Pi 37) Praricisc: oa—e an Py qs ee in a _
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