Where is the True North Pole?
Is it in the Arctic Ocean? In Canada? Russia? MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Physics...
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The north pole is the top of the earth, and the south pole is the bottom, of course...except that the earth is kind of a ball, and they don't really have tops and bottoms. Granted,the earth isn't exactly spherical and it's spinning through space - spinning about animaginary axis of rotation. One of the points where that axis goes through the earth, righthere in the arctic ocean, where the Russians planted their flag on the sea floor in 2007,is called the north pole... or rather, it's the "geographic" north pole. Because, justlike there are different definitions for what a "year" is, there are different north poles.For example, compasses don't point to the geographic, or spinning-top, north pole....
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The north pole is the top of the earth, and the south pole is the bottom, of course...except that the earth is kind of a ball, and they don't really have tops and bottoms. Granted,the earth isn't exactly spherical and it's spinning through space - spinning about animaginary axis of rotation. One of the points where that axis goes through the earth, righthere in the arctic ocean, where the Russians planted their flag on the sea floor in 2007,is called the north pole... or rather, it's the "geographic" north pole. Because, justlike there are different definitions for what a "year" is, there are different north poles.For example, compasses don't point to the geographic, or spinning-top, north pole....
