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British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,609 kilometres south of the north pole. But since then, the magnetic north has ...

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British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) south of the true North Pole. We now know that ...

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The magnetic north pole is on the move ... including complete polarity reversals where magnetic north and south poles flip. These reversals, which occur roughly once every million years, can ...

He got online, looked up job opportunities at the South Pole and applied ... and turned my bed into like a bit of a bed fort, like kids would do. The first week or so I would just turn on ...

While the magnetic north pole is on the move, the south magnetic pole is comparatively static. It’s moving northward, but at only about five to 10 kilometers per year, with hardly any movement ...