Talk:North Pole

Very very cold!

polar land are always cold because the place is far away from the sun so there is not enofe sun hear. Santa does not live here!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.111.78.223 (talk) 01:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if I'm doing this right, but: 'instantaneous pole' is used in this article without being defined or linked to; I would link to it myself, but no such article exists. (and thus I have no idea what it means.)

Where are the editors??? "The North Pole, is very, very cold. It is just a giant piece of ice on top of the world" is just too colloquial! Kemet 13 Dec 2005.

• Fixed. You could have as well! (ESkog)^(Talk) 03:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't get this (unless there is some legerdemain involved, my compass points north, which is to the north of my current location--how can the pole to the north be a south pole?): Tokerboy

Magnetic pole

1. The north magnetic pole, being the magnetic pole of the Earth's magnetic field. It is so named due to its proximity to the geographic pole, but is in fact a south magnetic pole. (Either that, or every magnet is mislabelled. Magnetic opposites attract, and your magnet "N" points North!)

I saw on a Newton's Apple episode many years ago that what is called the north magnetic pole is in fact the south pole of the earth's magnetic field. This fact was later confirmed by one of my geology professors but I haven't been able to find a printed confirmation from a reputable source. A figure in one of my geology textbooks does show the lines of force for the earth's magnetic field go into the north magnetic pole as if it were actually the south pole of a magnet though. --mav

It was noticed that one end of bar magnets pointed northward long before the reason for this was understood. By convention, the end of the magnet that pointed toward the north was called the "north seeking pole", and over time this is shortened to "north pole". The north-seeking pole of the magnet is being attracted to the south-seeking pole of the earth (opposites poles attract) - which happens to be in the geographic north. Confusing, but there it is. And to make it worse, some magnets are labeled wrong.... -- Someone else 07:23 Dec 30, 2002 (UTC)

I'm quite upset that the article for Magnetic North Pole redirects to North Pole, while it lies close to the South Pole. The article are therefore flawed, and should be fixed. Funny, but upsetting, that the paragraph about Magnetic North Pole actually says it's the Magnetic South Pole. It's like having an article about the U.S., while describing Russia, and actually saying it's it describing Russia, but then what the hell it this description doing in an article about the US? The Magnetic North Pole is on the Southern Hemishere, all geology professors know this, it shouldn't be hard to find references for it.

http://physics.csustan.edu/EnergyAndMatter/Ian/Magnetism/Compass.htm http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebillb/miscon/miscon4.html#north

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.118.137.132 (talk) 23:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC).

Hm. Interesting. I just hope a magnetic pole shift happens soon to sort this all out. We are a couple hundred thousand years overdue. Just make sure you have plenty of sunscreen since the magnetosphere may not be able to protect us very well for some time afterward (but there is no evidence in the geologic record to suggest that mass extinctions occur during the transitions). --mav

I hope it's not as anticlimactic as the millenium...I'll have to order up some fireworks and some Biere de Miele to make the wait worthwhile.... :) --SE

It won't sort it out. The current situation is relatively simple. If the Earth's magnetic poles reverse, people will relabel their compasses so that they still point to geographic north. The confusion will be at least an order of magnitude larger :-)

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Can someone please explain what the difference is between the magnetic pole and the geomagnetic pole, because they seem exactly the same to me. -- Daran 17:45, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Belatedly, you get your wish.

Urhixidur 20:51, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

Astronomical north pole

We claim the following:

Astronomers define the north "geographic" pole of a planet in the solar system by the planetary pole that is in the same ecliptic hemisphere as the Earth's north pole.

This can't be right, because axial tilts greater than 90 degrees would be impossible. [NASA] defines north pole as follows here:

In astronomy, that end of the axis of rotation of a celestial body at which, when viewed from above, the body appears to rotate in a counter-clockwise direction.

This better matches what I thought the north pole was, and also explains why NASA would list the axial tilts of Uranus and Venus as 98 and 177 degrees, respectively. --Doradus 17:42, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

NASA can do as it wishes, but the [IAU] definition wins any time. Just goes to show you must be careful to define what you mean when you say something.

Urhixidur 20:22, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

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Canadian Sovereignty of the North Pole

Removed this......

Nevertheless, the North Pole of the Earth may be said to be located in Canada. However, recently, Russia and Denmark are poised to contest this point. In the mid-20th Century, Canada made an official claim to the pole; if no compelling opposition is presented by the mid-21st Century, the pole will officially be considered part of Canada.

The sector principle that Canada uses to claim waters to the north pole is very controversial. The United States in particular refuses to accept it and this.

Santa Claus

About to remove this bit:

In popular mythology, Santa Claus resides at the geographic North Pole. Canada Post has assigned postal code H0H 0H0 to the North Pole.

It doesn't really fit well with the rest of the article, unless there was enough other material for a proper section on "culture". The place for this information is in the Santa Claus article, but I note that in that article it actually says that "traditions vary".

80.229.160.150 06:57, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Dip poles

I just read* that "dip poles" are where the magnetic vector is vertical, and that there are many such points on the Earth. Our article states more than once that magnetic north is where the magnetic vector is vertical. I think our article must be wrong, but I'm not sure yet.

*A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. Ed. Ailsa Allaby and Michael Allaby. Oxford University Press, 1999. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. --Heron 17:17, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I suspect that the North and South magnetic poles are defined by fitting as multipole expansion to the magnetic field. The two primary poles would be along the axis of the dipole part. This can be researched in "The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac" [1] - not light reading, however. Pdn 05:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. After further reading, I think that the dictionary entry I quoted was too brief to be useful. It could have been trying to say that at any instant there is exactly one northern dip point, but that this point precesses diurnally and drifts on a longer timescale (as this article by a chap from the Canadian National Geomagnetism Program says). The GNP is apparently defined as the place at which the diurnal average dip is 90°. If this is true then it will save me from having to find out what a "multipole expansion" is ;-) --Heron 19:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Good luck, but you piqued my curiosity. I actually am pretty familiar with the reference I cited and gave them many errata for the next edition. That concept from the Canadians may do OK - it may be a matter of opinion, too, and there is confusion between "dip pole" and "dipole!" Be warned that there may be several places of 90 degree dip, and as the Earth field weakens, there may be more. See [2]. But in any case here are a couple of references: [3] [4] which says: "In mid 2002, the average position of the modeled north magnetic dip pole (according to the IGRF-2000 geomagnetic model) is 81.5° N, and 111.4° W, in the Canadian Arctic Ocean. This position is 950 kilometers (590 miles) from the true (geographic) north pole."

Also see [5]

To understand a dipole, you do not really have to go into "multipole expansions". For electricity, the simplest quantity is charge, but if you put two opposite charges near each other you get a dipole. It is an ideal dipole only in the limit that the charges tend to infinity and their separation to zero, because othewise if you look very close, you will see the field of each charge separately, and that's not part of the game. With magnetism, no one has ever found an isolated pole, so the simplest thing (that is known) is a dipole. An example dipole field is shown in [6] although it is messed up with a bar magnet in the middle. The shape of the field lines is correct, though they ought to continue nearer the core. It is hard to find a decent picture because everybody seemingly has played with bar magnets. The material (steel, Alnico or whatever) channels the field to it emerges mostly from two opposite poles, giving an odd shape: [7] That's totally screwed up (because two separated poles are shown). I am getting frustrated trying to find a decent diagram, but you can look at [8]. The upper diagram is wrong, but the lower one (with the black backgound) was evidently drawn from data or by an intelligent person, and it shows the right shape. Out far away, the field lines are distorted by the solar wind, but close to Earth, they are OK - note how much rounder they are than the wrong lines of force shown everywhere. AHA - eureka - NASA got it right: [9]

Anyway, the concept is to fit (approximate) the earth's magnetic field with a dipole field, and then take what is left over and describe it in a more complicated way. That's what I believe the professionals do and your dip poles defined that way will be more stable, as well as there being only one in the southern hemisphere, one north. Pdn 21:46, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for all that! Perhaps our article (particularly the Geomagnetic North Pole section) does contain enough detail, and is correct as far as it goes. --Heron 20:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Geographic North Pole

In the definition of the above, it states that as one moves away from the pole, one always travels southwards. Clearly this must be so, as the north pole is the earth's northernmost point. However, could it not also be said that one can travel westwards or eastwards from the pole into either the western or eastern hemisphere (defined by the intersection of the pole by the 0 & 180 degree meridians), albeit that there will be also a southwards ('downwards') direction of travel due to the earth's curvature towards the equator? Dillnutt

No, I wouldn't say that. Leaving the North Pole along a meridian, you always cross lines of constant latitude (parallels) at right-angles, so there is no east-west component to your motion, regardless of which hemisphere you enter. Your direction is pure south. However, your location after your first step would have a longitude associated with it. --Heron 20:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

You can see from the entry for polar motion that it is common to refer to motion east or west, etc: (to quote) "The slow westward drift, about 20 m since 1900, is partly due to motions in the Earth's core and mantle, and partly to the redistribution of water mass as the Greenland ice sheet melts, as well as to isostatic rebound, i.e. the slow rise of land that was formerly burdened with ice sheets or glaciers (Munk, 2002). The drift is roughly along the 80th meridian west, towards the eastern part of North America." In this case, the drift is of the geographic pole in relation to the rotational pole, so the "west" is defined in a system aligned with the latter and the displacement westward is plainly visible on the diagrams referenced in the polar motion article. I suppose that if the drift were along a different meridian one might have to specify the meridian, however. Pdn 23:58, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

I corrected the verb-noun agreement in the following sentence: There is no land at this location, which is usually covered by sea ice. The theory under which Canada has claimed sovereignty to the North Pole is controversial as there is in fact 770 km of ocean between the pole and Canada's northernmost land point...

Before it said "there are in fact 770 km of ocean..." The verb is supposed to agree with ocean (singular) not kilometers (plural). You wouldn't say there are three feet of space between here and there, you'd say there is three feet of space. Just picky, I know...[And to please our Canadian friends, I guess I should say "kilometres" not "kilometers" and "one meter" not "three feet"].

How long is the daylight

Folk lore claims that the North and South poles experience 6 months of day followed by 6 months of night, but a simple experiment with a torch and a globe seems to deny this. What is the true case?

Describe the experiment? Ojw 12:55, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

It's not folklore, it's fact. See the BBC Weather Centre [10] and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Academy [11], for example. Beware of simple experiments. --Heron 17:21, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

True - see here: Polar night. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 12:44, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Our "North" Pole is actually the South Pole

Field lines, representing the magnetic flux and created by a magnetic body, travel in a northward direction. This means for a magnetic body the direction to which the field lines are leaving the body represents the magnetic north pole of that body. Our Earth's field lines, if we are correct about the location of our present north pole, should be leaving at the top of our earth and entering where we know our south pole to exist. However, this is not the case. Our field lines actually enter at the location we know as the north pole and leave at the location we know as our south pole. This is would definitely mean, in magnetic terminology, that our north pole is actually a south pole and our south pole, the rightful north pole. Hence, why do we say the wrong thing?

Our article says that "the Earth's magnetic north is actually a south magnetic pole", which agrees with what you said and is correct. The reason for this is discussed on this talk page, above. --Heron 19:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

The old term for what we usually call the north pole of a magnet was "north-seeking pole"; the North Magnetic Pole of the earth is a "south-seeking pole" Moletrouser (talk) 09:26, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

question i've always wanted to ask

i know this is kinda stupid but what is the time at the north pole?

i say this as all the time-zones (i assume) meet at the north pole. so if u took a step to the other side of the pole, it may be 6 o'clock, but then u take a couple of steps in another direction, and its 1 o'clock.

Pratj 17:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Google for "what time is it at the north pole" and you will get as many answers as you want. This post says that "By convention, researchers and others who visit the North Pole tend to use Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)". --Heron 20:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

kk, thx.

Pratj 22:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Various problems with the section "Defining the North Pole of Earth"?

Before I start hacking this around, I'd like to run it past others.

• The article says "The Geographic North Pole, also known as True North, is the basis for the astronomic north pole, which is defined as the point at which the axis of rotation meets the surface of the earth..." I have never heard of the "astronomic north pole" (Google gives no hits other than Wikipedia.) Is there such a thing? I wonder if it is really talking about the Celestial North Pole, but then it's still wrong as this is certainly not "defined as the point at which the axis of rotation meets the surface of the earth".

• Then we have "The Magnetic North Pole is one of the two poles of the Earth's geomagnetic field's dipole moment, specifically the one that is closest to the geographic north pole." I suspect this is muddling with the Geomagnetic North Pole, and that the definition of the Magnetic North Pole later as "the point where the geomagnetic field points vertically downwards" is the correct one.

• Then there is a "definition" of the "Geophysical North Pole" which is apparently "designed to clarify the ambiguity caused by term magnetic north pole", but the explanation does nothing to dispel this ambiguity as it does not tell us what the "Geophysical North Pole" actually is. I have never heard of the "Geophysical North Pole", and again there are no Google hits other than Wikipedia. I wonder if this is another muddle and is supposed to be talking about the Geomagnetic North Pole.

• The definition of "Geomagnetic North Pole" says it is the is the "north end of the axis of the magnetosphere, the geomagnetic field that surrounds earth". While this gives a vague flavour of the meaning, my understanding is that this pole is actually the point of intersection of the earth's surface with the axis of an imaginary magnetic dipole (loosely speaking, a simple bar magnet) that provides a best-fit approximation to the earth's actual (more complex) magnetic field. This concurs with the explanation later. The text then says "Compasses are not affected significantly by this magnetic field" which reads very oddly - as if the earth has two magentic fields, one of which affects compasses and one of which doesn't. I'd be tempted to just remove that sentence.

Any thoughts welcome.

Matt 11:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC).

• I have reworked the intro to read according to my understanding of the definition of these various poles. Matt 21:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC).

Plaisted/Herbert confusion

In the "Expeditions" section, this article says of Wally Herbert's expedition: "In so doing the team became the first to reach the North Pole by surface travel without the assistance of airlifts." A variety of other sources (e.g. http://www.quarkexpeditions.com/arctic/exploration.shtml and http://members.tripod.com/90north/firstatnorthpole.htm) say that Herbert did rely on air support.

On this evidence I would normally just remove the statement, but now I'm totally confused about the Herbert/Plaisted claims to be the "first" to achieve whatever it was they achieved, and I'm not confident enough about the actual facts to change this stuff. Here are some examples of the confusion:

• http://members.tripod.com/90north/firstatnorthpole.htm says that Plaisted's 1968 claim is "confirmed".
• http://www.northpolewomen.com/History.htm disagrees and says that Herbert's 1969 visit was the "first surface traverse definitely to reach North Pole."
• http://www.thepoles.com/guide/guidenp/history.htm hedges its bets and says "it is believed that the first man reaching the North Pole on surface was instead the American Ralph Plaisted" (my italics).
• The Wally Herbert article says "he became the first man to walk undisputed to the North Pole"
• The Ralph Plaisted article says "Ralph Plaisted made the first confirmed trek to the Geographic North Pole.."

It's all a bit of a muddle. Matt 13:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC).

• See also the comment at Talk:Ralph Plaisted that cites a source claiming Plaisted's attempt to reach the North Pole "ended in failure.". Matt 10:37, 27 October 2006 (UTC).

Minnesota adventurer Ralph Plaisted and three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to cross the ice to the North Pole, finally completing a polar quest that spanned nearly 150 years in 1968. After a first attempt to reach the Pole on snowmobiles was thwarted at 83 degrees, 20 minutes by storms and open water in 1967, Plaisted began the successful 412 mile traverse from Canada's Ward Hunt Island on March 7, 1968. Wearing Inuit-inspired clothing, navigating with a sextant and resupplied when possible with fuel and supplies dropped by a Dehavilland Twin Otter, the expedition members spent 43 days, 11 hours on the ice before reaching the North Pole. Plaisted signalled a United States Air Force C135 weather recon aircraft using a handheld radio and at 1530 zulu, April 20, 1968, the USAF LARK-47 flew overhead confirming the party was exactly at the North Pole.

Two important details: Herbert crossed the Pole the following year in 1969. Herbert traveled with dog teams and was also supplied by air.

Pappygy6, 1 april 2007Pappygy6 16:23, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Questions

How big is the circular radius of the north pole ? It is about a mile wide or maybe 50 feet wide. If you imagined in your mind a tooth pick stuck in the snow. How thick would that tooth pick have to be to imagine the circular circumference around the north pole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Berniethomas68 22:27, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

What is the meridian that covers the least amount of land in a straight north-south line from one geographic pole to the other?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kimmymarie24 09:15, 06 May 2008 (UTC)

I belive it is literally a point, which implies that its surface territory equals zero. Of course in real life you could mark an area containing that point, like states' border control areas that are set on both sides of the theoretical border line drawn on maps.

176.63.176.112 (talk) 14:28, 5 February 2017 (UTC).

Territorial claims to the North Pole and Arctic regions

Can somebody pleas draw a map over the clames, or publish a link. I am trying to find out where I can find a interest in conflict betwen the diferent countys. But it is impossibil, when ther is noe map over what is clamed.

Top Gear expedition

See comment at Talk:Top Gear (2002 TV series)/Archive 3#Dubious.

Fake flag image

Reuters is reporting that the images of the Russian flag planted on the seabed of the North Pole is a forgery.[12]. The forgery was first spotted by the Finish news paper Ilta-Sanomat[13]. The images is taken from the movie Titanic (1997 film)

• Was there really an image of a Russian flag being planted on the seabed in Titanic?

No trained navigator?

Under the section "1900-1940", it states "The party that accompanied Peary on the final stage of the journey included no one who was trained in navigation and could independently confirm his own navigational work, which some claim to have been particularly sloppy as he approached the Pole." I believe this is in error. Matthew Hensen, Peary's right-hand man, was indeed trained in navigation; in his WP entry, it reads "He sailed around the world for the next several years, educating himself and becoming a skilled navigator." Unless someone has compelling information to the contrary, I'll amend this. Bricology 18:22, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Please discuss the impact of global warming

Projections are clear that the North Polar ice cap is melting. Please discuss how this may be an important observation for the global climate. The ice cap could be gone soon, according to some relatively conservative estimates, by 2020. This page should acknowledge that. For instance,

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20071212_A_huge_drop_in_sea_ice_sparks_plea__The_Arctic_is_screaming.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.141.32 (talk) 05:22, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

rf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.175.169.214 (talk) 01:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Please look closely at the ice thickness on the USS Skate in 1959 (that broke all the way through the polar ice and surfaced) vs the photo of the USS Charlotte taken in 2005 that could only penetrate with the tower. Look at the men in both pictures to get an idea of scale.

So either the USS Skate never went and the photo was taken further south or the sea ice has more than doubled its thickness between 1959 and 2005.

Discuss THAT — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.116.165.226 (talk) 03:29, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

America owns the north pole?

Why is it that the article states:

America is the sole owner of the North Pole, as was confirmed by the treaty of Northern boundaries of 1789, which was signed by all major northern hemisphere states in Geneva, Switzerland

?????????

Daniel32708 (talk) 21:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)daniel32708

2008 Sea Ice Minimum

The predictions in this article for the 2008 sea ice minimum did not hold up. I am going to remove them from the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.108.210.46 (talk) 08:56, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Took the old "news" out again. Did it happen, was it ice free? Vsmith (talk) 14:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Use of unexplained mathematical symbols

It defines geodetic latitude 90° North (Φ= ⁺π/2), as well as the direction of True North. At the North Pole all directions point south, and as such its longitude can be defined as any degree value (^-π ≤ λ ≤ ⁺π).

I suspect that the mathematical symbols here will, in the absence of any explanation, be gobbledegook to the majority of readers. An explanation could be given, but I feel that would be too much detail for the introduction to this article. I therefore propose removing the parts in parentheses unless anyone feels strongly that they should stay. 86.138.104.133 (talk) 04:38, 2 March 2009 (UTC).

• Since there have been no comments I've removed these. 81.129.130.235 (talk) 14:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

The article is very good... but don't reply to the long time question that is circulating over the internet...

The magnetic field of the north pole is negative or positive? Please, someone could explain this VERY EASY. Please?

That's the magnetic north pole, not the geographic north pole. Serendi^podous 11:54, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, if Cook didn't reach it first, and Peary didn't reach it first

Then who did? Serendi^podous 11:54, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole

in this article is a photo of USS Skate at the north pole after breaking thru the ice, that is all well and good BUT.

photos are from http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08578.htm , the same source used for the pic in the article should not these photos be included also ? http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0857806.jpg http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0858411.jpg

it was pointed out in the general inquire form that the photos were too similar, the person posting did not look at the attached photos. the linked photos are of the Skate at the north pole, in open water in 1959 and 1962.

````  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.83.17 (talk) 22:48, 1 April 2011 (UTC) 

NS Rossiya

• Where is the info about the first cruise to the North Pole on board NS Rossiya. See also DE-Wiki "1990 fuhr das Schiff zum Nordpol zum ersten Mal in der Weltgeschichte mit westlichen Touristen an Bord als Kreuzfahrtschiff." Article - de:Rossiya (1985).

--PjotrMahh1 (talk) 02:51, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

There is some information at Nuclear-powered icebreaker#Individual ships. Seeing as you have both German and English why not create NS Rossiya from the German article? CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 21:21, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Citations to “DIO” should be investigated

The section of the article on Peary's 1909 expedition contains several references to DIO The International Journal of Scientific History, which does not appear to be a reliable source in the Wikipedia sense. It appears to be self-published. The cited article, “First to the North Pole”, is attributed to E. Myles Standish, who is also listed as a member of the journal's editorial board. A Wikipedia article on DIO was proposed for summary deletion and removed without any contest; the nominating user says Reason: No independent sources, not indexed in any selective database. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG.

DIO claims to be published by Dennis Rawlins, who may be an authority on the topic. Rawlins’ article “Byrd's heroic 1926 North Pole failure” on this topic appears to be reliable. (Reference below.) However, there is no indication that DIO itself is a reliable source.

I have tagged the DIO references with {{vc}}, but I believe they should probably be removed. There is a longer discussion of DIO in a footnote, which should be cleaned up. I found the footnote muddled and difficult to understand, so I left it alone.

• Rawlins, Dennis. "Byrd's heroic 1926 North Pole failure". Polar Record. 36 (196). Cambridge University Press: 25–50. doi:10.1017/S0032247400015953.

—Mark Dominus (talk) 19:36, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

There is a review of Rawlins’ 1973 book Peary at the North Pole: Fact or Fiction? in Warntz, William (March 1975). "Reviewed Work: Peary at the North Pole: Fact or Fiction? by Dennis Rawlins". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 65 (1): 79–82., but JStor will only show me the first page, so I cannot say what the reviewer thinks of it. —Mark Dominus (talk) 19:46, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

I have referred this to Wikipedia:Reliable Sources Noticeboard#DIO.2C_the_International_Journal_of_Scientific_History.

RSN was not interested. The referall has been archived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_205#DIO.2C_the_International_Journal_of_Scientific_History —Mark Dominus (talk) 16:27, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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counter/clockwise vs left/right

"Along tight latitude circles, counterclockwise is east and clockwise is west."

1): this is true for all latitude circles, not just "tight" ones.

2): and its only true in the sense of the "clock" being laid with its centre on top of the north pole, therefore the counter/clockwise describing movement relative to the north pole. however, if you look at your own watches, that are on your wrist, you define clockwise as going right and counterclocwise as going left relative to the point where you are standing. now if you are facing the north pole, then you go right, aka clockwise to east and vice versa to west.

since the above desribed clockwise directions are equally valid/intuitive (while leading to opposite results), the cited sentence needs clarification to avoid confusion. 176.63.176.112 (talk) 15:08, 5 February 2017 (UTC).

Notability

There is a List of Arctic expeditions already. I would like to suggest that to make it into this article, there needs to be something really special about the trip. The two Russian trips MLAE in motorized conveyances are cool, but not earth-shattering. A guy hoofed and swam it solo in 2003. There was a separate article MLAE-2013 but it's gone now. I don't know why. There is no point filling this article with stuff that is elsewhere. I suggest paring everything in Exploration down and moving it to an appropriate subsidiary article.Rhadow (talk) 01:08, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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North Pole photo at top of page

The caption of the photo at the top of the page says that it was taken at the North Pole in 2006. On the left side of the page there is something that appears to be an outcrop of land. The nearest land to the North Pole is over 400 miles away. Has the location of the photo been verified? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.251.68.246 (talk) 15:05, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Looks like an ice ridge to me. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 06:27, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

The image at the top of the page has been taken by the “North Pole Webcam” located at least 750 km south of the geographic north pole. The webcam image should be deleted, as there is also a true north pole image available.--Matti&Keti (talk) 20:01, 19 September 2021 (UTC).

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I have checked the disputed “North Pole Webcam”. These web cams are satellite-reporting camera buoys, drifting for hundreds of km in the arctic pack ice. The Remote Autonomous Camera Systems (RACS) give a visual record of ice changes over the spring-summer-fall season. The buoys also record many climatic parameters. The program title is “North Pole Central Arctic Ocean Circulation”. There are dozens of observation buoys, some are drifting south to 82°N, others even further south. --Matti&Keti (talk) 17:25, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Nuclear submarine Nautilus 1958

This US ship’s trip to the North Pole is unmentioned. The crew took measurements of arctic ice thickness. These measurements are very relevant to the global warming data but it is very difficult to find mention of them or information as to what was recorded. Please add to this article the pertinent information. Janice Vian, Ph.D. (talk) 19:37, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 2 December 2021

Could you change the “few decades” on when sea ice will melt in the summer to 2050? 2601:601:513:26F0:F5BF:DD3D:DCD9:D8A6 (talk) 03:57, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: The source does not mention 2050. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 December 2021

There should be an image that shows the sign that is located at the north pole (it says "NORTH POLE 90N"), the one that looks like an arrow pointing downwards. There is an actual sign at the north pole, and yet you do not have an image showcasing the sign. 136.228.45.195 (talk) 16:34, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

 Not done for now: Please provide an image with an acceptable license. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:37, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Show a sign that is located at the north pole

This was recently asked in the discussion. Just for information: The area of the geographic North Pole is covered by drifting pack-ice. If you fly there and put a sign “North Pole”, this sign will move several hundred meters per day, this means several 100 miles per year. Also the magnetic North Pole is moving currently about 40 km per year. So it makes no sense to put a sign there, of top of the moving drift ice/packice.Matti&Keti (talk) 09:13, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Not fully correct: "In 1897, Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and two companions"

I interpret this quote as if it was a Swedish expedition only. It was not. From approx 1814 (?) until 1905 Sweden and Norway constituted a Union with one King. Of the balloon-travellers Salomon André and Nils Strindberg were Swedish but Knud Fraenkel was Norwegian. All three in the sense of the language they spoke and where they was born.The expedition was Swedish-Norwegian. 83.250.71.64 (talk) 22:16, 24 April 2022 (UTC)