The North Pole is the northernmost point on any planet. There are various ways of defining a planet's North Pole. Earth's North Pole, however it is defined, lies in the Arctic Ocean. North Pole - Defining the North Pole of Earth. The North Pole, the northernmost point on the Earth, can be defined in four different ways. Only the first two definitions are commonly used. However it is defined, the North Pole lies in the Arctic Ocean. The Geographic North Pole, also known as True ...

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• North Pole - Defining the North Pole of Earth
• North Pole - Geographic North Pole
• North Pole - Expeditions
• North Pole - Magnetic North
• North Pole - Geomagnetic North Pole
• North Pole - Northern Pole of Inaccessibility
• North Pole - Defining North Poles in astronomy
• North Pole - Day and night
• North Pole - Territorial claims to the North Pole Arctic
• North Pole - Magnetic declination
• North Pole - Cultural references to the North Pole

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North Pole, North Pole - Defining the North Pole of Earth, North Pole - Geographic North Pole, North Pole - Expeditions, North Pole - Magnetic North, North Pole - Geomagnetic North Pole, North Pole - Northern Pole of Inaccessibility, North Pole - Defining North Poles in astronomy, North Pole - Day and night, North Pole - Territorial claims to the North Pole Arctic, North Pole - Magnetic declination, North Pole - Cultural references to the North Pole

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The Geomagnetic North Pole is the pole of the Earth's geomagnetic field closest to true north. The first-order approximation of the Earth's magnetic field is that of a single magnetic dipole (like a bar magnet), tilted about 11° with respect to Earth's rotation axis and centered at the Earth's core. The residuals form the nondipole field. The Geomagnetic poles are the places where the axis of this dipole intersects the Earth's surface. Because the dipole approximation is far from a perfect fit to the Earth's magnetic field, the magnetic fie ...

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North Pole, North Pole - Defining the North Pole of Earth, North Pole - Geographic North Pole, North Pole - Expeditions, North Pole - Magnetic North, North Pole - Geomagnetic North Pole, North Pole - Northern Pole of Inaccessibility, North Pole - Defining North Poles in astronomy, North Pole - Day and night, North Pole - Territorial claims to the North Pole Arctic, North Pole - Magnetic declination, North Pole - Cultural references to the North Pole

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The Airship Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out what many consider the first verified overflight of the North Pole on May 12, 1926. It was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America.The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, and American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who along with the Aero Club of Norway financed the trip. Airship Norge - Specification and Design. Norge was the ...

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• Airship Norge - Polar Expedition

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The Arctic is the area around the Earth's North Pole. The Arctic includes parts of Russia, Alaska (United States), Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Iceland, and Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, and Finland), as well as the Arctic Ocean. There are numerous definitions for the Arctic region. The boundary is generally considered to be north of the Arctic Circle (66° 33’N), which is the limit of the midnight sun and the polar night. Other definitions are based on climate and ecology, such as the 10°C (50°F) July isother ...

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• Arctic - Nature and natural resources
• Arctic - Arctic cultures
• Arctic - The changing Arctic
• Arctic - Environmental impact assessment
• Arctic - International cooperation and politics
• Arctic - A strategic military region

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Airship Italia was a semi-rigid airship used by Umberto Nobile in his second series of flights around the North Pole. Airship Italia - Design and Specifications. Italia was an N-class semirigid airship, designation N4. In design it was almost identical to the N1 Norge but larger in gas capacity. Little is known of airship N2. Airship N3 was sold to to Japan and became "Naval Airship No. 6". According to Italian sources, airship N5 (which was larger and had three times the lifting capcit ...

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• Airship Italia - Design and Specifications
• Airship Italia - Polar flights
• Airship Italia - Causes of crash
• Airship Italia - Crew and expedition members
• Airship Italia - Rescue effort

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The South Pole is the southernmost point on the Earth, as defined in any of several ways. South Pole - Geographic South Pole. The Geographic South Pole is the one of two points where the earth's axis of rotation intersects the surface (the other being the Geographic North Pole). This is the point usually meant when an unspecified "south pole" is mentioned. The first humans to reach the Geographic South Pole were Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14, 1911. Amundsen named his camp Polh ...

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• South Pole - Geographic South Pole
• South Pole - Ceremonial South Pole
• South Pole - Geomagnetic South Pole
• South Pole - Magnetic South Pole
• South Pole - The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility

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The Arctic Ocean, located mostly in the north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five oceans, and the shallowest. Even though IHO recognizes it as an ocean, oceanographers may call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean seas of the Atlantic Ocean. Arctic Ocean - Geography. The Arctic Ocean occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an area of about 14,090,000 km² (5,440,000 mi²), slightly less than 1.5 times the size o ...

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• Arctic Ocean - Geography
• Arctic Ocean - Climate
• Arctic Ocean - Elevation extremes
• Arctic Ocean - Natural resources
• Arctic Ocean - Natural hazards
• Arctic Ocean - Environment - current issues
• Arctic Ocean - Ports and harbors
• Arctic Ocean - Transportation - note
• Arctic Ocean - Exploration

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A magnet is an object that has a magnetic field. The word magnet comes from the Greek "magnítis líthos" (μαγνήτης λίθος), which means "magnesian stone". Magnesia is an area in Greece (Now Manisa, Turkey) where deposits of magnetite have been discovered since antiquity. Magnet - Introduction. In the modern sense, a magnet is any material that has a magnetic field. It can be in the form of a permanent magnet or an electromagnet. Permanent magnets do not rely upon outside in ...

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• Magnet - Introduction
• Magnet - Physical origin of magnetism
• Magnet - Permanent Magnets
• Magnet - Electromagnets
• Magnet - Characteristics of magnetic materials
• Magnet - Permanent magnets and dipoles
• Magnet - North/south pole designation and the Earth's magnetic field
• Magnet - Common uses for magnets
• Magnet - How to magnetize materials
• Magnet - How to demagnetize materials
• Magnet - Types of permanent magnets
• Magnet - Magnetic forces
• Magnet - Magnets and other magnets
• Magnet - Magnets and ferromagnetic materials
• Magnet - Magnets and diamagnetic materials
• Magnet - Magnets and paramagnetic materials
• Magnet - Calculating the magnetic force
• Magnet - Online references
• Magnet - Printed references
• Magnet - External articles

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A totem is any natural or supernatural object, being or animal which has personal symbolic meaning to an individual and to whose phenomena and energy one feels closely associated with during one's life. A simplified dramatic example of this belief in practice is in the Walt Disney Pictures animated film, Brother Bear. In the film, a boy from a proto-Inuit tribe receives a totem of the B ...

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• Totem - North American totem poles
• Totem - Ancient totem culture in Sanxingdui China
• Totem - Totems in Zimbabwe

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Polaris (α UMi / α Ursae Minoris / Alpha Ursae Minoris) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is also very close to the north celestial pole, making it the current north pole star. Much more rarely, it is sometimes called Cynosura. "Polaris" comes from Stella Polaris, the Latin form of its common name "Pole Star." The Greek name Cynosura (Κυνόσουρα) means "tail of the dog" and is the source of the English word cynosure. Other names include the "North Star", the ...

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In astronomy, circumpolar constellations are those that, from the viewer's latitude, never set. They are also visible year round at that location. From the North Pole, all constellations north of the celestial equator, (all fully visible constellations) are circumpolar, and similarly from the South Pole. From the equator, there are no circumpolar constellations. From mid-north latitudes (40-50ºN), circumpolar constellations may include Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Draco, Camelopardalis, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia.

Earth's magnetic field (and the surface magnetic field) is approximately a magnetic dipole, with one pole near the geographic north pole and the other near the geographic south pole. An imaginary line joining the magnetic poles would be inclined by approximately 11.3° from the planet's axis of rotation. The cause of the field is probably explained by dynamo theory. The magnetic field extends several tens of thousands of kilometres into space as the magnetosphere. Earth's magnetic field - Magnetic poles. Including:

• Earth's magnetic field - Magnetic poles
• Earth's magnetic field - Field characteristics
• Earth's magnetic field - Magnetic field variations
• Earth's magnetic field - Magnetic field reversals
• Earth's magnetic field - Magnetic field decay
• Earth's magnetic field - Magnetic field electrogenerators

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South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of North and at right angles to East and West. By convention, the bottom side of a map is South. To go south using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 180°. True south is the direction towards the southern end of the axis about which the earth rotates, called the South Pole. The South Pole is located in Antarctica. Magnetic south is the direction towards the south magnetic pole, some d ...

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Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict was an American pilot from California. He is best known for having flown together with Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher a U.S. Air Force C-47 modified to have skis and wheels to the North Pole, where they became the first humans to land a plane on May 3, 1952 and (together with scientist Albert P. Crary) the first persons to set foot on the exact geographical North Pole. Benedict later worker as a firefighting pilot in California. He was killed while dropping fire ret ...

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The 2nd Fleet of the United States Navy is responsible in peacetime for training the Atlantic battle fleet in war-fighting skills, developing and evaluating new naval tactics and maintaining theater battle group readiness. It was activated in the aftermath of the World War II, when it was recognised that a numbered fleet was needed for the Atlantic. Second Fleet operates primarily in the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole and from the shores of the United States to the west coast of Europe. It also operates al ...

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Albert Paddock Crary (1911 - 1987), was a pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist and the first person to set foot on both the North (on May 3, 1952, together with Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict) and South Poles. He reached the South Pole on February 12, 1961 as the leader of a team of eight. They had set out from McMurdo Station on December 10, 1960, using three Snowcats with trailers. Crary was the seventh expedition leader to arrive at the South Pole by surface transportation (the six others before him were—in seq ...

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Beta Ursae Minoris (β UMi / β Ursae Minoris) is the second brightest star in the bowl of the "Little Dipper," the constellation Ursa Minor. It also has the traditional name Kochab. Kochab was the naked-eye star that served as the Earth's North pole star from 1900 BC to 1100 BC, although it was never as close to the pole as Polaris is now. Due to precession of the equinoxes, the previous holder of the ti ...

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Thuban (α Dra / α Draconis / Alpha Draconis) is a star (or star system) in the constellation of Draco. Due to the precession of Earth's rotational axis, it was the naked-eye star closest to the north pole from some time prior to 3000 B.C. until 1900 B.C., when it was superseded by Beta Ursae Minoris. It was closest to the pole in 2700 B.C.: a mere 10 seconds of arc away (1/180th the width of the full Moon). Thuban is just barely fourth magnitude, so it cannot be seen from light-polluted areas. Even though Thuban is the alpha ...

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The flight to cross the North Pole started off from Rome on March 29, reaching its first destination Oslo, Norway on April 14. It then went via Leningrad to Vadsø in northern Norway, where the airship mast is still standing today. The expedition then crossed the Barents Sea to reach Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard which would be its last stop before crossing the pole. The airship left Ny-Ålesund for ...

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Airship Norge, Airship Norge - Specification and Design, Airship Norge - Polar Expedition

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