North Pole

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 North, is the northernmost point on the Earth as determined by the planet's rotation. It has a known fixed position, at latitude 90° North. The boundaries of Canada extend all the way to the Geographic North Pole. There is no land at this location, which is usually covered by sea ice.
The Magnetic North Pole is the northern point at which the geomagnetic field points vertically, i.e. the dip is 90°. This definition was proposed by Sir William Gilbert, a courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, in 1600 and is still used. Despite its name, it is a south magnetic pole, because the north pole (labelled N) of every other magnet is attracted to it, and opposite magnetic poles attract each other. Its location (in 2003) is 78°18' North, 104° West, near Ellef Ringness Island, one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Canada.
The Geomagnetic North Pole is the pole of the Earth's geomagnetic field closest to true north. Like Magnetic North, it is a south magnetic pole. It is the centre of the region in the magnetosphere in which the Aurora Borealis can be seen. Its present location is 78°30' North, 69° West, near Thule in Greenland.
The Northern Pole of Inaccessibility is defined as the point in the Arctic farthest from any coastline, and is at 84°03' North, 174°51' West. It is of interest mainly to explorers and crackpot conspiracy theorists, and was first visited in 1927.

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. For the magnetic poles, their names are decided upon by the direction that their field lines emerge or enter the planet's crust. If they enter the same way as they do for Earth at the north pole, we call this the planet's north magnetic pole. Magnetic poles can flip flop from north to south and back again. The Earth's poles have done this repeatedly throughout history, and 500,000 years ago, the south magnetic pole was at the North Pole. It is thought that this occurs when the circulation of liquid nickel/iron in the Earth's outer core is disrupted and then reestablishes itself in the opposite direction. It is not known what causes these disruptions.

Saturn's moon Hyperion is the only object in the solar system that is known to lack a geographic north pole. It rotates chaotically due to a combination of its irregular shape and tidal influences from nearby moons.

The axial tilt of the planet Uranus is very nearly 90 degrees relative to the ecliptic plane, so that labelling one pole or the other to be the "north" pole is still a matter of some dispute. When a body's axial tilt is greater than 90 degrees, either one of two interpretations can be considered equally valid; the axis could be tilted greater than 90 degrees, or the labelling of the poles could be reversed (north becomes south) and the body considered to be rotating in a retrograde direction.

The projection of the north geographic pole onto the celestial sphere gives the north celestial pole.

Expressions: North Pole

Expressions using "North Pole": north pole face ♦ the north pole. Additional references.
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Modern Translations: North Pole

Language		Translations for "North Pole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pol i veriut. (various references)

Arabic		‏قطب شمالي (the north pole), ‏القطب الشمالي (the north pole). (various references)

Bulgarian		северен полюс. (various references)

Chinese		北極 (the Arctic Pole, the north magnetic pole, the North Pole). (various references)

Czech		severní pól. (various references)

Danish		nordpolflade (north pole face), nordpol (north pole face, plus pole, positive pole). (various references)

Dutch		noordpooloppervlak (north pole face), Noordpool (Arctic, north pole face, the Arctic). (various references)

Finnish		pohjoisnapa (north pole face). (various references)

French		pôle nord (north pole face). (various references)

German		Nordpol (north pole face). (various references)

Greek		βόρειοσ πόλοσ, βόρειος πόλος,επιφάνεια βόρειου πόλου (north pole face), �'όρειος � όλος. (various references)

Hungarian		északi-sarok. (various references)

Italian		polo nord (north pole face). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		北極 , 極北 (extreme north). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょくほく (extreme north), ほっきょく. (various references)

Manx		Ard y Twoaie, ard ny twoaie. (various references)

Pig Latin		orthnay olepay

Portuguese		pólo norte (north pole face, north sea, plus pole, positive pole), coréia do norte. (various references)

Romanian		polul nord (the north pole). (various references)

Russian		северный полюс. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		severni pol (antarctic circle). (various references)

Spanish		polo norte (north pole face). (various references)

Swedish		nordpolen (Arctic, North Pole - the, the Arctic), nordpol (north pole face). (various references)

Turkish		kuzey kutbu (celestial pole). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: North Pole

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	axes, axis. (various references)
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Anagrams: North Pole

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-l-n-o-o-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: porthole.
	-2 letters: pothole.
	-3 letters: enroot, holpen, hooper, hooter, hornet, lepton, looper, looter, nother, operon, petrol, phenol, photon, pother, pronto, proton, replot, retool, thoron, thorpe, throne, tooler.
	-4 letters: enrol, ephor, helot, heron, honer, honor, hoper, hotel, lento, loner, loper, nerol, netop, north, noter, orlop, ortho, other, pelon, phone, phono, photo, poler, porno, prole, prone, repot.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-l-n-o-o-p-r-t"
	+3 letters: luteotrophin, nephrologist, photonuclear, phrenologist.
	+4 letters: dinitrophenol, luteotrophins, nephrologists, photoelectron, phrenologists.
	+5 letters: anthropologies, controllership, dinitrophenols, hyperemotional, neuropathology, photoelectrons, radiotelephone, radiotelephony.
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Alternative Orthography: North Pole

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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01001110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 00100000 01010000 01101111 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 0072 0074 0068 0050 006F 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	1. 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. [Ed. note: Original text read "clockwise" instead of "counter-clockwise"] See celestial pole, ecliptic pole, geographical pole, geomagnetic pole, magnetic pole.2. The north-seeking end of a magnet. (references)
Physics	A pole, or pole face of a magnet, away from which the external flux density is directed. Source: European Union. (references)
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Recession	Magnetic pole; north pole, south pole; magnetic monopole.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	At the North Pole them are fighting words, Partner. (Jingle All the Way; writing credit: Randy Kornfield) Away up in the heavens, far out in space, in a beautiful gold and crystal palace right above the North Pole, lives a kind and jolly old gentleman. (Santa Claus; writing credit: René Cardona; Adolfo Torres Portillo)
Movie/TV Titles	Emperor of the North Pole (1973) The North Pole (1920) Felix Hits the North Pole (1920) Der Captain Discovers the North Pole (1917) Sonny Jim at the North Pole (1914)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole (reference) The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole 1818-1909 (reference) Walking on Thin Ice: In Pursuit of the North Pole (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Madeline - At the North Pole (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	North Pole by Submarine (reference) North Pole Favorites (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Four-frame mosaic of Europa's northern hemisphere (including the north pole).Credit: NASA.		North Pole.Credit: NASA.
	Robert Peary in the Arctic Under order to observe tides for C&GS during North Pole expedition Also observed bathymetry Peary served as a draftsman with the C&GS early in his career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		"I have been to the North Pole" : [Frederick A. Cook].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Judges from the submarine's crew meet in the wardroom to chose the winning entry in the North Pole flag contest, during her North Pole cruise, 12 August 1958. Those present are (from left to right): Lieutenant John W. Harvey, USN; Chief Engineman Hercules H. Nicholas, USN; Commander R.F. Dobbins, Medical Corps, USN; and Chief Hospitalman John A. Aberle, USN.Credit: NAVY.		The North Pole as it really looks.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Men with dogsleds on an expanse of frozen ice during the Cook expedition to the North Pole.Credit: Library of Congress.		A Northernmost man and his wife, Mec-oo-sha and Ah-ma, standing next to sledge, two Inuits who served as helpers to Frederick Cook during his expedition to the North Pole.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Two people travelling by dog sleds on Frederick Cook's journey to the North Pole.Credit: Library of Congress.		Fresh and cold--Direct from the North Pole / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Lulea-Kallax Airport in northern Sweden is being promoted as a new cargo hub for flights over the North Pole and Northern Hemisphere. (references)
		Among the major investments in new capacity is the attempt to make Lulea-Kallax Airport a new cargo hub for flights over the North Pole and the northern hemisphere. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Its course was direct from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska to the North Pole and return.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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4E 6F 72 74 68 50 6F 6C 65

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