What are some fun facts/trivia about the North Pole?

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What are some fun facts/trivia about the North Pole?

Answer 1

Perhaps the fact that it is just a really large floating iceberg? And because of that, if it consist of nothing other besides the same water as the surrounding sea, melting it won't raise the sea-level?

Answer 2

There are two North Poles, one is true North and the other is magnetic North Pole.

Also the North Pole is not a region but a point so only one person can stand on it at any one time. It's often confused with the Arctic which is quite a large icy region.

Answer 3

santa lives there! haha so just pretend that santa is real, then it's true =]

Answer 4

The Geographic North Pole is defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface. It should not be confused with the North Magnetic Pole.

the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean

The sea depth at the North Pole has been measured at 4,261 metres (13,980 ft).

At the North Pole, the Sun is permanently above the horizon during the summer months and permanently below the horizon during the winter months.

no particular time zone has been assigned to the North Pole

The North Pole is significantly warmer than the South Pole because it lies at sea level in the middle of an ocean (which acts as a reservoir of heat), rather than at altitude in a continental land mass.

Canada Post has assigned postal code H0H 0H0 to the North Pole

Answer 5

There is NO FUN in the North Pole! Just SURVIVAL!

Answer 6

russians tried to take it over.

Answer 7

NORTH POLE/ARCTIC FACTS

- The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by continents.



- Icebergs are calved from glaciers and are seasonal. The icebergs are measured in cubic yards.

- Sea ice accumulates over several years.

- Land ice is found in limited areas, the largest being the Greenland ice sheet.

- The elevation at the North Pole is 3 feet of sea ice. The bedrock is located 1400 feet below sea level.

- The annual mean temperature at the North Pole is 0°F.

MORE INTERESTING FACTS

• Some day compasses may all point south. Why? Because scientists believe that the North Magnetic Pole is reversing (going backward,) which means that the Earth’s magnetic pole may someday be located at the South Pole.

• The ice at the North Magnetic Pole has no land under it. The Arctic ice cap floats. It is 2 to 3 meters (6.5 to 10 feet) deep and is the size of the United States during the winter months. Half of this ice melts in the summer.

• The Arctic tern, which is a very small bird, migrates from the North Pole where it breeds to the South Pole where it lives during the winter months. The trip is 35,000 kilometers (21, 750 miles.)

• The first man to ever reach the North Pole was Robert E. Peary. He and four Eskimos reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909, just one month before Floyd Bennet and Richard Byrd arrived there by plane. Peary and his team traveled to the North Pole by dogsled, which was an amazing feat.