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Geographic and Magnetic Poles Summary
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Earth's geographic poles are fixed by the axis of Earth's rotation. On maps, the north and south geographic poles are located at the congruence of lines of longitude. Earth's geographic poles and magnetic poles are not located in...
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Geographical pole Information
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A geographical pole, or geographic pole, is either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins. For the purposes of cartography, it provides an agreed upon...


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The Boston Globe
National Geographic Says Peary Reached Pole
12/12/1989: 338 words, approx. 1 pages
WASHINGTON - A yearlong scientific analysis of the photographs and notes brought back by Robert E. Peary establishes that the explorer reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909, just as he had asserted, the National Geographic Society said yesterday. The study was...
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Sea Technology
Under the Ice Dome at the Geographic North Pole
12/01/2007: 2,588 words, approx. 9 pages
Russian MIR Submersibles Make a Historic Dive To the Seafloor at the Top of the World As of this September, thousands have been to the summit of Mount Everest, 437 astronauts have traveled to space, 13 men have stepped on the Moon and...
 


 

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