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This pressure ridge at the North Pole is about 1 km (0.62 mi.) long, formed between two ice floes of multi-year ice. The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
The Arctic Circle, roughly 67° north of the Equator, defines the boundary of the Arctic waters and lands. The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. [1] Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
Alert lies just 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole; the nearest Canadian city is Iqaluit, the capital of the territory of Nunavut, 2,092 km (1,300 mi) distant. The settlement is surrounded by rugged hills and valleys. The shore is composed primarily of slate and shale. Argillite and greywacke also occur.
Arctic. The Arctic Circle, currently at roughly 66° north of the Equator, defines the boundary of the Arctic seas and lands. A political map showing land ownership within the Arctic region. Artificially coloured topographical map of the Arctic region. MODIS image of the Arctic. The Arctic (/ ˈɑːrtɪk / or / ˈɑːrktɪk /) [1][Note 1] is a ...
North Pole-19 A.N.Chilingarov: November 7, 1969 April 16, 1973 ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates)
On April 15 the following year, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declared the territory between two lines (32°04′35″E to 168°49′30″W [7]) drawn from west of Murmansk to the North Pole and from the eastern Chukchi Peninsula to the North Pole to be Soviet territory. Norway (5°E to 35°E) made similar sector claims, as ...
The North Pole, at the center of the Arctic Ocean. The inner circle shows 75° N. Farthest North describes the most northerly latitude reached by explorers, before the first successful expedition to the North Pole rendered the expression obsolete. The Arctic polar regions are much more accessible than those of the Antarctic, as continental land ...
Emanuel Bowen's 1780s map of the Arctic features a "Northern Ocean". Early cartographers were unsure whether to draw the region around the North Pole as land (as in Johannes Ruysch's map of 1507, or Gerardus Mercator's map of 1595) or water (as with Martin Waldseemüller's world map of 1507).