A magnetic map based on satellite data and airplane surveys shows how 200 million years ago Antarctica was joined with South America, Africa, India, and Australia.

As compasses draw closer to the magnetic North and South Poles, they become less reliable. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Return to Scott's Antarctic camp marks 100-year anniversary. ... Journey Under Way to Track the Magnetic South Pole. Return to Scott's Antarctic camp marks 100-year anniversary.

Two scientists from New Zealand will travel to Antarctica today in a quest to continue a 100-year-long record of Earth’s magnetic field: a record begun by British explorer Robert Scott at the ...

Scientists continue 100-year tradition of magnetic measurements in Antarctica. ... show Earth’s South Magnetic Pole is moving northwest by 10km to 15km a year.

Earth's magnetic field lines travel in continuous closed loops. (Image credit: VectorMine via Getty Images) And just to make things that little more confusing, what we call the North Magnetic Pole ...

“To get within a couple of kilometres of the magnetic South Pole, even today with modern instrumentation, is deemed to be about as close as one can get to reaching it.” Today, the South Magnetic Pole ...

Last, due to its location near Earth’s magnetic South Pole, Antarctica provides an ideal platform for studying the ionosphere and magnetosphere, with the goal of understanding how solar winds ...