Magnetic North Pole locations from 1590 to 2030. Image: BGS, UKRI, and Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith (1996) A moving target. The Magnetic North Pole is completely different from the Geographic ...

Pictured are the magnetic north pole locations from 1590 to 2030. BGS/UKRI/Wessel, P./W. H. F. Smith. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

For centuries, the magnetic north pole steadily tracked along Canada's northern shore. But in recent decades, it has taken a new path, accelerating across the Arctic Ocean toward Russia's Siberia ...

The magnetic North Pole is on a journey toward Russia in a way that has not been seen before. The British Geological Survey (BGS) works with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Compass needles in the Northern Hemisphere point toward the magnetic North Pole, although the exact location of it changes from time to time as the contours of Earth’s magnetic field also change.