"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

In the bottom left corner of Mercator’s famous 1569 world map, he included the first known map of the North Pole (which was later published separately under the title Septentrionalium Terrarum).

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Reaching the North Pole was a fantasy of the ancients. Finding the Northwest Passage was the goal of European explorers. Traversing the Arctic Ocean has become the reality of climate change ...

Harrison argued that while the Mercator projection was useful in the age of sail and steam, with the advent of air power, an ‘azimuthal equidistant projection’, pivoted around the North Pole, was ...

It’s massive.’ That should be part of the United States.” Yet many commentators have pointed out what any true map-lover knows: Greenland is not actually as big as it appears on most maps.

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But since then, the magnetic north has drifted away from Canada and toward Russia, experts said. According to them, the magnetic pole moved 400 kilometres northwest from its 1831 position.

The recent WMM update reveals that Earth’s magnetic North Pole is moving from Canada to Siberia in Russia. This shift is driven by the flow of molten iron and nickel between our planet’s two ...

The magnetic North Pole is moving from Canada toward Siberia The Earth's magnetic field has slowly changed since the planet's formation. As tectonic plates rise along mid-ocean ridges and meet ...