If you look at a map of the North Pole, you'll notice that the point where it falls happens to be in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. So what continent is the North Pole on?

Map shows North Pole and location of buoys with webcams in the Arctic. Image: NSF's North Pole Environmental Observatory. We think of the North Pole as a vast frozen wasteland. Most of the time it ...

But lately, near the Arctic, it’s been so active that researchers had to release a crucial update to the World Magnetic Model so maps and other navigation software would correctly point North ...

Then around 1860, it took a sharp turn toward Siberia. Since then, the pole has traveled nearly 1,500 miles and was most recently found in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, still en route to Russia.

And unlike the geographic north pole, which is fixed, the north magnetic pole has been slowly migrating over time – moving across the Canadian Arctic toward Russia since 1831.

The Canadian icebreaker ship Louis S. St-Laurent is mapping the seafloor near the North Pole this weekend, as Canada prepares to stake a claim to territory beyond the 200-mile nautical limit in ...

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 ...

When explorers were looking for the Northeast Passage, they discovered Nova Zembla, which was an island in the Arctic Circle. Although the map is called North Pole, it's not really a map of the ...