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North Magnetic Pole
Sign in to saveAlso known as Magnetic North Pole, magnetic North, magnetic bearing, Earth's North Magnetic Pole, north magnetic dip pole
point in the Arctic at which Earth's magnetic field points vertically downwards, at 86°N 175°E in the Arctic Ocean as of 2019
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Vinony's link graph records 691 inbound references to North Magnetic Pole, and connects out to North Pole, history of Antarctica and John Ross.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NU, across 17 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Geographic coordinate lists, Geography of the Arctic and Geography of the Northwest Territories.
Vinony links it to 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- magnetic pole of Earth
- Named after
- north
- Image
- North Magnetic Poles.svg
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- opposite of
- South Magnetic Pole
- different from
- North Pole
- described at URL
- www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/data/poles/NP.xy
- discoverer or inventor
- James Clark Ross
- time of discovery or invention
- 1831-06-01
- has cause
- Earth's magnetic field
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of the north magnetic pole and the north geomagnetic pole in 2017. The magnetic-north of the earth as a magnet is actually on the southern hemisphere: The north side of magnets are by definition attracted to the magnetic south pole (which is the one in the geographic north), and opposite poles attract.
The north magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic north pole, is a point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically downward (in other words, if a magnetic compass needle is allowed to rotate in three dimensions, it will point straight down). There is only one location where this occurs, near (but distinct from) the geographic north pole. The Earth's magnetic north pole is actually considered the "south pole" in terms of a typical magnet, meaning that the north pole of a magnet would be attracted to the Earth's magnetic north pole.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “North Magnetic Pole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
17 mapped locations