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The North Pole is marked as 90.s.is it true |
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Answer» Answer: The North Pole is the northernmost point on Earth. It is the precise point of the intersection of the Earth's axis and the Earth's surface. From the North Pole, all directions are south. Its latitude is 90 degrees north, and all lines of longitude meet there (as well as at the South Pole, on the opposite end of the Earth). Polaris, the current North Star, sits almost motionless in the SKY above the pole, making it an EXCELLENT fixed point to use in celestial navigation in the Northern Hemisphere. The North Pole sits in the middle of the Arctic OCEAN, on water that is almost always covered with ice. The ice is about 2-3 meters (6-10 feet) thick. The depth of the ocean at the North Pole is more than 4,000 meters (13,123 feet). The Canadian territory of Nunavut lies CLOSEST to the North Pole. Greenland, the world's largest island and an independent country within the Kingdom of Denmark, is also close to the pole. please FOLLOW me |
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