In February 1859, when sledging became practical, he went south to the North Magnetic Pole which had been found by James Clark Ross in 1831.
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The inclination of the Earth's field is 90?( downwards ) at the North Magnetic Pole and-90?( upwards ) at the South Magnetic Pole.
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Since opposite poles ( north and south ) attract, the North Magnetic Pole is actually the " south " pole of the Earth's magnetic field.
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In 2014 Desmarais participated in a ski expedition to the North Magnetic Pole, organized by True Patriot Love, Canada s largest charity supporting military families.
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If the ancient magnetic field was oriented similar to today's field ( North Magnetic Pole near the Geographic South Pole, the strata exhibit reversed polarity.
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They were also to attempt to establish the location of the Earth's North Magnetic Pole, then believed to lie somewhere along the western shore of Baffin Bay.
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As a graduate student, Akasofu was one of the first to understand that the northern aurora was actually an aurora of light surrounding the North Magnetic Pole.
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Over the last 180 years, the North Magnetic Pole has been migrating northwestward, from Cape Adelaide in the Boothia Peninsula in 1831 to from Resolute Bay in 2001.
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But when he and his students charted the drift of the north magnetic pole shown by European rocks it did not match the path shown by American rocks.
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The north pole of a magnet is defined as the pole that, when the magnet is freely suspended, points towards the Earth's North Magnetic Pole in the Arctic.