Why do they only exist at far-northern latitudes?
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A fjord or fiord is a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. Typical characteristics of a fjord include: a narrow inlet, a bottom glacially eroded significantly below sea level.
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its not possible, so it will be at the north pole
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From Wikipedia :\n"The North Star has been historically used by explorers to determine their latitude. At any point north of the equator the angle from the horizon to the North Star (its altitude) is the same as the latitude from which that angle was taken. For example, the angle to the North Star for a person at 30° latitude will be about 30°."
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Assuming it's true, then it's probably because of creatures' abilities to adapt to their environments.  Over centuries, evolution and genetic mutations and such allow different species to form, to become most suitable for their habitat.\n\nHowever, I'm a bit doubtful that a snake, a cold-blooded animal, would be able to survive in such a cold region....
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Chances are, yes.\n\n90% of all solar systems are not in a circle so they can not support life.  Of the 10% that are left what are the odds that another planet is moving around a sun where it's not to hot or too cold. Even in our own little solar system there is only one.\n\nSo, if there is life elsewhere, we will never meet them.
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because gravity points to the center of the sphere, so no matter where you are on teh sphere, the down direction is towards the center of teh planet, wich allows penguins in teh south pole to walk on teh surface of the planet.\nIf you look at constelation however, they do appear upside down when viewed from below the equator, proving that we are walking on a sphere
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You can also get weird phenomenons in the desert or other high-temperature places. Pockets of air of different rotation or heat can reflect light in such a manner that objects hangs upside down in the air instead of being behind a hill for example.\n\nNot that I've ever heard of complete suns being visible. The ice-particles can refract into bi-solars, yes, but as I recall you only see parts of the sun on each side of it. Not complete circular "suns".
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Actually our geographic north is south pole of our big earths magnet and similarly with south....\n\nActualy it is just a convention we can consider anything as north or south,..... similar to positive and negative chages.\n\nRecently scientists have found that the earth's polarity is changing, while this process is going on there will be a break down in our earth's protective magnetic field.\n\nSo cosmic radiations can through earth's atmos.....\n\nFor this stage to sttain there is around a 1000 years to go.
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Well, this is an interesting lesson in geometry, eh? Since the earth is a sphere (more or less) that rotates on an axis - the N & S points were chosen as the intersecting points for longitudinal lines of measurement - which all go back to the length of a day and segments thereof - as well as 360 degrees which were derived roughly from the concept of a 360 day year (it is actually 365+ but back in time the 360 measurement worked wonders for calculationsand thus it fit into geometry of all kinds .. including the longitudinal slices of the earth in 1 degree increments). If you chose to - you could select another two points each an oposite 90 degrees from the N and S poles (which made sense becauseof the magnetic N and the rotational axis). The other two points would be arbitrary. Somebody would have to mark those spots. A secondary longitudinal series could then overlay the primary longitudinal lines and create a kind of variable grid based on an arbitrary selection of the two secondary points. Actually ONE of those lines would lie on top of one of the primary (current) longitudianal lines and it would be a double use line or a kind of disection of hemispheres.  \nBUT\nIt would not be measuring anything very well because the secondary points are arbitrary and not related to anything else.  \nSO\nThe reason the latitude disectors came into play with their resulting grids over the face of earth'ssphere, was becuase they help measure something.  Since stars, the sun and the moon are  always - based on measured timepieces - in the same place and the same time repeatedly, you could measure the distance above the horizon to a star and figure out how far you were N or S of the equator - a halfway point from N to S.  It became easy this way to use the North Star to detect your position N or S by the angle of THAT star above the horizon becuase it was always amost right on top of the N Pole.  So the slices of LATITUDE N and S were critical to navigation. Once the clock was perfected to hold accurate time within a few seconds a month, the accuracy of E and W postion on earth relative to the stars also became possible.  If people did not need to know were they were on earth (especially ships at sea) there would have been no need for a good grid system.
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the answer is:\nyou can't face north if you are in the north pole\nthink about it
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No need to look for other universes. It is very rare when you can see a complete rainbow circle. It depends of many criteria. Latitude, weather, landscape. A friend of mine worked on an oil rig in Northern Seas and he saw a complete circle, only once in his life, all above the ocean level.
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Yeah there's no actual land up there.  And these is also a magnetic north/south poles as well as the geographical north and south poles.
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The Earth is tilted at an angle of about twenty three and a half degrees.  This is the reason why North and Magnetic poles are not at the same place.  \n\nAnyway, in the Northern winter, the North Pole is angled away from the Sun, with the South Pole therefore being angled towards the Sun.  The result is 24 hours night in the north, 24 hours day light in the south.  This is the southern summer.\nNow remember that the Earth maintains this angle throughout its orbit.\nSix months later, the Earth is on the other side of its orbit around the Sun.  Still maintaining the same tilt, now the North Pole is receiving 24 hour day light, and the South Pole is in darkness.  Northern summer, southern winter.\n\nThe Arctic and Antarctic circles mark the limit of this 24 hour daylight, and the Tropic of Cancer (North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (South) mark the limits of the maximum travel of the Sun at it appears in the northern and southern skies.\n\nAt the Spring and Autumn exquinox, the Earth is such that the Poles are receiving equal amounts of sunlight.  Equinox means "equal night".  \n\nI down know any particular websites but try the NOAA and BBC weather sites.\n\nADDITION: To Glenn Blaylock.  Thank you very much for the correction.  I'll read up on my error.
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One major reason is that more of the southern hemisphere is actually ocean, so it serves as more of a heat sink and keeps the temperatures more stable.\n\nIn addition to that, if you look a globe, you'll notice that the majority of the land in the southern hemisphere (except for Antarctica) is a lot closer to the Equator than the land in the northern hemisphere is.  On most maps you don't really notice it as much because they don't bother printing the whole strip of landless ocean and a lot of Antarctica.\n\nUpdate:  In response to itchybeard below, the Earth's perihelion (closest approach to the sun) occurs in January (this year it was January 4, at about 3 pm GMT).  Thus we are actually closer to the sun during the northern hemisphere's winter, not during the southern hemisphere's.  This would be reason why the summers in the southern hemisphere tend to be hotter than ours, but not why our winters are colder.
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People do not live AT the north Pole because it is ocean, frozen in the winter.  They live nearer to the north pole because the is land reaching towards that area from areas that are wram enough to live.  The South Pole is many hundreds of miles from the coast of Antarctica.  Antarctica is completely isolated from major land masses that are populated.  Antarctica is a high ice cover plateau which is much colder than the northern equivalent (see source FAQ for why).\n\nNo people settled in Antarctica.  However these days there are year round scientific stations in Antarctica.  At the very South Pole it would be impossible to live there without modern support infrastructure.  I've spent over 2 years at the South Pole (the actual pole!) working as a scientist.  But in some ways everyone is always just a visitor.  I have a friend that has spent over 5 years there!  He is also still a visitor.\n\nSo - South Pole is much colder.  But the actual North Pole is ocean and no one lives there either.  People live neaer the Norht Pole because it is warmer and closer to inhabited areas.\n\nDAS
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They are very rare, but I think as long as there is cold air clashing with warmer air (which can happen even in the winter), you can create conditions favorable to tornado developement. We had a severe snow storm in which we had thunder and lightning, the sky even turned slightly yellow....scary.
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I think the world is round. Have you been outside of your room even? If the world was flat, you would be flooded, he he. Why are there mountains if the world is flat? Really you can't even answer my question? Try going to the library and actually do some research. Gotta go. Rock.