Is Iceland closer to the North Pole than New Zealand is to the South Pole?
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Icelnad is closer to the North Pole thanNew Zeland is from the South Pole because Icelnad is due 600m miles from the North Pole, while New Zeland is 800 some miles from the South Pole.
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An excellent question!\n\nSince there are no boundries in the polar regions — the Arctic is ocean and the continent of Antarctica has no nations - time zone lines follow longitude lines in these places. \n\nSince all longitude lines come together at the poles, you can walk through all of the time zones in seconds by walking around the pole that marks the South Pole. Imagine walking around the pole in the photo above on this page. \n\nThere's no North Pole pole since drifting sea ice covers the location and anything put there, such as an automated weather station, drifts away. Our story about the Christmas Day North Pole temperature has more on this. \n\nAs a practical matter, having all of the time zones means there is really no time zone for the polar regions. In Antarctica, the U.S. stations uses New Zealand time because most Americans who go to Antarctica for the U.S. Antarctic Program fly to and from there via Christchurch. \n\nOnce you arrive in New Zealand for the U.S. Antarctic Program, you could fly to Antarctica, everywhere that a U.S. airplane could take you on the continent, and back to Christchurch without ever having to change the time on your watch. \n\nSince the only station at the South Pole is the U.S. station, the time used there is New Zealand time.\n\nOther nations tend to use their home time zones in Antarctica, which makes radio and e-mail contacts simpler. \n\nThe permanent research stations in the Arctic are in countries, such as the Barrow Science Center in Barrow, Alaska, and these use the local time. When researchers venture out onto the Arctic Ocean ice, they can use any time the wish. But, in most cases it's probably easier to use the time for the institution, such as a university, that you are working for. \n\nYou can learn a lot more about what goes on in the polar regions by going to our Science, life and travel in the polar regions page
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At 840,000 square miles (2,175,590 km2), Greenland is the world's largest island.\n\nAlthough Australia also meets the definition of an island (a piece of land surrounded by water), it is large enough to be considered its own continent.
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There is more land area inthe south in Antarctica than in the north with the Arctic Ocean.
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The earth is tilted on its axis, at the winter solstice the south pole is closer to the sun and the north pole is further from it and visaversa at the summer solstice. if you are close enough to the poles in the winter months the sun never gets above the horizon and in the summer months it never gets below the horizon. the latitudes at which this phenomenon occurs are called the arctic and antarctic circles.\n\nYou are correct most of Greenland lies within the arctic circle and it does have 6 months of darkness and 6 months of daylight.
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Someday it will be.  Earth reverses its magnetic poles periodically, so one day Antarctica will be to the north.
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yup the same phenomenon is observed near the south pole, but it has a different name. it is called 'aurora australis'
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"The definition of Earth's magnetic poles depends on what is being defined. The "magnetic north/south pole" is the measured location of the vertical field lines. This is different from the "Geomagnetic north/south pole", which is the location where the best fitting dipole model pierces the surface of the Earth. While magnetic poles are not necessarily 180 degrees opposite from one another, Geomagnetic poles are exactly 180 degrees opposite from one another.\n\nThe magnetic south pole in 1990 was at 64.9 deg S 138.9deg E\n\nThe geomagnetic south pole in 1990 was 79.2 deg S 180.9 deg E "*\n\nDistance between Magnetic South Pole and Geographic South Pole (1990):    1456.8868 Statute Miles **\n\nDistance between Geomagnetic South Pole and Geographic South Pole (1990):   745.7051 Statute Miles **
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True north would be a line from your position to the geographic north pole.\n\nMagnetic north is a line between your position and the northern magnetic pole.  \n\nSince the northern magnetic pole does NOT coincide with the geographic north pole (IIRC, it is somewhere in northern Canada), there is a difference between those two lines.  The magnitude of that difference depends on precisely where on the earth you are standing when you take your measurement.\n\nThat's why, on all good topographic maps, they have an indicator of both magnetic north and true north, so you can apply the appropriate correction to navigate with a compass.  Of course, global positioning systems are making that problem a non-issue (if you can "see" the satellites . . .).
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The directional North pole of the earth is a magnetic south pole, this is because the north end of a compass points north, and opposites attract, therefore north is...south.\n\nMagnetic lines go from south to north i think, sorry havn't taken electricity/mag class in so long...\n\nanyways, if my thining is correct than it would point towards the directional south\n\ni'd choose "down"
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People do live in North Pole.   That is North Pole, Alaska
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New Zealand is a country, not a continent, comprised of a group of islands off the southern coast of Australia. It's capital is Wellington and the two main islands are North Island and South Island.
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Iceland is not really green. It has lots of areas where ice will not accumulate based on volcanic and geiser activity in those.
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The difference comes because of the tilt of our planet in space. Our planet is leaned to one side on her orbit around the Sun and around her central os. So, one of the poles (in this case the north pole) is farther away from the Sun, than is the south pole. And so is with all the areas inbetween on both sides of the equator.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Earth%2Bwobble
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In North pole of Earth there is South pole of Earth's magnet and in the South pole of Earth there is North pole of Earth's magnet.
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It's the variation between the magnetic north pole and the geographic north pole.  It varies depending on your location.
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the closest point is in Alaska. they are sister islands thought to be part of the land bridge. Little Diomede in US and Big Diomede in Russia. I think they are 17 miles apart.