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18 Dec 2024, 6:35 pm

https://www.iflscience.com/earths-magnetic-north-pole-officially-has-a-new-position-77286


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18 Dec 2024, 11:23 pm

Clearly this means we must invade Siberia to take back our North Pole. :evil:


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19 Dec 2024, 12:31 am

This happens rather frequently, less frequent is when the pole outright switches sides of the planet. This is one of the dangers of using old maps as the declination indicated may no longer be accurate.