Talk:North Pole

Astronomical north pole

We claim the following:

Astronomers define the north "geographic" pole of a planet in the solar system by the planetary pole that is in the same ecliptic hemisphere as the Earth's north pole.

This can't be right, because axial tilts greater than 90 degrees would be impossible. [NASA] defines north pole as follows here:

In astronomy, that end of the axis of rotation of a celestial body at which, when viewed from above, the body appears to rotate in a counter-clockwise direction.

This better matches what I thought the north pole was, and also explains why NASA would list the axial tilts of Uranus and Venus as 98 and 177 degrees, respectively. --Doradus 17:42, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

NASA can do as it wishes, but the [IAU] definition wins any time. Just goes to show you must be careful to define what you mean when you say something.

Urhixidur 20:22, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

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Canadian Sovereignty of the North Pole

Removed this......

Nevertheless, the North Pole of the Earth may be said to be located in Canada. However, recently, Russia and Denmark are poised to contest this point. In the mid-20th Century, Canada made an official claim to the pole; if no compelling opposition is presented by the mid-21st Century, the pole will officially be considered part of Canada.

The sector principle that Canada uses to claim waters to the north pole is very controversial. The United States in particular refuses to accept it and this.

Territorial claims to the North Pole and Arctic regions

Can somebody pleas draw a map over the clames, or publish a link. I am trying to find out where I can find a interest in conflict betwen the diferent countys. But it is impossibil, when ther is noe map over what is clamed.

Top Gear expedition

See comment at Talk:Top Gear (2002 TV series)/Archive 3#Dubious.

Fake flag image

Reuters is reporting that the images of the Russian flag planted on the seabed of the North Pole is a forgery.[1]. The forgery was first spotted by the Finish news paper Ilta-Sanomat[2]. The images is taken from the movie Titanic (1997 film)

• Was there really an image of a Russian flag being planted on the seabed in Titanic?

Semi-protected edit request on 21 August 2024

The line "In most places on Earth, local time is determined by longitude, such that the time of day is more or less synchronised to the position of the Sun in the sky (for example, at midday, the Sun is roughly at its highest). This line of reasoning fails at the North Pole, where the Sun is experienced as rising and setting only once per year, and all lines of longitude, and hence all time zones, converge. There is no permanent human presence at the North Pole and no particular time zone has been assigned. Polar expeditions may use any time zone that is convenient, such as Greenwich Mean Time, or the time zone of the country from which they departed.[citation needed]" needs a citation, and I found a reliable source here: https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/DATE/dc2ebe2b78d5e28a836f06df7c7e7f96#:~:text=There is no permanent human,country from which they departed.

Can I add the citation to the semi-protected page? TravelDailyDrop (talk) 14:48, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

 Partly done:So... it appears that the entire "time" section was a word for word copy of that proposed citation. Given that that source is the US Military, it's probably not a case of WP:CITOGEN, but who knows? Just to be on the safe side, I deleted the entire section, and replaced it with a shorter paraphrase, with the existing Science News cite. Could probably be fleshed out a bit more, but not with cut-and-paste this time. PianoDan (talk) 16:51, 21 August 2024 (UTC)